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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Catholic Online reports that new priests will be expected to be familiar with and promote efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
New priests to learn about global warming as part of formation
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LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) — The Catholic Church is intimately concerned about climate change. The Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences is the world’s oldest, longest running scientific mission. That body, which advises the pope on matters of science, has concluded that global climate change is real and is caused, at least in significant part, by human activity.
This is important to the Church because creation care is part of our mission. We are called to be stewards of creation. It’s also important because climate change can exacerbate the ills of poverty. Poor people in much of the world are the most vulnerable to changes.
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Unfortunately, the issue is politicized. In the late 1970s, when the issue threatened the financial interests of the fossil fuel industry, the political lobbies, chiefly in the United States, financed a massive political disinformation campaign to manufacture the illusion of dissent within the scientific community.
We know because this manipulation of public opinion has been caught and documented. The fossil fuel industry funds nearly all of the climate change skeptics, going so far as to commission questionable studies, to financing think tanks, and even paying individual bloggers. The deception continues today.
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But what does this have to do with the Church?
The Church has a responsibility to care for people, and the environment. And care for one is also care for the other.
Now updated guidelines for the formation of clergy says new priests should understand this as well:
“Protecting the environment and caring for our common home — the Earth, belong fully to the Christian outlook on man and reality. Priests should be “promoters of an appropriate care for everything connected to the protection of creation.”
The new guidelines suggest that in the future, priests will also have a good grasp of the global climate change problem and will share this with their congregation.
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Read more: http://www.catholic.org/news/green/story.php?id=72433
From the Vatican website;
The Gift of the Priestly Vocation
… For some time now, experts and researchers, active in different fields of study, have turned their attention to the emerging planetary crisis, which is reflected strongly in the current Magisterium regarding the ‘ecological question’. Protecting the environment and caring for our common home – the Earth – belong fully to the Christian outlook on man and reality. They constitute in some way the basis for a sound ecology of human relations. Hence they demand, today above all, a “profound interior conversion. It must be said that some committed and prayerful Christians, with the excuse of realism and pragmatism, tend to ridicule expressions of concern for the environment. Others are passive; they choose not to change their habits and thus become inconsistent. So what they all need is an ‘ecological conversion’, whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evidence in their relationship with the world around them. Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience. Therefore it will be necessary for future priests to be highly sensitive to this theme and, through the requisite Magisterial and theological guidance, helped to “acknowledge the appeal, immensity and urgency of the challenge we face”. This must then be applied to their future priestly ministry, making them promoters of an appropriate care for everything connected to the protection of creation. …
Whats next? Excommunication of scientists whose theories aren’t approved by the Pope?
Update (EW) – Added a quote from “The Gift of the Priestly Vocation” from the Vatican website.
Will no one rid us of this turbulent pope?
Maybe Benedict’s dwindling supporters will strike back, a la John Paul I.
If the Catholic Church believes in Global Warming….caused by excess humans….they need to stop importing Muslims to America and other countries that pay the church to do so. The muslim excess breeding is causing more global warming harm than a 1st world family of 4. Having a dozen or more kids is just killing the planet. ALL other religions have seen responsible breeding, but muslims are given a pass.
Muslims’ stated goal is to take over countries via breeding. It not hate, it’s a fact.
To stop global warming will require the Catholic Church to man up an stop taking tax dollars to import muslims to America.
The REAL Agenda for one-world-order?
“We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy” said ex-UN’s Edenhofer.
investors DOT com/politics/editorials/another-climate-alarmist-admits-real-motive-behind-warming-scare/
Yes, come up with a calamity that the world can unite with, and then subjugate the world’s wealth to fight the imaginary enemy. It’s not working out to well as the climate hoax has been exposed.
The Catholic Church is just repeating the cult of CAGW’s mantra which is completely removed from observations and analysis.
The liberals believe that if something is repeated enough times (the liberal repeating law only applies for statements made by like-minded liberals) it becomes true.
It appears the wait for cooling, in response to the solar cycle interruption is over. There is now discussion of the return of the ‘polar vortex’ with comparisons of the winter of 1961/1962.
Paint the picture for what to expect.
Significant unequivocal cooling (significant in that the public will demand an explanation as to why the planet is cooling) at the same time there are investigations into the questions of how and who was involved in the massive manipulation of data and fudging of analysis concerning the entire CAGW mess.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-transition-team-seeks-details-200558864.html
http://notrickszone.com/2015/11/20/german-professor-examines-nasa-giss-temperature-datasets-finds-they-have-been-massively-altered/#sthash.ibiNW4TW.Saxx5o6a.dpbs
They will preach invisible global warming along with the invisible man.
