Catholic Climate Scandal: You Can Ride Horses But Not Bears

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The truth isn't complicated

The truth isn’t complicated

St. Corbinian’s Bear has some rare but much-needed common sense for Catholics today, and also for fans of Pope Francis.

How many photos of polar bears stuck on the ice in the middle of the ocean have you seen? Here’s a newsflash: polar bears live on the ice and in the sea. That’s because their food — seals — live in the same places. It’s their habitat.

Granted, polar bears are not as smart (or as good looking) as the Bear’s own species, ursus arctos, but they’re not stupid enough to swim so far out that they must pitifully die on some oversize ice cube. Where are we to believe these bears came from anyway? An ice floe that suddenly melted while they were off hunting for seals? Or, worse, global warming is happening so fast the ice is melting right under the bear’s feet!

This is agitprop. Propaganda. In a word: fake. So we must ask ourselves, why stage fake pictures that make perfectly healthy polar bears look like marooned buffoons? Because they’re lying to us big time. Climate change is a crock. Don’t believe it and don’t trust anyone who peddles it.

There’s an American kind of wisdom that’s often Protestant.  It’s derived from things like scripture, grace, family tradition, self-reliance, and living close to the land.  The more faithful American Protestants today are scandalized by our shackled and politicized Church.  They see a good Pope pressured to resign and a liberal ringer appearing his place, and they are silent.  They see feckless bishops fall in line like cards.

These Protestants don’t feel the need to rationalize, to minimize, or to spin like we do.  They look at us today and feel justified in their rejection of the Church’s authority.

We can learn from them, not to reject the Church, but to defend it by thwarting the works of it’s enemies within or without.  It’s a great mistake to try and ride the Church like a horse, and to count on the gullibility of the more faithful followers of Christ.

 

Is There a 21st Century Nazi Informing the Papal Encyclical?

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Looks can be deceiving, but they’re usually revealing

Catholic Culture reveals:

The Holy See Press Office has confirmed that Pope Francis’s second encyclical will be entitled Laudato Si (Praised Be), a reference to St. Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of the Sun.

The press office also announced the encyclical’s subtitle (“on the care of our common home”) and the names of those who will be presenting the encyclical at its June 18 release.

Joining Cardinal Peter Turkson, the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, will be Orthodox Archbishop John Zizioulas of Pergamon, who will represent the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and chairman of the German Advisory Council on Global Change.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber: This is the same ‘scientist’ who called for a maximum world population of 1 billion.  He’s said that, if global warming killed off most of the world’s billions, ‘in a very cynical way,’ we would at least have achieved balance.  He’s predicted the Earth will soon explode at current population growth rates so they must be curbed, and he’s warned German Chancellor Merkel about the greater need for ‘lebensraum,’ a term the Nazis once used for greater room to expand the master race

These are insidious causes and frightening statements to hear from one of the very few people selected advise the Vatican, and to present an encyclical from the Vicar of Christ.

 

 

Not Buying the Jubilee Year of FrancisMercy Hype

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See how Our Francis loves old ladies, Hispanic kids on crutches, Native American girls with broken arms, and construction women!

I was immediately taken aback at the announcement of a Pope Francis Jubilee Year of Mercy.  Francis has never been about mercy.  He’s about license.

I was happy to celebrate the Year 2000 jubilee because I was proud and amazed at our Church’s history, but I knew this time Pope Francis was just milking the tradition, breaking ancient protocols for which he cares nothing, and abusing the faithful for his own radical schemes.

The FrancisVatican employs cream of the crop secular PR consultants.  These brainiacs toss Church devotions, traditions, papal events around like cards, commiserating for an angle to ply their new FrancisChurch agendas.  Don’t look for any Jesus PR though.  Francis PR implies Jesus PR. It would be redundant.

In Rome apparently, the year 2000 jubilee was less than penitential anyway and many in Italy can see through the charade.

Eponymous Flower has the translation.

The Italian journalist Antonio Margheriti Mastino wrote on his website papalepapale: ” Some time ago, a well-known, hypochondriacal Cardinal, perhaps under a permanent state of fear of suffering caused by the psychosis, had said in private that the IOR [Vatican bank]  was in  very poor condition and that it was only a matter of months until it breaks down. Was that exaggeration? Possibly. However, this is not the first time that similar financial situations have occurred and the Holy See has often reacted to it with an extraordinary anniversary. By this he meant that such a generous offer had been made, that could  avoid through repentance and conversion,  to reduce the budget deficit.  Nevertheless, Antonio Mastino continued, “it is a fact that the last remoarseful Jubilee did not earn   much and they had bet all on extensive media coverage. To those, like me,  who live in Rome and experience it live, it seemed like a kind of giant fairground, where all sense of boundaries had gone and in the general penance was the last thing on the minds of the participants which took place in all of  2000. This was so bad that Cardinal Ratzinger raised his eyes to heaven glancing at this psychedelic program of the jubilee  and resignedly said, once every 25 years, okay … but no more ‘ .”

On March 15, the Italian journalist Antonio Socci asked on his site antoniosocci: “Will the Holy Year, which has just been announced be centered, as the previous, on  Jesus Christ or will it be centered  on Pope Bergoglio? … The jubilee years have always been related  since the First in 1300 on dates that had to do with the birth and death of Jesus Christ; including the (very rare) Extraordinary anniversaries. The anniversary year in 2016 is the first anniversary in the history of the Church that is not centered around a historical event of Jesus Christ during his earthly life. Because they needed a reason to convene it in 2016, Bergoglio decided that it should take place on the 50th anniversary of the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council. But what’s this? For an anniversary?  There was never an anniversary year for a council. Moreover, the Second Vatican Council ended in 1965, not in 1966 and therefore they will not celebrate the 50th, but the 51st anniversary of the conclusion of the 21st Council of the Church.

Therefore, this is an excuse, which is more than any other ideological and self-referential, because the anniversary year refers to a church event, rather than on Christ. (When we look at similar events in the history of the church, you could organize a Holy Year every year.)

Self-Referential!  How can he say that?

Hey, did you see any of this great new gear you can pick up before the Philly FrancisVisit?