Posted on 07/18/2015 5:32:12 PM PDT by markomalley
This Pope’s actions could cause a major schism.
The Pope’s opinion on “climate change” is no less valid than mine.And no more valid.
IMO the schism's been present among Catholics for a very long time. It's just now manifesting itself.
+1 on Pell
As a practicing Roman Catholic I feel I need to remind everyone that this institution has had all kinds of bad popes and when they forget the admonition My Kingdom Is Not Of This World” .This church gets into all sorts of trouble. But survives.
These meandering homilys of This pope on temporal matters diffuse any theologic message Pope Francis offers. Snowballs should be thrown at those pointy hat supporters of his as well as opposition clearly expressed to those meanderings on any visit Francis may make here.
Nah. If there's one thing we've learned from the liberals in the Church, it's that you can ignore the Pope and still be a Catholic in good standing.
How many chaplains can the Pope appoint for the Sovereign Military Order of Malta?
Scriptures trump mans often misguided reasoning imo. And regarding climate issues God assured us in Genesis 8:22 that cold and heat, summer and winter would never cease for as long as the earth endures.
Don Bergoglio?
lol
That's a wonderful quote but a non-sequitur in this context, because it doesn't address climate change one way or the other.
You could have colder cold and heat, or warmer cold and heat. I mean, Murmansk Russia and Havana, Cuba both have "cold and heat, summer and winter" but it's a lot different in Murmansk than in Havana. Even during Ice Ages (which is most of our geologic history) there were, and will be, "cold and heat, summer and winter".
I myself (full disclosure) am an advocate of higher CO2--- quadruple it to 1600 ppm is my preference --- AND higher average temps (by a couple of degrees C), by the way, since it would have a hugely positive effect on the greening of the planet.
I guess the church didn’t learn its lesson when it was on the wrong side of heliocentrism. Now Frankie the idiot pope is going to steer the church to the wrong side of the climate change debate.
This Pope appears to suffer a kind of Cassandra complex. He is infallible in matters of faith and morals, but he has no idea of the difference between faith and morals, versus science and economics.
Note here that he is talking about the technical aspects of scientific matters (e.g. What is the best treatment for lung cancer? What is the most efficient way of producing ethanol? etc.) and not the moral aspects of scientific matters (e.g. Is in vitro fertilization permissible?). The latter is certainly within the Church's area of competence and it can and should pronounce on it, whereas the former is not.
Thus, a statement such as "Increased use of air conditioners is causing global warming" would be a technical issue and beyond the Church's competence to evaluate.
The Popes main job, imo, is to help fulfill Jesus' Great Commission of Matthew 28:19-20.
Given Genesis 8:22, let God deal with the climate as He always has.
I remember Dr. Kevorkian talking about how poisoning people was “a MEDICAL issue, not a LEGAL issue.”
And people bought it.
I was waiting for the day that a butcher cut up his wife, USING THE TOOLS OF HIS TRADE, and when arrested, said, “This is a BUTCHERING issue, not a LEGAL issue.”
First let's do a trial run on another planet. Let's terraform Mars.
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