Al Gore Moment: When Peter Fails, Look to the Church

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Where is our Church?

Where is our Church?

St. Corbinian’s Bear has the best, and most optimistic, piece of analysis on the impending 200-page rant that is ‘Laudato Sii.’

We may be witnessing the high water mark of Pope Francis. The Bear has a feeling it’s downhill from here.

Why would the Bear say such a ridiculous thing now, of all times? The whole world has turned its gaze toward the Man in White.

First of all, what does he bring to the party, if it is permissible to put it like that? The only so-called science will be second-hand. Nothing new here. It’s not like he’s an expert in the field. The people who have been impressed with the climate change pseudologia fantastica thus far will continue to believe, and those who don’t, won’t. How many people do you think will really say, “Oh the Pope has come out on the subject of global warming, so I’m going to change my mind! Honestly, the Bear doesn’t think it will be very many.

The Bear does not expect many to actually read a 200-page encyclical. Sorry, but that’s the price you pay for writing a 200-page encyclical. The juiciest parts will be cherry-picked by talking heads. The shelf-life will be mercilessly short. The Bear does not expect this to have legs.

The release of the encyclical gives those playing along with global warming an opportunity to talk about it, and even do so in moral terms, which the encyclical will certainly include. And the climate realists will also get to sound off. Again, no big change. In order to be impressed by the moral implications of a scientific theory, one must be persuaded by the science.

Catholics will not change their minds. Expect liberal Catholics to bring up Humanae Vitae inappropriately, and type the phrase “cafeteria Catholic” a lot. The Bear does not recommend engaging them because they’re not really listening to your reasoned explanation.

The Bear believes it is unfortunate for a pope who is already suspect in some ways in the minds of many, to so unambiguously align himself with a goofy political fad and all its hangers on. The Bear’s theory is that global warming “ticks all the right boxes” for the Pope, economically and politically. He was powerless to resist. That’s about the most you can say.

Pope Francis is as at the height of his power as Pope, and perhaps at the height of his celebrity, too (if there is a difference). The Bear would say, were we talking about a secular figure, it’s all downhill from here.

When’s the last time you heard of Al Gore?

The liberals are expecting a re-alignment with Pope Francis.  They had already captured most of the powerful Catholic institutions and at least half the clergy, but with Francis they expect more.  They seem to think that a certain amount faithful Catholics, who have up till now been conservative, will now tumble over to their side.  After all, they have the papacy.

I don’t think that is going to happen and it shouldn’t.  What should happen is that faithful Catholics learn to distinguish themselves from the official Church whenever and wherever it is less than Catholic.  We hear time and again about how many Catholics are running for office, how many Catholics believe in global warming, how many want gay marriage, and how many go to Church once a month.  These people aren’t Catholics.

After all the true Church militant, which exists in God’s eyes, is not filled with heretics.  The Church that God sees is the real Church and we should treat it as such.  No more honor for anything but!

 

 

 

Saint Joe Biden is a ‘Laudato Sii’ Expert

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On the good side, yes?

The world is so confusing and there’s always a new twist.  It’s hard to discern truth from lies in a fog of liberal spin and manipulation.  There’s one reality that always betrays the truth though.  Liberals play for the same team.

This is because liberals play to win.  Like Our Lord told the Pharisees about a house divided, there’s no disorder on the bad side.

For God’s sake, look at the Pope’s team!

Vice President Biden issued a sweeping endorsement Tuesday of Pope Francis a day after publication of the Vatican’s draft encyclical on climate change, saying of the pontiff, “We have a good one now.”

Biden, the first White House official to comment on the leaked draft, credited the pope for helping to move public opinion on a problem that both the church and the Obama administration have sought to frame as a moral issue.

The remarks came during a speech that was Biden’s first public appearance since the funeral services for his son, Beau Biden.

“There’s a consensus growing,” Biden said, after quoting from media coverage of the leaked encyclical, the official version of which is due to be issued Thursday. “This doesn’t only have a moral component to it. It has a security component to it, as well as an economic component.”

