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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.
And verily I say unto you this is complete bullshit.
Or bovis stercore as they used to say in Rome.
Done with the organized Catholic Church. Done! No more money to bail them out of their lawsuits, no more money to support sanctuary for illegals.
Why our country and church refuses to put effort ls where they belong and that is in improving the societies from where the illegals migrate from I will never understand. With hold aid, directly force new leadership but enough already
And they will also be required to sing ‘All hail to Fidel Castro’, a favorite of Pope Francis.
Communists
I don’t think the current Pope has faith in or believes in God.
A tool and shill for the NWO, and serves secular masters.
He’ll soon relocate his Vatican headquarters to Israel and Jerusalem, thus fulfilling prophecy.
The Trump Administration leads the way by their announcement to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.
We are living in interesting times.
I thank the good clergy for their spirtual guidance….but will skip the weather forecasts and advertising for at best shadowy science!
So, since the Catholic Church has deemed global warming is significantly caused by human activity, it then follows that the number of humans is part of the problem (7 billion of us little buggers). Does that then mean that the Catholic Church is going to advocate for birth control?
I’ve tried twice now to comment on the original Catholic Online article. They both got pulled by the ‘moderator’.
Here is the original article: http://www.catholic.org/news/green/story.php?id=72433
Here is my comment:
As a Catholic and retired engineer, I am VERY sad and disappointed that this article is so biased and anti-science. There is very little truth in it. The climate changes the Earth has experienced in the past 100+ years is NOT unusual or alarming. Human emissions of CO2 have virtually NO effect on global temperatures, regardless of what ‘consensus’ so-called climate scientists claim. Humans only emit about 4% of new CO2, with nature emitting the remaining 96%. In addition, CO2 is a minor ‘greenhouse’ gas, only making up 4%, with water vapor being the major player at 94%. Methane and some others make up the remaining 2%.
Here are a few ‘inconvenient’ facts about CO2 the “experts” try to bury: 1) There was a time during an ice age where the CO2 levels were 11 times higher than today, yet the Earth remained much colder for thousands of years. 2) We are in one of only two geological time periods were the CO2 levels have been this low. 3) Each time the Earth went into an ice age, the CO2 levels remained at their maximum levels for thousands of years before falling.
If CO2 levels FOLLOW changes in temperature, how can it be the cause??? It can NOT. Commercial greenhouses artificially inject CO2 to levels 3-4 times higher than we now have in the atmosphere, because it is airborne fertilizer for plants, allowing them to grow MUCH faster, and they require less water and are more resistant to drought, insects and disease. Isn’t this a good thing???
Over any reasonable time scale, changes in CO2 levels do NOT match temperature changes. However, there is a fairly good match with cosmic radiation and global temperature. This was recently proven by Dr. Henric Svensmark of Denmark, who ran an experiment at the CERN Swiss national lab. He validated the observations of Sir Herschel of England who in 1801 wrote a paper noting the close connection between sun spots (which affects the shielding from cosmic rays) and the price of wheat (temperature).
As an engineer, I find the article’s author lacking in objective reporting, and am sad that “Catholic Online” would allow such a biased propaganda piece to be published.
I really don’t expect this to be ‘allowed’, since my earlier comment was pulled by your so-called “Moderator”. A few hundred years ago Galileo was also subjected to restrictions on the truth about planetary orbits. I’ll be putting this out on other news outlets, just in case.
With Regrets,
Allen Rogers
Obviously the Catholic church has political activists and the hierarchy has been snookered by people lying for their cause by saying that skeptics are “lying” for their cause. After reviewing the research (or lack thereof) I believe the skeptics.
Wunnnerrfulllllll! And with the new Mercy Dogma declared solely by PEO – papal executive order – “no council, no Holy spirit needed-the newbies will not have to preach about the lack of timer thermostats in hell – because Jorge B, a la La Misercordia Bulla [google it] – has abolished hell. Who’d a thunk two millenia on we’d have someone sitting in Peter’s Chair who figured out Jesus’s mistakes and God’s errors? Guy McClung, San Antonio, Texas
A desire for clerical suicide, social justice or faith and morals?
Sounds like an excellent way to lose their tax exempt status here in the U.S.
Since global warming is a religion, this is a match made in heaven.
Ahhh…. there’s nothing like when two religions collide!
The vatican and the global warming farce are all about world dominion and complete control. It’s the beast of Revelation 13. The vatican and their crooked rothschild partners push for globalism, socialism, islam, etc. are all about bringing hell on earth.
This commie pope thinks that the Roman Catholic church will have a large spot at the globalists table. Wrong, the globalists will make sure the church goes the way of the dinosaur. Fools!
As a Catholic, this is lunacy. In fact, the very notion we believe ourselves to be powerful enough to destroy such a creation by the Almighty Father is arrogance and pride beyond the pale. Furthermore, as if He would let us. This is not religion, it is not even spirituality…this is politics, left-leaning politics infiltrating what should be off limits. I’ve had enough of this Liberation Theology/Social Justice nonsense. The answer to the world’s ills is so plain and simple, handed down to us by our Heavenly Father and His most perfect Son…do unto others. Of course, we have a responsibility to be respectful, appreciative and deserving of His gifts, but adherance to the humanistic idea of “Climate Change” is the realm of the fallen one, not the Father.
This pope thinks that the Roman Catholic church will have a large spot at the globalists table. Wrong, the globalists will make sure the church goes the way of the dinosaur. !
So much for the Vatican “Science Dept.”
Is the the same science body that condemned Galileo for his heliocentric views?
Why does the pope care? he has bigger things to care about!
Could a priest satisfy this requirement by talking about the importance of recycling plastic, protecting against radioactive waste by using safe practices with nuclear power plants, and other things that actually make sense? If I were to become a priest I’d be trying to do it that way and thereby “check the box” for environmental stewardship, just not bothering with the troublesome climate change set of issues.
While this communist/socialist Pope concentrates on this baloney, ISIS and Islam are working on destroying us and taking over the world.
One thing I think the church will be able to boast of, eventually, is its many hints of openness about the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. (I’m unsure of their position on the reality of UFOs. I suspect the CIA has given the church a heads-up on this matter.)
I am a former catholic because of this pope and others like him. Global warming would be a good thing. You can’t live in cold climates very easy. Warm places are where the people live. Stuck on stupid is the pope.