{"id":3872,"date":"2015-07-08T16:24:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T20:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2015-07-08T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T20:24:27","slug":"get-out-your-notepad-francischurch-is-a-font-of-new-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=3872","title":{"rendered":"Get Out Your Notepad.  FrancisChurch is a Font of New Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3908\" style=\"width: 563px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/francis-car3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3908\" class=\" wp-image-3908\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/francis-car3.jpg?resize=553%2C402\" alt=\"No sinners here in this car!\" width=\"553\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/francis-car3.jpg?w=634&amp;ssl=1 634w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/francis-car3.jpg?resize=300%2C218&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No sinners here in this car!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The point of being Pope of FrancisChurch is to &#8216;make doctrine&#8217; not defend it.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that right?\u00a0 Look at all the new things we keep learning to believe.\u00a0 We have to go &#8216;ever forward&#8217; and never return to the Ancient Mass.\u00a0 We have to renounce &#8216;small minded rules and conditions that used to be Catholic but really were just spawn of Pharisees.\u00a0 We have to make &#8216;the poor&#8217; the center of the Gospel which actually makes no sense without the poor.\u00a0 We should even kneel before the poor in Church!\u00a0 (I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll find that uplifting.)<\/p>\n<p>We must hate disunity, renounce war, believe Palestine is a country and in a brand new Cuba.\u00a0 We have to think ISIS murderers decide who is a true Christian and believe arms makers are un-Christian hypocrites. My remarried father-in-law told my wife the other day that Pope Francis said we can all get divorced now if we want.\u00a0 Why would he think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/pope-morally-couples-split-article-1.2270980\" target=\"_blank\">that<\/a>?\u00a0 Most of all, among this font of new truths, it is important that we always remember to hate &#8216;inequality&#8217; wherever it exists.<\/p>\n<p>Today Pope Francis has gone even further and made an entirely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/07\/07\/pope-francis-we-can-no-longer-turn-our-backs-on-mother-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\">new social justice.<\/a>\u00a0 From now, on Pope Francis says, we have no right to anything if it makes someone else&#8217;s pile unequal.\u00a0 From this moment, if you&#8217;re not poor you&#8217;re a thief in FrancisChurch.\u00a0 Good thing he rides in that Fiat.\u00a0 But what about the driver?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Pope Francis on Tuesday (July 7) said protecting the planet was no longer a choice but a duty and called for a new \u201csocial justice\u201d where access to the earth\u2019s resources would be based on equality instead of economic interests.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I always cringe when I hear liberals use the word &#8216;access.&#8217;\u00a0 They are so concerned about everyone&#8217;s access all the time.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t access health care because they want me to pay the doctor!\u00a0 I must access the earth&#8217;s resources so I can eat my cereal. Wait a minute.\u00a0 How is it you have access to Kashi when I have to access these Raisin Bits?!<\/p>\n<p>For people who love &#8216;access&#8217; they sure like locking down classrooms and <a href=\"http:\/\/notrickszone.com\/2015\/06\/27\/schellnhuber-boasts-of-having-skeptics-excluded-from-participating-in-drafting-laudato-si-encyclical\/#sthash.vwitoRvW.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">locking truth out of Vatican meetings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In back-to-back speeches on the third day of his trip to Ecuador, the pope made his first full-court press on environmental issues since the publication last month of his landmark ecology encyclical \u201cLaudato Si.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before a group that included indigenous people of the Equatorial Amazon, he also renewed his call for special protection for the area because of its vital importance to the\u00a0planet\u2019s ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>The pope has said he wanted the encyclical to influence a United Nations climate change summit in Paris in December and has now effectively taken his campaign to convince governments on the road. In September he takes his message to the United States and the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing is certain: we can no longer turn our backs on reality, on our brothers and sisters, on Mother Earth,\u201d he said in a first speech at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>While he did not specifically mention climate change or its causes, he quoted often from the encyclical, which said there was a \u201cvery solid scientific consensus\u201d on global warming and its human causes.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared to be making a clear reference to climate change doubters when he said: \u201cIt is wrong to turn aside from what is happening all around us, as if certain situations did not exist or have nothing to do with our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh oh.\u00a0 Sinner again in FrancisChurch!\u00a0 It&#8217;s gotta be me.\u00a0 How could it be Pope Francis?\u00a0 He&#8217;s studied chemistry for Pete&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The point of being Pope of FrancisChurch is to &#8216;make doctrine&#8217; not defend it.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that right?\u00a0 Look at all the new things we keep learning to believe.\u00a0 We have to go &#8216;ever forward&#8217; and never return to the Ancient Mass.\u00a0 We have to renounce &#8216;small minded rules and conditions that used to be Catholic <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=3872\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,94,528,538,19],"class_list":["post-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-congregation-for-doctrine-of-faith","tag-ecuador","tag-new-social-justice","tag-pope-francis"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3910,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions\/3910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}