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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.
Not one Earth Day prediction has come true in the last 46 years.
Dang, I hate it when the world comes to an end and I miss it…Every single time!
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What’s new, years ago I read someone blogged that global warming was more akin to a cult religion than science, so I’ll take this as proof.
Before listening to so called Scientists, the holy fater should check in the Bible:
Genesis 9:8-17Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark.[a] 11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13 I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will look upon it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.”
I have always thought that this was why the rainbow flag was taken as a standard for you-know-who, it’s a mockery of god, but what do I know.
Everytime global warming or climate change is an “issue”, why isn’t China, the source of global pollution, ever mentioned? Why didn’t Pope Francis or President Obama ever go to China to tell them to stop the pollution?
Thank god I found this thread—so many knowledgeable scholars laying out the arguments against faith and the practice of the Christian religion (or any religion?) by the science of history—I feel compelled by the weight of the reasoning to immediately abandon my beliefs and my religion and just be a good person. Thank you all.
There will be a collection plate there somewhere. You pay, they prey.
Again God’s word to the pope:
21 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
Genesis 8
Johannes,
Just as pagans offered up hecatombs to their gods, who were pleased by the smell of burnt meat. Same as backyard barbecuers today.
Noah had clean animals to spare, since he let seven pairs of each of them on the ark, but only one pair of unclean. That is, in one version of the story (Genesis 7:2-3). In the other (Genesis 6:19-20), there was no distinction in number between clean and unclean animals, ie only two of each, so none available for sacrifice.
As so often in the Bible, those responsible for editing various versions of stories just put them next to each other, without choosing between them. As for instance in Genesis 1 and 2, the two conflicting creation myths.
No milodon, seven pairs of the clean animals were brought. It can also be said, two by two.
The truth of those chapters in Genesis is to be seen in the phrase, “a male and his female.” Count how many times that phrase or a variation of it are used. All things on earth begin with a male and his female, and all good things are sustained by that conjugial arrangement. The whole earth was renewed and regenerated by pairs, that is, “a male and his female,” one of each. That is why it is found in the text over seven times per chapter iirc.
Zeke,
Sorry. It never ceases to amaze me that so many Christians haven’t actually read the Bible, and if so, understood it. Maybe reading it in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek improves comprehension, rather than in translation.
Your false interpretation is contrary to the actual text of the Bible. Here’s what the US Council of Catholic Bishops says in its translation and notes thereof.
Genesis 6:
19 Of all living creatures you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, one male and one female,* to keep them alive along with you.
20 Of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal, and of every kind of thing that crawls on the ground, two of each will come to you, that you may keep them alive.
* [6:19–21] You shall bring two of every kind…, one male and one female: For the Priestly source (P), there is no distinction between clean and unclean animals until Sinai (Lv 11), no altars or sacrifice until Sinai, and all diet is vegetarian (Gn 1:29–30); even after the flood P has no distinction between clean and unclean, since “any living creature that moves about” may be eaten (9:3). Thus P has Noah take the minimum to preserve all species, one pair of each, without distinction between clean and unclean, but he must also take on provisions for food (6:21). The Yahwist source (J), which assumes the clean-unclean distinction always existed but knows no other restriction on eating meat (Abel was a shepherd and offered meat as a sacrifice), requires additional clean animals (“seven pairs”) for food and sacrifice (7:2–3; 8:20).
Genesis 7:
2 Of every clean animal, take with you seven pairs, a male and its mate; and of the unclean animals, one pair, a male and its mate;
3 likewise, of every bird of the air, seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep their progeny alive over all the earth.
There is no conflict there. They are brought by pairs. One male and one female. No dens of males only or females only. He will not be bringing in any animal that does not have a mate. That is the plan. Later instructions are more precise, but still identical.
Introducing assumptions about separate writers and separate texts does not prove anything at all.
מִכֹּל הַבְּהֵמָה הַטְּהֹורָה תִּֽקַּח־לְךָ שִׁבְעָה שִׁבְעָה אִישׁ וְאִשְׁתֹּו
All there in the Hebrew!
Seven sevens
clean, pure
male and his female
Zeke,
It’s not an assumption. It’s a deduction from the glaring inconsistencies in meaning and style of the texts. Comparison of the two chapters proves that they’re irreconcilably different. Anyone with a mind the least bit open would instantly recognize that fact, noted by biblical scholars down the centuries,
You’ve shown only a Hebrew passage from Genesis 7, so it doesn’t illustrate your false claim. The Jebrew text of Genesis 6 mentions seven pairs of clean animals and one pair of unclean, contrary to what Genesis 7 says.
