How long to “wean” the corn farmers off this handout?? Years?
We are talking about using food for fuel here. End the absurdity and use oil, coal and nuclear. Now.
How long to “wean” the corn farmers off this handout?? Years?
We are talking about using food for fuel here. End the absurdity and use oil, coal and nuclear. Now.
Interesting opening - the soft (majority?) “center” of bishops who fail to speak up. Why, they’re non-confrontational; that’s how many of them advanced as churchmen.
He had “forgotten it” ? Why it was so long ago and, besides, he probably writes lots of letters to His Holiness!!
This really begs credulity unless senility is setting in.
Hey Rod, If the Catholic bishops spoke up with respect to their nominally “Catholic” pro-abortion constituents, wouldn’t there be a different political complexion here?
Your posts are usually excellent but you’ve got this wrong. The head of the Knights of Malta is its Grand Master, originally from Britain, now living in Rome, vigorously traveling; Cardinal Burke is the Cardinal Patronus.
Excellent summary on the failure of the bishops to lead.
As the Apostle Paul put it in 1 Corinthians, “If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?”
You did the best you could and it was respectfully done. This paper (hesitating to call it an encyclical) has all the earmarks of a committee product with its internal inconsistencies — both substantively and in style. The Pope told us it was Turkson’s “team” on the first draft and, later, unnamed theologians on the third draft. Color coding? Not a bad idea; you could have colors for The Good, the Bad, and the Silly.
Overall the document is clearly buying into man-made global warming and in the background are the themes of liberation theology. The hands are the hands of Francis but the voice is the voice of Leonardo Boff (e.g., the “cry of the earth” is in the title of one of Boff’s books). This paper cites the Rio conference of 1992: that’s where they sang, “Were You There When the Crucified the Earth?”