Posted on 06/19/2015 6:10:03 AM PDT by tioga
The Vatican reprimanded Republican presidential hopefuls, including Jeb Bush and Rick Santorum, for their reluctance to listen to Pope Francis on climate change.
I think he might be the second coming of Karl Marx.
The Pope is badly misinformed, as is about half the population of the developed world.
Just as predicted, the encyclical is being used as a weapon for Leftist aims.
In my opinion, the pope’s partisan political activism should also make the tax exempt status of the Catholic Church in the United States ‘fair game’.
I bet he’ll shut up fast if congress introduces a bill to take that away.
The problem is who the pope is listening.
Francis is the first and only Pope that has been against the Magisterium of the Church on the constant condemnation of communism and opened the doors of the Vatican to the theologians who corrupted the Gospels with the doctrine of Marx. Most importantly, the Pope has backed his words with actions. During his visit to Brazil in 2013, the Pope held meetings with Liberation Theologians on preparing a new doctrine for the church.
By the fruits you will know the tree, by their advisers you will know the leaders.
Pope Francis is more radical and dangerous than Obama. As soon as he took power he rescued from the trash bin of History the Marxist liberation theology after was proscribed by John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Francis called the most radical of its leaders, Leonardo Boff, who was silenced by H.H. Pope John Paul II, as one of his adviser for his encyclical that tries to give moral support to the global warming hoax, but instead Francis destroys his credibility and demeans the respect for the Catholic Church.
“Socialist societies are very ethical, clean, physically and morally. If it weren’t for his materialist doctrine it could be argued that they carried out the ethical teaching of the social doctrine of the Church.” Leonardo Boff on his return from a trip to Moscow, cfr.ABC, 16-VII-87, p.45
“The national planning of the Society of Jesus in the United States should, following the example of China, become an international planning. Towards the convergence of problems in all areas of the world around a single theme: the construction in different times and forms of a world Communist society.” Strategic document of a group of Dutch Jesuits - in collaboration with other Jesuit revolutionaries—published for internal debate in the official journal of the society of Jesus in the United States, National Jesuit News, April 1972.
Another of Francis’ top advisers is German Prof. John Schellnhuber, a well-known Malthusian and climate radical.
Francis rescued Marxist liberation theology from the trash bin of history, now he wants to exhume Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
In Pope Francis’ call for a “bold cultural revolution” to confront climate change, he is using classic Marxist terms (Mao’s Cultural Revolution and Marxist liberation theology) to promote a political agenda aimed toward the advance of “collectivism, redistribution of wealth, and global government.”
First of all, Bush and Santorum were completely correct. The Pope’s teaching authority does not extend to science or economics. And, on top of that, he has endorsed a HOAX.
The Pope deliberately appointed McElroy Archbishop of San Diego, when McElroy was FAMOUS for an article in 2006 insisting on Communion-for-Pelosi.
Under Bergoglio and his thugs, the Vatican is an out-of-control banana republic. Actually responding to Bush and Santorum’s comments is really low-rent.
Beau Biden’s funeral had THREE bishops. The local bishop, Malooly, Cardinal McCarrick (his principal official duty is slobbering on the coffins of dead pro-abortion Catholics), and the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Vigano.
Next to Planned Parenthood, the pro-life movement’s most powerful enemies are Catholic bishops.
The fish stinks at the head.
This Pope is ‘of the world’ ...
Does this clown have any idea the damage he’s doing to his own religion? Or is this the intended purpose?
If one truly did believe the sky was falling and that man could stop it, then it would be viewed as faithful and moral to do the things that would stop it.
The problem is that the notion that this is happening, is a blasphemy on the promises and character of God. And this blasphemy is getting traction among all segments of Christendom. Whatever the extent and cataclysmic history of this mudball before it got populated with humanity, God has promised certain things about how it shall keep up.
I have to hand something to the YEC folks, I am not sure their science is always good, but their faith has them grinning at the folly that this lack of faith has wrought.
Well, that's an easy fix...just convert Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson to the Catholic faith...
We all know Black Church's are except from the IRS rules when preaching from the pulpit...
They fit right in with their Marxist political views...
When JFK was campaigning, Democrats feared that Protestants would not vote for a Catholic because they did not want to put the Vatican in charge of the US. In response to that fear, JFK said “I do not speak for the Catholic Church on issues of public policy, and no one in that Church speaks for me”. Americans believed him, elected him, and such fears were mostly put to rest.
But if statements like this from the Vatican continue, then Catholic presidential nominees will find themselves in the uncomfortable position of disavowing the Pope’s blatant attempts to use the Catholicism of some of our elected officials to control certain US policies - especially those that have a very dubious scriptural basis, such as global warming.
Right. Pope will just reinforce old-time prejudices against Catholic politicians if they don’t proclaim their independence, like JFK.
Well, I certainly expected it. I just feel bad for all the good Catholics desperately trying to “explain” it.
Somebody did a “word cloud” of the encyclical. This is something where a computer analyzes a text and produces a “cloud” of the different keywords in it, with the most frequently used being in a larger font and the more rarely used dwindling down in size proportionate to their use.
The biggest words were “human” and “world;” one of the smallest words was “Jesus.”
The Pope is listening to the people he has picked personally and in many cases even brought to live at the Vatican, where they can whisper in his ear. And he picked them in consonance with his wacky beliefs, so he is listening only to what he wants to hear.
The problem with the Pope, is he doesn’t believe in God, he believes in the Church as a Political Organization of the people on the earthly plane and not as a sanctuary and monument to lead people to spiritual salvation.
Actually, in my opinion, it’s MUCH more likely that the guy claiming to be Pope, is a freemason.
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