The Vatican’s UN Observer Archbishop Silvano Tomasi is always speaking and saying UN-type things on behalf of Christ’s Church.  Why on earth does the Vatican care to inform the UN of their eager and submissive collaboration?

As the Holy See stated during the UN Climate Summit, the enjoyment of a sustainable environment is an issue of justice, respect and equity. Environmental degradation can and does adversely affect the “enjoyment of a broad range of human rights.”[1] The Human Rights Council itself has stated, “environmental damage can have negative implications, both direct and indirect, for the effective enjoyment of human rights.”[2]

Climate change must be true despite the absence of evidence because if it weren’t then they wouldn’t need the FrancisVatican to step in and lend their depleted credibility to try and attach various forms of ‘justice’ to it.

These situations must be approached from the perspective of the principle common and distributive justice. Contributive justice in the sense that all shall contribute according to their financial and technological possibilities; distributive justice, in order to provide to each country the know-how as well as the possibility to develop, to produce goods and to deliver services. Reparative justice implies that those who have benefited more from the use of natural resources, and having thus damaged the environment more, have a special duty to work for its restoration and care.

I learned yesterday that my Alma Mater is now offering a Masters degree in Social Justice.  I suppose they will teach people to sub-divide social justice into billions of categories; one for every dollar’s worth of someone else’s property.

Let’s face it. Christ’s work of redemption is done. We’re all going to Heaven as long as we’re liberals, so lets’ get busy trying to make ourselves more comfortable while we’re alive. Does it seem like it’s getting hotter in here to you?

The human rights obligations relating to the environment also include substantive obligations to adopt legal and institutional frameworks that protect against environmental damage that would interfere with the enjoyment of human rights, including harm caused by private actors. As my Delegation has already stated in the intervention on Transnational Corporations, we reiterate our call to protect human rights from environmental harm. States have to strike a balance between environmental protection and other legitimate societal interests. But the balance should be reasonable and not result in unjustified and foreseeable infringements of human rights.

That’s quite specific, bringing in the human factor and all.  “Wait a minute, speaking on behalf of the Church I’d like to say don’t forget to think about humans, OK, and while you’re at it be sure to increase costs and restrictions on those ‘private actors,’ whatever unfortunate creatures they turn out to be.”

It seems that the forces that be are not content to let Vox Cantoris’s apparent reprieve from the Vatican’s Fr. Thomas Rosica stand.  Is there ever an end to punishment for those who cross liberals?

The National Catholic Register which can join the “Reporter” in the fish-wrap category has a comment in its post regarding the recent situation and the lifting of the threat of a lawsuit which was apparently never real in the first place, it was all just a little game.

Why is a Catholic journal of great respect and owned by EWTN allowing an anonymous comment of “Francis Pope” in the combox that contains nothing but calumny, slander, character assassination and defamation?

If you think that I’m peeved now, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

I demand its removal, a retraction and a public apology!

Under the pseudonym FrancesPope at the Register, a commenter wrote:

David is no martyr. He’s been brazenly libelling people for years; and we’re not just talking of people like Fr. Rosica. He’s written tirades in his blogs against people who were formally his friends, kids at least 3 decades younger than he. He’s even lashed out at others in the traditionalist movement here in Toronto and undermined their efforts when they’ve organized Solemn Masses on Holy Days at churches that haven’t so much as smelt incense in 40 years.

This man was a ticking time bomb. It was only a matter of time. If Rosica pursues this and decides to reach out to other people David’s libelled it could get interesting. And it would be his own doing.

I’ve been reading comments on the traditional Catholic blogosphere giving David all kinds of advice from “hiring a canon lawyer” to suggestions of writing to our archbishop or even writing to the pope. Some are painting this as some vast conspiracy instigated by Francis to silence blogs that he doesn’t like. With respect, Francis is likely busier smoking a big big spliff with Rabbi Skorka and Msgr. Ricca in a heated jacuzzi in Sanctae Marthae than following bloggers of the likes of Domet. All this support from clueless people who don’t even know him just feeds the beast that is David’s ego at the expense of more sober thought.

Rosica has a good prima facie case for libel. This is true not because the judges are bad or the system is corrupt or because Canada is an awful, hedonistic, sodomitic, anti-Catholic country. If Mars were a common law jurisdiction, David would be in trouble there too. Considering all the facts, should he issue a retraction, remove the objectionable posts and escape this with his finances in order, his roof over his head and not facing [redacted] it’ll be because of Fr. Rosica’s goodness. But knowing David, he won’t do that. Facts and laws be damned. David is always right, you see”

CruxMag has the official line on Vatican Press Office’s Fr. Thomas Rosica’s capitulation on his legal threats against a Canadian blogger. First we must be clear that Father neither works for nor represents the Vatican.

Despite a frenzy in the conservative Catholic blogosphere, a high-profile priest who volunteers as an English-language assistant to the Vatican press office says he’s not planning to take legal action against a Canadian blogger who had criticized him, and considers the matter closed.

The Rev. Thomas Rosica, also a Canadian, said Wednesday he never planned to sue the blogger, and also insisted that he’s not a “high-ranking Vatican official” and hence there was never any prospect of the Vatican taking action.

Crux’s Ines San Martin writes:

On Wednesday, Rosica released a statement saying he had only responded “as an individual and in no institutional capacity to the Vatican or to my place of work, to the continuous false, [and] slanderous statements of the blogger.”

“It was never my intention to sue, but rather to issue a letter to ‘cease and desist’ the frivolous calumny,” the statement said.

That frightening letter sure sounded like it was his intention to sue. To her credit San Martin gives a good recap of beseiged blogger Vox Cantoris’ line on Fr. Rosica:

Through Vox Cantoris, Domet also has questioned the legitimacy of Francis’ papacy and described last October’s Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family as a “New-age laity psycho-babble.”

In the wake of the synod, Domet accused Rosica, who helped the Vatican’s press office as a spokesman and translator for English- and French-speaking journalists, of “manipulating” the synod and the press coverage.

Donet wrote that Rosica was lobbying for changing Church teaching through “stealth, by the change of practice under the guise that which is considered pastoral.”

One gets the impression that the writer may not think those assertions ring true. After covering Cardinal Burke’s helpful indirect defense of the Vox Cantoris last week, she closes with the not-high-level Rosica’s high-handed condemnation of bloggers who won’t tow their establishment line. You know, those jerks.

Popes Benedict XVI and Francis have taught clearly that the Internet and blogs can be of tremendous service to the building up of the Church and of humanity,” Rosica’s statement said. “They have never taught that blogs and social media should be used, in the name of fidelity, to engender slander, hatred, reviling and destroying.”

Rosica also said that those in the Catholic blogsphere who have contributed to spreading the faith and defending all that is good and beautiful about it and the Church should be congratulated and encouraged.

“Others have chosen to turn the blogosphere into a black hole of vitriol, anger and profound sadness,” he said. “As Catholics, the great privilege and freedom of expression and access to social media also has certain obligations of decency, integrity, honest and charity that reveal who we really are.”

Talk about a ‘black hole of vitriol!’ How many ways can one insult the free Catholic press, Fr. Rosica? It’s a privilege to speak is it? Who grants it? It’s an obligation to say what you permit? This all still sounds threatening.

Intimidating, smearing, and attacking honest faithful Catholics won’t make you one of them. How long will you pretend?