More foolish commentary from the Marxist Catholic Pope to his peasant followers. Naturally American tax payers will be expected to pick up the tab for global warming. NASA weather satellites show no increase in the worlds temperature over the last 15 years. Climate zealots call it the pause and have no explanation!
“Global Warming” (hoax) is based on Catholic images of Hell & Eden — that’s why the hoax won’t die (VIDEO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NklKZLRjbTI
The Church has been wrong about science before. The Pope’s infallibility only covers faith and morals, not scientific knowledge.
“Pontifical Academy of Sciences” LMAO! I bet Galleleo is laughing too!
I wonder how many Environmental Engineers are part of that “Academy”?
The science is settled. That 97% of the scientists agree that anthropogenic global warming is a hoax.
Global warming is a myth, as is Bergoglio being Pope. An apostate cannot be pope, nor can a freemason (devil worshipers at their highest level) since the fact that he is a freemason automatically excommunicates him. The hierarchy of the Church in Rome was overthrown in 1958 when freemason Angelo Roncalli (John 23) stole the office and illegally called for Vatican 2, which illegal changed the Mass into a joke against Church law. Bergoglio is a phony and so is “global warming”.
Why would the Roman church get involved with this hoax on the world? Time for a pope change. Catholics beware.
And there it is, proving the theory that global warming is indeed a religious belief.
What silliness. This is just the pope’s leftwing politics, has nothing to do with Christianity. I think we all know overpopulation will destroy us long before the oceans rise and inch or the temperature rises a degree. Heck overpopulation is sucking our rivers, lakes and even some seas DRY. Overpopulation is the problem pope, but you and the politicians can’t deal with that issue. That is why so many of us ignore the pope and self-serving politicians. Fight over population. Climate change is just an attempt by socialist politicians to control us and get more tax money.
Not one single prediction by environmentalists has come true. Not one.
– the population is not bursting at the seams. It’s merely overconcentration in some areas.
– there is still more than enough land to settle millions more.
– we are not out of food.
– we are not out of water.
– weather didn’t get worse.
– we didn’t run out of oil or gas or minerals.
– we didn’t drive all animals to extinction.
– the ice caps didn’t melt.
– the Earth didn’t freeze – remember THAT one fifty years ago?
– there is not one single coastal city under water no matter what they tell us. USE YOUR EYES, PEOPLE! GO TO THE COASTS AND SEE FOR YOURSELF!
– not one of the warmists can tell us what the temperature should be.
– Climate change crooks have been caught cooking the books (see ‘climategate’ and calling for the ruin of the careers – including jail time of people who disagree with their predictions.
– climate change is about nothing more than power and money.
– ask yourself why the leaders of the climate change never EVER follow their own advice? They live in multiple, huge homes, fly/boat/drive around to enormous parties, have big families, lavish vacations, glorious lifestyles – all things they demand we never should do. How many of them have ever planted a tree?
– not one of the population control crowd has ever killed him/herself to live what they preach.
Remember foks, global warming is about money and power. Money from your pockets into theirs and power given to them over you. Fight this nonsense everywhere you see it.
POPE FRANCIS — The Useful Idiot
Sings A Famous Religious Song
(I)
I don’t care if it rains and freezes
Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
I’m driving fast to where I’m going
Horn a’honking, headlights glowing
Racing to that global climate war!
It’s Armageddon straight ahead!
For just as Adam Smith has said
Creating wealth sets each against all others!
The Covenant within the Ark
Is best fulfilled through Karl Marx
Shared poverty will make us Christian brothers!
(II0
I preach a new Theology
Derived from Climatology
My alter is the dashboard of my car
I had a vision, went to buy a
Naked, windup, plastic Gaia
I serve Her in the global climate war
For Gaia mends the Trinity
She is the third Divinity
God feminine as Christ was made a male!
In all the nations they will herald
The Moving Spirit Of The World!
— Who bobs Her head and shakes Her tail!
Eugene WR Gallun
It’s time to accept that the Catholic Church is a criminal organization, not a religion.
It was a model for the Mafia.
Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather” is based upon the Borgia popes and their family.
Especially protection rackets. Give us money, so that your soul will spring from purgatory. Give us money, or we’ll break your legs or burn down your store.
THE FAKE POPE RECENTLY GAVE HIS FAKE PRIESTS THE “POWER” TO FORGIVE ABORTION. Which means that EVEN THOUGH JESUS CHRIST TOLD US that HE would forgive us of EVERY SIN EXCEPT BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE FALSE CHURCH has been doling out their “forgiveness” like those papal indulgences of long ago. AND ONLY GOD can FORGIVE sin a man can PRAY with you and even pray FOR you, but it is GOD that forgives sin.
