FrancisChurch Shepherds Faithful Into The Planetary Capacity Regime

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Pope tees up for UN tyrants

InfoWars reports:

Officials within the UN are pushing the notion that the human population should be reduced in order to effectively combat climate change.

The long standing notion has been continually pushed by Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC). In 2013, Figueres had a conversation with Climate One founder Greg Dalton regarding “fertility rates in population,” as a contributor to climate change.

For ‘planners’ everything is a system with inputs and outputs.  Make this intervention here, and the humans will provide that targeted output there.  We are to be pushed, molded, formed, crushed.

“Obviously less people would exert less pressure on the natural resources,” Figueres answered, also noting that estimates suggest the Earth’s population will rise to nine billion by 2050.

Dalton then questioned whether that figure could in some way be stalled or halted.

“So is nine billion a forgone conclusion? That’s like baked in, done, no way to change that?” he asked Figueres.

“There is pressure in the system to go toward that; we can definitely change those, right? We can definitely change those numbers,” Figueres said in response.

Really, we should make every effort to change those numbers because we are already, today, already exceeding the planet’s planetary carrying capacity.” she also claimed.

What kind of sweeping, arrogant, ignorant statement is that?  Is the Earth some Airbus to Hell where you can only carry on one bag and a computer?  Someone told her the ‘planet’s planetary capacity’ and she believed it – and look, we’ve exceeded it already!  That must be why we have all that warming which no-one can feel or detect. Humans have already ruined the climate so humans must cease.

“So yes we should do everything possible. But we cannot fall into the very simplistic opinion of saying just by curtailing population then we’ve solved the problem. It is not either/or, it is an and/also.” the UN official also said.

There is one thing liberals never are and it’s simple.  They are always complex and complicated and we are simple. That must be why Pope Francis told us on Good Friday to:

“enter into the mystery of the empty tomb”, to “seek a deeper meaning, an answer, and not an easy one, to the questions which challenge our faith, our fidelity and our very existence.” 

Truth is so complicated it can’t even be known or believed.  To have faith is far too simple a solution.  We must always question, question, question.

That must also be why Pope Francis, author of the upcoming encyclical on the climate and sustainability, recently warned against breeding like rabbits.  I think three-children is the “number experts say is important to keep the population going,” he advised.

Why we must get this kind of moral advice from someone who has such weak discernment, who relates to UN overlords with planetary egos and systemic ignorance, I have no idea; but he’s the Pope foisted on us upon Benedict’s abdication, and we have to size up the situation for what it is.

Climate change ‘c’atholicism coming up next, you dirty rabbits.

 

 

 

 

Easter Sunday Occupiers: There’s nothing good or Catholic about liberalism and you know it’s true.

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..and you will see the awful horror (sitting) in the place where (they) should not be.

..and you will see the awful horror (sitting) in the place where it should not be.

My entire life I’ve been treated to explications on how Church teaching is neither Left nor Right, Liberal nor Conservative, neither Democrat nor truly Republican.  It’s something higher, something ‘above,’ yes?  It’s something other than, or outside politics; something of God, of theology.  That’s garbage.

There’s nothing good or Catholic about liberalism and you know it’s true.

I was presented with an Easter family discussion where someone I love reiterated how it’s so wrong to use ‘religion’ as a reason to kill.  It hurt me to have to defend the Church at the expense of this person’s ego, but unfortunately he was stuffed full of television and the New York Times, so his world was full of false facts and plied assertions.  Garbage in, garbage out: the hermit’s rule is one of a clear mind and a pure heart.

Religion is not only a reason to kill sometimes, it’s a reason for everything –  but that religion must be Catholicism.  Everything done, every choice made, has either a reason or an excuse.  This depends on whether it’s wrong or right, loving or careless, prudent or foolish. Only an atheist would try to separate reason from religion as if it were possible.

The same applies to politics because it is about power.  Liberal churchmen like to pretend there is something true and good in big government but God has nothing to do with the usurpation of rights to life, property, and family.  Such statist ideas, which you find in print, television, and in some contemporary papal encyclicals, contradict the Magisterium and the teaching of social justice heroes Leo XIII and Pius XI.  Their ideas are new, and they represent a ‘rupture’  when taken independently.

Now we’re about to be oppressed with a global warming/sustainability encyclical. Don’t pretend it’s Catholic when you see it and don’t try to massage it.  Measure it against the context of all (not simply recent) Church teaching.

In general this is a very poor era of popes who either enforce or permit a smothered, collapsing, and dysfunctional Church; a Church where ‘Catholic’ seems to mean all kinds of Protestants and heretics – people who show up on Easter like they’re doing God a favor.

Such ‘catholics’ vote liberal.  Why confuse yourself by imagining there are any good reasons to do likewise?

An NBC affiliate reports:

The church attendance differences are most stark when you look at Catholics.

Yes, Mr. Obama won the overall Catholic vote in 2012, but Mr. Romney beat the president handily among Catholics who attended church at least weekly – 57% to 42%. In fact, those figures matched exactly the margins Mr. Romney had over Mr. Obama with Protestant Christians.

