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?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time to Turn Off the Francis Show and Stay Faithful

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Don't be fooled into pretending it's real

Don’t be fooled into pretending it’s real

A day ahead of Ramadan, and of the final release of the Global Warming Encyclical, we have to ask, “At what point can we recognize that the things Pope Francis writes and says are not rooted in the Catholic Faith, but are merely blanket politically correct assertions?”  Pope Francis is really more like the “Pope Francis Show” than an actual Pope, isn’t he?

When I was a boy I used to laugh at the character of Archie Bunker.  He was so funny and he was in no way a hero.    Everyone on that show seemed realistic.  They always argued.  They were poor.  All In The Family was the top program for several years.

It wasn’t until much later that I realized that the point of Archie and Edith wasn’t our entertainment.  That show was created to confuse people.  It’s goal was the transformation of our culture – and it worked.

Much more brilliant than the acting and the punch lines was the creation of the characters.  Most of the thought went into building individuals who were normal, decent, and conservative, yet foolish, selfish, undisciplined, or ignorant.  That’s hard to do.  Archie and Edith were two people who would not actually exist.  That’s the whole point of television really, to create a false world. I no longer find that show very funny.

It’s in the same spirit I believe that the world is now treated to Pope Francis.  There is a lot of thought and preparation behind the character of Francis, and his performance is executed quite well.  The Pope Francis show may seem like a clumsy bull in a china shop but it isn’t slowing, or stopping to regroup.  It doesn’t think small.  It rolls up the whole world in its carpet.

Pope Francis has invited all faithful to welcome the Encyclical on the environment, entitled “Laudato si, on the care of our common home.”

Toward the end of his weekly General Audience in St. Peter’s Square, the Holy Father launched an appeal, saying, “Tomorrow, as you know, the encyclical on the care of the ‘common home’ that is creation will be published. This common ‘home,’” Pope Francis stated,  “is being ruined and therefore hurts everyone, especially the most poor.”

Is the world our common home or our commune?  Is it being ruined?  Where?  It looks beautiful to me, except perhaps on television, in suburbia, in a mall, or in most churches.  I don’t think Pope Francis is talking about ugliness though.  He’s talking about gases and Liberation Theology.

“Therefore, I would like to launch an appeal to responsibility, based on the task which God gave to man in creation: ‘to cultivate and protect’ the ‘garden’ in which humanity has been placed.”

“I invite all to welcome with an an open spirit this document, which places itself in the line of the Church’s social doctrine.”

What is an ‘open spirit?’  Isn’t that something a Christian should avoid?  Perhaps Pope Francis means being open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit?  I think he says that a lot, but I don’t think he means it much.  Pope Francis really just wants us to be open to sets of lies.

How many times lately has the Vatican been forced to tell us this heterodox piece of propaganda is in line with the Church’s social doctrine, and before it’s even formally released?

What is the Church’s social doctrine anyway?  Isn’t it basically drawn from several somewhat conflicting encyclicals of the more recent popes?  Is that dogma?  Inasmuch as any of those letters are inconsistent with the full magisterium of the Church, they must be rejected.  Ignorance of the past is no excuse.