Matthew 12:31
Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Matthew 12:31-32 [Full Chapter]
Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
GOD ALREADY SAID THAT HE WOULD FORGIVE US ANY SIN SHORT OF BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST!!!!!!!!! WHO NEEDED THIS FALSE PROPHET POS TO TELL THEM THAT GOD FORGIVES SIN? Man, cannot forgive ANYTHING.
BUT NOTICE WHAT THE SCRIPTURE ON CONFESSION ACTUALLY SAYS!!! 1 JOHN 1:9, It says that IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS it is NOT THE PRIEST THAT FORGIVES US BUT IT IS GOD. THE POPE IS A LIAR.
The pope thinks that commenting on homosexuals is him judging them. God judged homosexuals in the bible and had the penalty written down for those who afterward would claim him as their GOD. Why doesn’t the pope know that the bible is God’s judgement against the behavior of man? Thou shalt not seems abundantly clear.
Jesus said to call no man on earth “Father” for we have one “Father” and He is in heaven.
Matthew 23:9New International Version (NIV)
9 And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.
The pope’s church calls priests “Father” and the pope “Holy Father”. Jesus specifically said that the glory of being called “Father” BELONGS TO GOD AND GOD ALONE. Why does the pope think that he can usurp the glory of God for himself.
The pope tells us that the mission of Jesus Christ on Earth was to “BRING PEACE ON EARTH’, his church tells us this every Christmas. Yet JESUS CHRIST warned us not to think certain things about him or his purpose in coming. One of the things that Jesus WARNED US NOT TO THINK was…..oh, let’s just read it shall we?
Matthew 10:34-39New International Version (NIV)
34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not
come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn
“‘a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
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a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
37 “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.
The pope and his church tell you that he is the MEDIATOR BETWEEN MAN AND GOD. The bible says that there was indeed a “mediator” but has a different take on who that might be.
1 Timothy 2:5New International Version (NIV)
5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,
Oh, so the pope is USURPING THE TITLE OF JESUS CHRIST by calling and allowing himself to be called “the Mediator between man and God”, since the BIBLE tells us that the mediator is JESUS CHRIST.
The pope tells you to pray to Mary, Peter and a thousand other saints.
Exodus 20:1-5 tells you not to have other God’s before the Lord Almighty and not to bow down to them nor serve them.
AND JESUS SPECIFICALLY TOLD YOU TO PRAY NOT TO MARY BUT TO THE FATHER.
Matthew 6:6
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Add to that the fact that we were told also that whatever we do in WORD OR DEED to DO IT IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST! And now you know why we say “Father in the name of Jesus”,
Colossians 3:17
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Why does the pope tell you to pray to someone OTHER than GOD?
JESUS LINKED BAPTISM TO SALVATION IN JOHN 3:1-8 AND MARK 16:15-20. Romans 6:3-5
The WORD “baptism” in the greek, which the N.T. is written in, is the word “Bautizo”, Bautizo MEANS TO BE COMPLETELY IMMERSED IN WATER. When JESUS was baptized in MATTHEW 3 HE WAS COMPLETELY IMMERSED IN WATER. The false church of COURSE had to change even this! SPRINKLING is not BAPTISM. The APOSTLES told you that there is ONLY ONE BAPTISM, in
Ephesians 4:5King James Version (KJV)
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
BUT IT ISN’T THE BAPTISM THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH PERFORMS!!! Peter, whom they lyingly claim as their “First Pope” SPECIFICALLY TOLD YOU HOW TO BE BAPTIZED!! When the Apostles received the Holy Ghost in ACTS 2:1-4, they came down onto the street still speaking in tongues, people mocked them Acts 2: 13, leading to PETER giving the FIRST SERMON WITH THE INDWELLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. At the conclusion of this sermon which goes from ACTS 2:14- ACTS 2:36 the PEOPLE TO WHOM HE PREACHED asked PETER what they needed to do to be saved like the Apostles and disciples.. THEY WERE TOLD TO BE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST. The false church does NOT baptize you in the name JESUS CHRIST but rather in three empty titles, none of which are NAMES..
Acts 2:37-41King James Version (KJV)
37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
The BIBLE declares that any church which prohibits people from MARRYING ( priests and nuns) AND also asks it’s congregants to ABSTAIN FROM MEATS ( no meat on Friday) IS A CHURCH OF SATAN. Paul told Timothy that this church would get it’s “DOCTRINE” from DEMONS.
