Catholic Climate Scandal: You Can Ride Horses But Not Bears

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The truth isn't complicated

The truth isn’t complicated

St. Corbinian’s Bear has some rare but much-needed common sense for Catholics today, and also for fans of Pope Francis.

How many photos of polar bears stuck on the ice in the middle of the ocean have you seen? Here’s a newsflash: polar bears live on the ice and in the sea. That’s because their food — seals — live in the same places. It’s their habitat.

Granted, polar bears are not as smart (or as good looking) as the Bear’s own species, ursus arctos, but they’re not stupid enough to swim so far out that they must pitifully die on some oversize ice cube. Where are we to believe these bears came from anyway? An ice floe that suddenly melted while they were off hunting for seals? Or, worse, global warming is happening so fast the ice is melting right under the bear’s feet!

This is agitprop. Propaganda. In a word: fake. So we must ask ourselves, why stage fake pictures that make perfectly healthy polar bears look like marooned buffoons? Because they’re lying to us big time. Climate change is a crock. Don’t believe it and don’t trust anyone who peddles it.

There’s an American kind of wisdom that’s often Protestant.  It’s derived from things like scripture, grace, family tradition, self-reliance, and living close to the land.  The more faithful American Protestants today are scandalized by our shackled and politicized Church.  They see a good Pope pressured to resign and a liberal ringer appearing his place, and they are silent.  They see feckless bishops fall in line like cards.

These Protestants don’t feel the need to rationalize, to minimize, or to spin like we do.  They look at us today and feel justified in their rejection of the Church’s authority.

We can learn from them, not to reject the Church, but to defend it by thwarting the works of it’s enemies within or without.  It’s a great mistake to try and ride the Church like a horse, and to count on the gullibility of the more faithful followers of Christ.

 

Is There a 21st Century Nazi Informing the Papal Encyclical?

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Looks can be deceiving, but they’re usually revealing

Catholic Culture reveals:

The Holy See Press Office has confirmed that Pope Francis’s second encyclical will be entitled Laudato Si (Praised Be), a reference to St. Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of the Sun.

The press office also announced the encyclical’s subtitle (“on the care of our common home”) and the names of those who will be presenting the encyclical at its June 18 release.

Joining Cardinal Peter Turkson, the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, will be Orthodox Archbishop John Zizioulas of Pergamon, who will represent the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and chairman of the German Advisory Council on Global Change.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber: This is the same ‘scientist’ who called for a maximum world population of 1 billion.  He’s said that, if global warming killed off most of the world’s billions, ‘in a very cynical way,’ we would at least have achieved balance.  He’s predicted the Earth will soon explode at current population growth rates so they must be curbed, and he’s warned German Chancellor Merkel about the greater need for ‘lebensraum,’ a term the Nazis once used for greater room to expand the master race

These are insidious causes and frightening statements to hear from one of the very few people selected advise the Vatican, and to present an encyclical from the Vicar of Christ.

 

 

Why Do Banana Republic Bishops Hate Global Warming Critics?

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Praying you'll become happy with less.

Praying you’ll become happy with less.

Pedro Biretto Jimeno, Archbishop of Huancayo, Peru is another Latin American Communist in the FrancisChurch style.  If the global warming agenda isn’t about crushing the free market with  unreasonable and suffocating worldwide taxes and regulations, then why do these faux-Catholic clerical agents keep acting like it’s all about money?

The Archbishop of Huancayo, Peru has said that Pope Francis must prepare himself for criticism following the publication of his encyclical on the environment.

Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo, Peru, told Catholic News Service: “(The encyclical) will have many critics, because they want to continue setting rules of the game in which money takes first place. We have to be prepared for those kinds of attacks.”

That’s what Marxists see as capitalism.  It’s a rigged system in which someone besides themselves is making the rules.  It’s obvious to them that since some are rich and some are poor, that the system is unfair.  Of course, these communists no nothing about serving others since most of them spend their lives shuttling from speaking engagements to catered meetings in hotels.  They are often academics or bureaucrats who’ve spent their lives pleasing superiors rather than customers.  There seem to be quite a few of them in the South American hierarchy.

The archbishop said that there would controversy once people had read the Pope’s new encyclical because resisting the “throwaway culture” by being satisfied with less means “putting money at the service of people, instead of people serving money.”

What is money, Archbishop?  Isn’t just a way for two people to help each other?  Why do you want other people’s money so much that you must condemn it?  There’s nowhere on earth that people are serving money.  It’s a tool.  If you don’t like working at McDonald’s go to school?  Live with your folks, save your money and open your own burger shack.  If you think Bill Gates is using you, don’t buy Windows.

Pope Francis’ upcoming encyclical on ecology and climate is expected to send a strong moral message – one message that could make some readers uncomfortable, some observers say.

“The encyclical will address the issue of inequality in the distribution of resources and topics such as the wasting of food and the irresponsible exploitation of nature and the consequences for people’s life and health,” Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno said.

“Pope Francis has repeatedly stated that the environment is not only an economic or political issue, but is an anthropological and ethical matter,” he said. “How can you have wealth if it comes at the expense of the suffering and death of other people and the deterioration of the environment?”

Lies on top of lies on top of lies.  How is this man an archbishop?

The encyclical is not expected to be a theological treatise or a technical document about environmental issues, but a pastoral call to change the way people use the planet’s resources so they are sufficient not only for current needs, but for future generations, observers said.

It’s not technical and it’s not theological.  That’s a relief.  We don’t have to pay attention to any faux-science or faux-theology we might find in it.  It’s only harmlessly pastoral, just like Vatican II.  So we don’t need to believe anything in it, but we damn sure better follow it like sheep!

The document “will emphasise that the option for stewardship of the environment goes hand in hand with the option for the poor,” said Carmelite Father Eduardo Agosta Scarel, a climate scientist who teaches at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina and the National University of La Plata in Buenos Aires.

If it’s an option, why do I have no choice in the matter?

“What the Pope brings to this debate is the moral dimension,” said Anthony Annett, climate change and sustainable development adviser to the Earth Institute at Columbia University and to the nonprofit Religions for Peace. “His unique way of looking at the problem, which is deeply rooted in Catholic social teaching, resonates with people all across the world.”

Are popes supposed to bring moral dimensions to debates, or are they supposed to defend moral absolutes?  If these things are debatable, then why are they treated as undeniable truths despite the fact they’re based upon one sided well-funded junk science?

“Whether you think climate change is a problem or not, you cannot deny that running out of fish, oil, water and other resources is a really big problem. The solution is a radical change in our concept of what makes a person happy. We need to move away from the idea that the more things we have, the happier we’ll be,” Kane said.

Check your things and redefine your happiness because we’re getting ready to confiscate both in the name of Christ.