But among more casual Catholics, those who attend church less than once a week, Mr. Obama defeated Mr. Romney with similar ease – 56% to 42%. (There are similar differences among protestant voters, though Mr. Romney won both regular church attendees and less-frequent churchgoers.)

The message in these numbers? There will not only be more people in the pews around this weekend in your house of worship, there will probably be a different body politic.

Those Easter-people aren’t united to the Church Militant, and unless something changes, will not be united to the Church Suffering or Triumphant. Hence, they aren’t the Church.

The Vatican will count them as Catholics, the press will trumpet their politics, the Synod on the Family will survey them, and the Pope will chase them because they are truly his people; but they aren’t Catholics.  They’re just liberals, and until we purge the Church of their ranks in the laity and the hierarchy, she will continue to wilt, and society to blacken.

To close, here is an Easter church-going family with whom Pope Francis and the U.S. Bishops find much in common.

 

Cardinal Parolin’s New World Based on Contempt for Powerful

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We need a new economic ‘system’ of nice people like me.

Apparently Pope Francis’ Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin had a public discussion/debate with the President of the Italian Senate where they spoke a lot about ‘economics‘.

The Holy See calls for a “financial system that works in service of society”, condemns “the war and all forms of nationalistic arrogance or egoism, including in its financial manifestations” and promotes “an ethical sense of responsibility on the part of big political or economic agents,” encouraging “the free and efficient participation of the poor in building their own economic dignity”. Cardinal Pietro Parolin outlined the Vatican line of action in the field of geopolitics and the social commitment of the Church in a public discussion he had with the President of the Italian Senate, Pietro Grasso during the presentation of a volume titled “Moneta e Impero” (Currency and Empire) and published by Lime, an Italian geopolitics magazine. The presentation took place at Palazzo Maffei-Marescotti, in Rome, in association with Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi.

Let’s try to unpack this nest of self-righteous and condemnatory gobbledegook.

Whenever someone tells you there’s something wrong with the system beware.  They are usually trying to put something over on you.  Isn’t a ‘financial system’ just people spending their money?  If that ‘system’ doesn’t work how will you fix it?  How is my giving someone money for something not serving society?  The only thing that can go wrong is when laws take away people’s rights to their property, thereby oppressing them.

Before Cardinal Parolin’s first line is finished, the ‘broken’ system is linked to war.  Then war is linked to nationalism, arrogance, and egoism.  Next those bad things are ‘manifested’ financially.  (This kind of talk only means something in college.)  In Parolin’s mind the new non-broken system would ‘promote’ an ethical sense of responsibility on the part of ‘big political or economic agents.’

Does a ‘system’ promote things and create an ‘ethical sense of responsibility’ or does a system rely on on laws?  Because I think what the Cardinal is dreaming of will require laws; laws that force ‘big agents’ to do something he thinks is not unethical, warlike, arrogant, egotistical, or irresponsible, and serves society.

Still running with the same sentence, Cardinal Parolin’s new system will encourage “the free and efficient participation of the poor in building their own economic dignity.”

Whenever someone considers ‘the poor’ as a group beware, because ‘the poor’ are just people who don’t have money at the moment.  If you give them money they won’t be poor any more but someone else will.  Poor is a fluid condition that varies based on effort.  If they by definition have no money, how will ‘the poor’ participate in the new ethical financial system?

Finally the bigger question for the Catholic cardinal, “When did money ever give someone dignity?” Dignity comes from God and our cooperation with his law.  If you follow Cardinal Parolin’s thinking, the Holy Family would have no dignity!

The Pope’s main collaborator pointed out the need for “an economy that is able to give life to enterprises inspired by the principle of solidarity and able to create sociality”.

What does solidarity really mean other than helping others and togetherness, and what in the world is ‘sociality?’

The cooperatives established at the end of the 19th century are to be seen as models. “They were the response to the first capitalistic globalisation” which “brought huge suffering to the people of Europe and was linked to the imperialistic disputes that led to the First World War”. Today, as was the case back then, the limit to the pact between big capital and the exercise of power is an economy “promoted by people who have nothing but the common good at heart and in their minds”.

There’s something telling here.  At the core of the cardinal’s new system are nice people!  It’s a system based on nice people.  That’s the difference.  I wonder who those people are?  Certainly Cardinal Parolin is one of them.

This bare radical formula isn’t too complicated.

People with power and money = Bad, Selfish

‘New system’ decision-makers = Nice, Caring.

It’s good to know a powerful prince of the Church has such a refined moral sense.

“Big capital tends to finance established powers and the more profitable activities”; while credit is not available to the poor.” For this reason, “taking the superior dignity of man as its starting point, the Church does not give up in the face of this state of things but perseveres in stressing the dignity of mankind.” Cardinal Parolin pointed the finger at “the rather obvious link between big finance, the exercise of power and the competition between the various centres of power”. “it is difficult to establish whether priority is given to imperial objectives or finance and both fuel each other.”

I don’t know if money drives politics or politics enables money but they both have to make way, and we in the Church are just the ones to help it because we know it’s not about money at all.  It’s about dignity, and the more of your money we quarantine, the more dignity we’re gonna spread around.