1 Timothy 4:1-4
King James Version (KJV)
4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
He prophesied this to Timothy so that the Bishop could IDENTIFY the false church that arose. And you know what ELSE a “False church” that received it’s doctrines from DEMONS would do? It would LIE about the nature of CHRIST’S MISSON HERE ON EARTH. Every year the Catholic Church tells you that Jesus came to “BRING PEACE ON EARTH”, all of you without question have been VICTIMS of this HEINOUS LIE. Is it just a “mis-interpretation”? An INNOCENT MISTAKE perchance? Nope. It’s the EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT JESUS CHRIST STATED HIS MISSION TO BE!!!!
Not only did Jesus never say He came to “bring peace to the Earth”, but it’s something that JESUS CHRIST WARNED YOU SPECIFICALLY NOT TO THINK!!!!!
Matthew 10:34-39
King James Version (KJV)
34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Since these verses exist in EVERY BIBLE in the WORLD we can conclude that it isn’t an innocent mistake which has the POPE telling you the EXACT OPPOSITE of what Jesus said that HIS mission was!!
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE CHURCH OF SATAN.
How ignorant. Save your time.
God bless and forgive you.
And the First Commandment was Hebrew law from YHWH which means Christians violate it everyday.
Because of this communist pope and the direction he is taking the church, I am no longer attending and will not give a single dollar to them.
Please watch “A Sheep In Wolf’s Clothing”, a documentary about Saul Alinksy. Did you guys know that during a Communists in America meeting they acknowledged in the 1960’s that they had placed 1,000 communist priests in the Catholic Church in America? Yep!
OK, NOW I’m against the church. I never was before. I am Christian, but will practice my own faith.
AGW is a religion since the very beginning. There’s the hereditary sin of fossil fuels, lurking hell of runaway warming, and heaven waiting for those who stick with the church (and kill any opposers). No wonder catholic church embraces it.
Fake-pope. Benedict is the real and oh Pope. This other guy is some weird politician. Not buying what you’re selling Weirdo!!!
Benedict was overthrown in a palace coup by the Communist faction against the Conservative faction.
Hope the real story comes out, as it did about the Banco Ambrosiano scandal and John Paul I, among others, being bumped off. That event could be seen as a Conservative revolt against the Mafia and Communist, ie Liberation Theological, factions.
God help us! I’m a lifelong devout, but more or less non-practicing catholic. Jesus came to save us from our sinfulness, simply put he came, preached, performed miracles, suffered and died for our sins so we could be with him, and our loved ones in heaven some day. As the church has become progressively more liberal and political over the decades I have quit going to mass as I cannot endure the constant attempts by priests and liberal lay people to insert more and more of their socialist agenda, while ignoring the true message of the Gospel. I truly believe this pope is the pope spoken of in the prophecy of St. Francis of Assisi, look it up on the internet. How ironic or perhaps how inevitable that he would pick the name Francis, the first pope to be so named.
Of course this is part of the church’s work. You cannot promote mankind if you’re not concerned about the environment where EVERYONE lives.
Osvaldo,
It says more than that. It clearly refers to alleged catastrophic climate change previously cited by this Communist pope, when alluding to a “planetary crisis” identified by “experts”:
For some time now, experts and researchers, active in different fields of study, have turned their attention to the emerging planetary crisis, which is reflected strongly in the current Magisterium regarding the ‘ecological question’. Protecting the environment and caring for our common home – the Earth.
(Quotation from prior papal pap and drivel…)
“Therefore, it will be necessary for future priests to be highly sensitive to this theme and, through the requisite Magisterial and theological guidance, helped to “acknowledge the appeal, immensity and urgency of the challenge we face.”
This must then be applied to their future priestly ministry, making them
promoters of an appropriate care for everything connected to the protection of creation.
What with the left’s propensity to politicize everything and the Catholic Church’s leftist leanings and political meddling in Third World nations this should come as no surprise. It is however a tragedy that the Church would abuse its’ position of trust to rob and steal what little money and freedom so many of its’ adherents have by pushing this rotten scam on them.
I was raised as a Catholic and used to have a fair amount of respect for them even though I was never an active member so to speak, but between this, their well-known problems with pedophilia and their backing of communist and leftist positions in the Third World I will no longer have anything what so ever to do with them nor would I recommend that my Grandchildren be exposed to their teachings when there are plenty of other reliable, mainstream religions out there that are above board and are truly interested in helping those who need help the most, rather than steal what little they have by this bogus dogma which is only meant to enrich those at the top and to further empower questionable governments and tyrannical regimes around the world.
I hope that people leave the Church in droves based on this latest display of not only horribly bad judgement but the downright theft and virtual economic imprisonment pushed by this formerly reliable organization and the leftists that now head it. The only way to deal with corrupt organizations like this are to hit them financially and work to reduce their influence over the uninformed who have been raised to trust them and who are now being sadly let down.
Rich in New Mexico.