PS: Moses didn’t write the Pentateuch (Torah), either.
milodon says, “Genesis 6 mentions seven pairs of clean animals and one pair of unclean”
Gen 6:19 and 20
“And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.”
וּמִכָּל־הָחַי מִֽכָּל־בָּשָׂר שְׁנַיִם מִכֹּל תָּבִיא אֶל־הַתֵּבָה לְהַחֲיֹת אִתָּךְ זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה יִֽהְיֽוּ׃
“Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.”
מֵהָעֹוף לְמִינֵהוּ וּמִן־הַבְּהֵמָה לְמִינָהּ מִכֹּל רֶמֶשׂ הָֽאֲדָמָה לְמִינֵהוּ שְׁנַיִם מִכֹּל יָבֹאוּ אֵלֶיךָ לְהַֽחֲיֹֽות׃
Look very hard for the number 7
שִׁבְעָה
It is not there in the English or in Hebrew. Decades of time elapsed before the final boarding in ch 7. Sufficient time to be instructed to bring seven sevens of certain clean animals (ch 7). This is just not an inconsistency and the instructions are identical.
The most obvious example of this kind of editing, or lack of editing, in the compilation of the OT after return from the Babylonian Captivity, is the similarity between Chronicles and Kings. But there are lots of others, as I noted, importantly in the irreconcilably contradictory creation myths of Genesis 1 and 2.
Has some global bully softly whispered into the Pope’s ear: “We will allow the church to continue to exist if…?” or is the Pope just an idiot?
If the church is going to listen to the lunatic in the Vatican, so be it. However, this isn’t “religion” in the traditional sense (although…man made global warming” is a religion for many nutcases)…..as such, and having been raised Catholic myself…..it is well overdue to start taxing the church in all states, based on their political activity on this issue, as well as ILLEGALS. Stay on tune, or pay to play.
The very fact that the solution to “global warming” is taxation should have been a giant WARNING to even the most weak-minded “Chicken Little”. The politicians and bureaucrats–and now the Catholic Church–are simply taking advantage of those who live their lives scared to death that the sky is falling. They’re just a bunch of hypocritical charlatans (who are so worried about the sham of “global warming” that they still continue to jet-set around the world in their private planes) selling their brand of snake-oil to the mentally unstable in order to increase their control over the little people, while increasing their already enormous wealth. You can tell that those who adhere to this “religion” are mentally unstable and/or ill by the way that they rabidly and intolerantly attempt to force this “cult” down the throats of those who apply common sense and intellect to the question of NATURAL WEATHER PATTERNS. Their willingness to actually jail those who disagree with them is eerily reminiscent of the Salem Witch Trials–in which an earlier version of our modern day liberals practiced their hate and intolerance against those who they found themselves at odds with.
I think the Pope is a good guy (I am a Lutheran). And as many other good guys he is misguided from blind guides, as Jesus somwhere stated.
Possibly we should pray to the Lord to enlighten him…
The Vatican said as well to Trump that they will ask God to enlighten him….
Much enlightment here needed at this time…
I think that this pope is evil incarnate. He has always been on the side of the enemies of humanity.
Trump is already enlightened.
Scientists MUST be constantly skeptical – it is fundamentally the nature of science to question everything – even well-accepted theories long after ‘the science is settled’. Faith requires the opposite. Telling priests what ‘doctrine’ to preach is one thing, but the pope needs to understand that AGW is based on ‘faith’ and not science. Meanwhile, the left is completely hypocritical when asking scientists to ‘have faith’ in man-made global warming when there are so many obvious reasons to remain skeptical.
There is a reason for this shift. Money. The Catholic church has been bleeding followers to the “new religion” of global warming. To try to keep the money that once flowed into the Catholic Church’s coffers from being directed into the bank accounts of the new religious cult of global warming, Catholic Priests have to start preaching the new “pop-culture” doomsday doctrine. Hell doesn’t scare anyone these days, because it is popular, so now they preach the fire and brimstone prophecies of literal fire and brimstone doomsday scenarios of the Earth melting.
57 year old every Sunday Catholic. Why not spend time on having decent music and a coherent homily? How about that for an improvement?
Wait, so this is now officially a part of a religion. So now about that separation of church and state thing…. We can now disregard this because of religion, right?
And the scientists that say that global warming, errr I mean climate change is real, they do NOT say that humans are a “significant part of the cause”. In fact, what they have concluded is that even if we all stopped driving cars, the temperature would change 0.003 degrees, is that a “significant amount”?
It’s really time for the Holy Spirit to acknowledge that a mistake was made, that we need a new pontiff.
Christians are slaughtered in the Middle East, tortured in China, persecuted around the world — and this guy wants priests to preach about climate change. Good Lord.
