[NYer]

Catholic ping!

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, the same kind of thing happens all the time around here. ;') Thanks NYer.

[JimSEA]

It’s notable that there is no general theory of climate change. There are several articles attacking something called “a general theory of climate change denial” which end up being attacks on capitalism. This pope is also committed to destroying capitalism.

[onedoug]

This Pope is an advocate of Liberation Theology which turns everything spiritual into the political as well, to the effect that he sticks his nose into fields of which he knows absolutely nothing, but would dictate to us all about them anyway.

[marshmallow]

An A+ for Fr. Rutler.

He summarizes succintly in essentially two main points, the problem here;

1) This is mission overreach to an area into which the papal charism does not extend.

2) Given the current crises which face Christendom (Islamic persecution, the destruction of marriage, the disregard for the unborn, etc), is the subject of ecological and climatic conservation really the area where guidance is most needed?

[CharlesOConnell]

Galileo really helped his case when he put the words of the pope in the mouth of his character Simplicius, "Fool".

[Heart-Rest]

While the Holy Father has spoken eloquently about the present genocide of Christians in the Middle East, those who calculate priorities would have hoped for an encyclical about this fierce persecution, surpassing that of the emperor Decius. Pictures of martyrs being beheaded, gingerly filed away by the media, give the impression that their last concern on earth was not climate fluctuations.

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Fr. Rutler subtly and correctly points out that an encyclical condemning the despicable evils being perpatrated by ISIS Muslims right now would seem to be far more compelling and urgently pressing than this tired but radically leftist, (though modulated) rant about the still unsettled science of "climate change", which we just got from Pope Francis today.

(To keep things in a balanced perspective, I always like to review the following video, whenever a leftist goes off on another climate change rant.)

"How the Global Warming Scare Began" (John Coleman)

[Gerish]

I’m shaking my head and rolling my eyes over this Pope. God Bless him, but of all things to write an encyclical on he picks climate change. Very sad and disappointing, especially with such diabolical attacks on the family and Christians these days.

[Tee Em]

“Moreover, if all this is sinful, it cannot be excused in the way that one sees it being done, under the erroneous pretext that the seemingly shocking affirmations in one place are further developed along orthodox lines in other places, and even in yet other places corrected; as if allowing for the possibility of either affirming or denying the statement, or of leaving it up to the personal inclinations of the individual – such has always been the fraudulent and daring method used by innovators to establish error. It allows for both the possibility of promoting error and of excusing it.
“It is as if the innovators pretended that they always intended to present the alternative passages, especially to those of simple faith who eventually come to know only some part of the conclusions of such discussions which are published in the common language for everyone’s use. Or again, as if the same faithful had the ability on examining such documents to judge such matters for themselves without getting confused and avoiding all risk of error. It is a most reprehensible technique for the insinuation of doctrinal errors and one condemned long ago by our predecessor Saint Celestine who found it used in the writings of Nestorius, Bishop of Constantinople, and which he exposed in order to condemn it with the greatest possible severity. Once these texts were examined carefully, the impostor was exposed and confounded, for he expressed himself in a plethora of words, mixing true things with others that were obscure; mixing at times one with the other in such a way that he was also able to confess those things which were denied while at the same time possessing a basis for denying those very sentences which he confessed.
“In order to expose such snares, something which becomes necessary with a certain frequency in every century, no other method is required than the following: WHENEVER IT BECOMES NECESSARY TO EXPOSE STATEMENTS WHICH DISGUISE SOME SUSPECTED ERROR OR DANGER UNDER THE VEIL OF AMBIGUITY, ONE MUST DENOUNCE THE PERVERSE MEANING UNDER WHICH THE ERROR OPPOSED TO CATHOLIC TRUTH IS CAMOUFLAGED.”

[Zionist Conspirator]

I assume the title is a reference to the Galileo case, which allegedly taught the church that G-d can speak only about "spiritual" things and has no competency on more mundane matters.

That seems to have been the incident that turned the Catholic Church into idolators of science.