The White House had declined Monday to respond to the leaked draft, in which the Vatican accepts the scientific consensus linking human activity to global warming and calls on the world’s wealthy nations to reduce consumption and cut back on the use of fossil fuels. The draft document chastises climate-change deniers and says the “poor and the Earth are shouting” for action on addressing the causes of warming.

Biden, addressing a White House-sponsored forum on clean-energy investment, noted the recent activism on climate change by a wide range of religious communities, “from leading evangelicals … to the pope.”

“I’m a practicing Catholic. I always joke — they say, ‘Why am I a practicing Catholic?’ I say, ‘Because of the nuns and Jesuits,’ ” Biden said. Then he added, referring to the church’s first Jesuit pope: “We have a good one now.”

Biden went on to read excerpts from an article about the leaked draft from The Washington Post, which in a verbal slip, he referred to as “The Washington Pope.”

“Post. Pope, heh,” he said, correcting the error.  “They sometimes think they’re ‘pope.’ ”

Echoing several of the draft encyclical’s themes, Biden warned that the world was rapidly approaching a “point of no return” for preventing severe impacts from climate change, and he berated members of Congress and climate-change skeptics for blocking progress on reducing greenhouse gases. At Tuesday’s forum, the White House announced several initiatives designed to encourage private investment in technology to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

“It’s not only the morally right thing to do, it’s also a smart economic play,” said Biden, describing climate change as the “single-most important” challenge facing the administration.

It’s morally right to lean on businesses or to pour more confiscated money into green slush funds. The Pope is in league with thugs.

Joe Biden has spent his entire life ignoring popes and smearing Catholics.  Now he’s a pope wonk, ‘echoing themes’ and outlining ‘components’ of encyclicals!

 

Laudato Sii: Close Your Eyes, Empty Your Heart, and Pin Down Your Brain, Oh Catholic!

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Take your medicine. It's good for you.

Take your medicine. It’s good for you.

The world renowned ‘conservative’ Princeton Catholic, Robert George, has published a statement in advance of the Pope’s Global Warming Encyclical.  It represents the sort of willful blindness of which atheists accuse Christians.

As we await the papal encyclical that will be published this week, my plea to Catholic friends is to receive it in a spirit of willingness to listen and to be taught by the Holy Father. Do not approach it by simply looking for what one agrees with or disagrees with on matters of climate science or anything else.

One should always listen unless one wants to be deaf, but to be taught one must use discernment, discretion.  One must consider the source.  This is just wisdom, reason.  One would hope to agree with the truth and disagree with falsehood.  Must we suspend those criteria for papal letters Dr. George?

The gift of the papal magisterium to us, the faithful, is just that: a gift–a charism. We are to receive it as such.

Is ‘Laudato Sii’ a gift from God or from Pope Francis?  Can such a ‘gift’ be both?  What if this particular gift were a ticking time bomb or a syringe filled with poison?  How should we receive it then?

We can, and no doubt each of us will, appreciate the fact that different teachings or aspects of the teaching contained in the document will be proposed at different levels of authority. That is virtually always true of teaching instruments of this sort. But there will be plenty of time to sort all that out. It should NOT be our first priority. Our first priority should be to open ourselves to learning what is to be learned from the Holy Father’s reflections on the physical and moral ecology in the context of the Church’s witness to, and proclamation of, the Gospel.

How is it that Dr. George understands what our priorities of thinking should be?  How can we approach the Global Warming Encyclical without considering its level of authority?  If, as Catholics, we are now forced to believe monsterous, destructive, and oppressive lies, we must know, yes?  Why is it that liberals always want to tell you not only what to think but how, and where you must close your eyes to reality?

We are about to hear the voice of Peter. Our first and most important task is to listen attentively and with open-hearted willingness to be taught.

The arrogance of these brainiacs is astounding.  What do they know about hearts anyway?  I’ve never had an open heart in my life.  It still works.

Oh most Holy Pope Francis.  I shall be attentive to your Joe Biden Theology.  I shall open my heart with willingness!  Oh teach me!

Is this truly our Faith?