Crazed or just startled by the light?
After seeing how the Catholic media stepped over itself to hide the Pope’s welcome for a communist crucifix, and knowing that they have also done their best to cover the lies and heresy in the Laudato Si’ encyclical, why should it be surprising that its sinister contributors keep popping up?
Rorate Caeli reports:
The New Yorker published last week a long opinion piece (A Radical Vatican?) by Naomi Klein, a radical eco-feminist (and abortion supporter who has publicly disparaged pro-lifers) who was specifically invited by the Vatican to be one of the four speakers at a major press conference held on July 1 in the Aula Giovanni Paolo II, organized by the Holy See Press Office and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. The press conference’s goal was to introduce the international conference “People and Planet First: the Imperative to Change Course” held in the Augustinianum on July 2-3. The conference was co-hosted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace along with CIDSE, an international alliance of 17 Catholic Development Organisations; predictably it focused to a great extent on Laudato Si. Klein also served as a panelist during the conference at the Augustinianum.
“A Radical Vatican?” is noteworthy not only as an example of how secular figures that the Vatican itself considers as allies are treating the encyclical as an epochal break from Catholic tradition, but also for its passages about the theological intentions behind the encyclical. (See below; emphases ours.) Here we find Naomi Klein quoting Fr. Seán McDonagh, who is part of the “administrative team” of the ultra-liberal and theologically dissident “Association of Catholic Priests” (ACP) in Ireland — and was involved in drafting the encyclical. McDonagh’s role in drafting Laudato Si is trumpeted not just by the ACP’s website (which calls him “one of the chief advisors to the Vatican in the composition of the encylical”) but by his own congregation (the Columbans — see this) and by Vatican Radio, which not only acknowledges that he was one of the theologians consulted for the encyclical, but also chose to interview him about its importance. (Keep in mind that it is exceedingly rare for any of the actual drafters or advisors for an Encyclical to be publicly identified by official Church sources.)
Is it a shock to find a dissident ‘theologian’ guiding this unCatholic reorientation of man and nature, weakening our natural rights against the all-powerful state? Not in FrancisChurch it’s not.
Rorate goes on to make an analysis of Fr. McDonagh’s impact on the Pope’s hysterical manifesto. We should expect ‘deep change.’ Communist crucifixes are the tip of the iceberg.
We have to ask ourselves now: In FrancisChuch, with error not only holding power but reigning and having sway, and a muscled-out Pope still appearing in white; what is the relationship between a Catholic united to the true Church and Francis? What is our obligation toward this hostile coup?
Staring like silent spectators at the pillage can’t possibly be Christian.