The Pope should pull his papal proboscis out of politics and put it where it belongs.
The Catholic formula has it that “the Pope is infallible on matters of faith and morals”. But on secular matters in general – and political matters in particular – his opinions have no special standing, and despite the size of his megaphone, the man Jorge Bergoglio is just another voice in the roar of the worldly crowd.
The Roman Catholic church has been apostate for at least 1600 years. History has shown that Rome’s scientific opinions are as worthless as its theology.
I can see it now: (in confession) — “bless me Father for I have sinned — I left the lights on 3 times while not present in the room; I set the thermostat to 70 degrees because I was hot……”
The real Catholic Church has been usurped and the true authorities are no longer living in the Vatican. This new post 1960’s phony “Catholic” church can continue destroying itself and trying to damage Christianity all it wants – no one is buying their BS anymore anyway.
Catholic Online does not speak for the Catholic Church. It is not an official voice. They are expressing opinions.
Such total bullshit. The so-called Catholic Science “Whatever” said the earth was FLAT, too! How’d that work out?! Smh.
Jer 5:22, Prov 8:29, Psalms 104:6-9, and Job 38:8-11 teach that the Lord put perpetual boundaries on the ocean. if melting ice makes the sea levels rise past those boundaries then the boundaries are not perpetually Bible is false. and you are a priest of a false Bible.
Well, there’s an interesting collection of opinions about the Catholic Church. Many are on a par with the wilder claims of the climate alarmists. They have about as much evidence to back them up as the climate alarmists do to back up theirs. Talk about making things up! Here’s a sample of the utter nonsense that some people (so it would appear) actually believe. Perhaps the people who believe this stuff should get together with the climate alarmists as they share a willingness to believe any old rubbish. Just some of the wilder ones:
It is estimated (conservatively) that the Catholic Church killed half the population of Europe during Reformation alone.
the destruction of Alexander’s Library by Justinian
Christianity was co-opted by the Roman Catholic Church and their week Protestant counterparts the Protestants It amazing that people believe there was only 4 Gospels. The central point of the RCC under Bishop Irenaeus of Lyons was that they kept out any Gospel that went counter to their scam, especially the fact that you DON”T need a middlemen for you relationship with the Supreme Being. ( Gospels left out Gospels of Judas, Mary Phillip etc)
The Church condoned the mass murderous crusades of Charlemagne against the pagan Saxons and later of the Teutonic Knights against the pagan Prussians and Lithuanians, to name but a few instances of the religion spread by fire, sword and ax, in the case of the Saxons’ sacred groves.
Catholic charities are getting rich by bringing in the moslem invaders, and pretending they are refugees.
For over 2000 years this organization of greed, bigotry, murder and hatred, dedicated to death, has controlled minds and bodies.
Isn’t this the same bunch that preached that the world was flat??
Check you history books, the Roman Catholic Church has ALWAYS aligned with the corrupt and criminal global ruling elites.
I’m not sure which is sadder: people believing in climate alarmism or people believing the nonsense quoted above.
Alba,
By “nonsense”, you apparently mean “truth”. It is an incontrovertible historical fact that the Church not only condoned, but supported Charles the Great’s mass murder of pagan Saxons and the Teutonic Knights’ mass murder and enslavement of Lithuanians. You could easily have verified these facts by the least little effort at research.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxon_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Verden
That Pope Adrian I had called upon Charlemagne to convert the Saxons by force cannot be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, but it’s the most reasonable interpretation of events. After Charles the Great massacred the Saxons, Pope Leo III, crowned him Holy Roman Emperor, so obviously approved of his mass slaughter of German pagans.
The official starting point for the Northern Crusades, which included the Lithuanian Crusade, was Pope Celestine III’s call in 1193 forcibly to convert the last pagan holdouts in Europe. Attacks against these people had already been launched by their Christian neighbors, but the authority of Pope and Church helped recruit crusading knights of various orders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Crusades
In 1198, Celestine III confirmed the statutes of the crusading Teutonic Knights as a military order.
Reblogged this on gottadobetterthanthis and commented:
Well, I disagree with the Pope. He is wrong.
I find it simply evil for the Vatican to publish lies. You can pretend the Pope and his statements are honest, even if mistaken, but that is not possible.
The statement is fallacious and worded to deceive. It is a lie.
It is a dark hour for humanity and the church.
The Catholic Church and the Pope will be shown as opposed to the right. The recent climate polices kill and enslave. That is the opposite of what Christ commanded. We cannot save posterity by killing and enslaving their progenitors.
The Pope has shown himself willing to aid and abet that which harms humanity, that which is opposed to our very souls.
Some day, the Vatican will recant such nonsense, as it had to with Galileo.