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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 the Peronist pope drags his church further down the road to irrelevance.
Honestly anything the Catholic church deems to be ‘science’ shouldnt be taken seriously. They do have a long and extensive history of perverting science to consolidate more power. If we took their science for granted we would still think earth is flat and therfore never have gone to the moon.
The Catholic Church held that the earth was the center of the universe (based more on Greek philosophy than on Christian theology — but they never proclaimed that it was flat. That’s a canard that intellectually lazy atheists have turned into a dis-informational cliche.
All are entitled to perceptions n beliefs but I grew up in the Catholic Church and don’t recall politization. This is another reason I do not attend Catholic Mass anymore. There are other venues to get God’s msg.
This, just one more great reason for not returning to the fold.
The Vatican built a great wall to keep Catholics and others out while the Pope decries national borders.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Catholicism.
No kidding. The shameless hypocrite not only decries borders, while keeping the hoi poloi out of the Vatican with walls and guards, but also opposes air conditioning for the little people, while enjoying it himself:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420011/pope-francis-wrong-about-air-conditioning-shubhankar-chhokra
What a disgusting, hideous, revolting, sorry excuse for a Christian or human, let alone the leader of a religion.
As a Conservative Catholic, emphasis on CONSERVATIVE. Pope Francis is the Pope…..but I’m not listening to 85%-90% of what he says.
He reminds me of President Obama. Yeah both the job title but they both SUCK at the job.
The Catholic Church is right about one thing: there is a massive effort to deceive the people going on, only it isn’t to pretend that non-existant global warming isn’t real, its to convince the public to accept new arduous levels of taxes and government regulation for breathing. The letters hacked from East Anglia proved this (are our memories now so short that we forget this?) detailing attempts to undermine and discredit scientists who attributed climate change to anything other than man-made global warming and to “hide the decline” in global temperatures.
The satellite data has consistently shown stable temperatures and even slight declines in global temperature even as heavily manipulated data show far below model estimate slight increases. The crisis is manufactured, the science is never settled, and the catholic church has, once again, taken on the flat earth approach in exchange for power over the people. Enough whore of Babylon. Your days are numbered and your crimes many – judgement will be swift and you shall drown in a river of your own making, filled to overflowing with lies and hypocrisy. No New World Order. Lucifer is NOT God.
Judgement begins in the pulpit.
“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.”
Under this rationale, there is no subject, ideology, or political issue that the Catholic Church cannot interfere with or participate in. This line of thinking effectively erases the distinction between the secular and the sacred.
I’m just guessing, but I would venture that there aren’t many Catholic Priests who are contributing members of this forum. If there are, and they do, I’d bet they won’t be Priests long. Aren’t ‘Science’ and the Church mutually exclusive?
Nothing the Church teaches can be tested by experiment (by definition). And nothing shown to be fact by science can be accepted by the Church because then it doesn’t depend on a God.
NW sage wrote “I’m just guessing…”
What a surprise.
“but I would venture that there aren’t many Catholic Priests who are contributing members of this forum.”
You would but cannot quite bring yourself to do it? Anyway, your venture is likely true depending on what you mean by “many”.
“If there are, and they do, I’d bet they won’t be Priests long.”
You would, but since Catholic priests might be made of sterner stuff, perhaps you won’t bet.
“Aren’t ‘Science’ and the Church mutually exclusive?”
Yes, they are not. Each occupies its own domain but some overlap exists. The bible says “let there be light” and science says “light exists” but offers not much of an explanation how it started.
“Nothing the Church teaches can be tested by experiment (by definition).”
Well that depends on which church. Mormons teach that tobacco is harmful; it appears this claim can and has been tested by experiment. But you are correct as to many moral principles of right and wrong. Such things cannot be tested by experiment.
“And nothing shown to be fact by science can be accepted by the Church because then it doesn’t depend on a God.”
This is the weakest part of your argument which is weak throughout. Science says gravity exists; you seem to be saying “the church” cannot accept gravity. What you have not shown is that gravity does or does not depend on a God, and what that God might be. Perhaps he is a gravity-making God and the existence of gravity is proof of gravity-making gods.
If this is true, I am totally done with the Catholic Church , now they have been infiltrated by the political left !
This is complete BS!
It’s sad that now to become a Catholic priest you must sell your soul to Satan.
may as well. the catholic churches have been getting emptier and poorer for the last forty years….anybody to preach anything to would be better than it is.
Global Warming:. It’s the SUN Stupid!!
Jack Chick’s unhappiness continues. As Hilaire Belloc said, few people hate the Church; they hate the fiction they have been told is the Church.
Catholics, do what many congregations have done for centuries and break free of the Vatican State. Give unto the Caesar Pope that which is his and give yourselves to the Lord.
Thank you for covering this. For those interested here is a full CHRONOLOGY OF QUOTES AND HEADLINES OF FALSE POPE FRANCIS – He has claimed Jesus never ‘multiplied’ the fish and loves, but instead it was all about ‘sharing’, that ‘lost souls’ are not punished, and that Jesus ‘begged’ Mary and Joseph for ‘forgiveness’.
https://thewildvoice.org/pope-francis-chronology-perspective/
Habemus Papam a Malo
And anyone who says the earth is round will be excommunicated!
Wrong. “Man caused global warming” is a lie, a fraud, a fake. Nothing you say will change that FACT.
Bingo, I’ve pointed that our 1,000x times. Once again, this is a science. CO2’s only way to affect temperature and/or climate is by absorbing 13 to 18µ IR Radiation. That is the only defined mechanism by which CO2 can cause climate change temperature increase. There is no mechanism by which CO2 can do anything but increase temperature. It traps heat, that is it. 13 to 18µ is consistent with a black body of temperature -80°C. Any real scientist would then focus on the parts of the globe where the impact of CO2 can be isolated. Basically, all factors need to be controlled for except for CO2. That is how a real scientist would do an experiment. A real scientist would study the parts of the globe closest to -80°C and where there is extremely dry air. By focusing on areas near -80°C you are isolating the IR wavelengths attributed to CO2 absorption. By focusing on very very dry air you remove H20, isolating the impact of CO2. That is how a real scientist would construct an experiment to measure the impact of CO2 on the atmospheric CO2. Those conditions are present at the S Pole. Here are the results. There is absolutely zero warming in the S Pole going all the way back to 1957. CO2 has greatly increased, and trapping IR between 13 to 18µ has led to zero warming. Do you have any evidence nighttime temperatures in the deserts have been increasing? I’ve never seen any that controls for H2O.
http://c3headlines.typepad.com/.a/6a010536b58035970c019b034e608b970c-pi
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Man-made global warming is a diabolical hoax.
The Pope claims to be the personal representative of the creator of the universe and to be infallible when speaking ‘ex cathedra’. He is either a charlatan or totally bonkers.
The Pope is (allegedly) infallible when speaking ex cathedra ON MATTERS OF FAITH AND MORALS. Even by that formula, when the Pope speaks on secular matters (on political issues, for example), he’s just offering another single, individual, and all-too-human opinion.
Then why do they call it climate change instead of global warming. Answer because it’s a lie
U.S.Catholics. Time to sit on this Pope. He is a hard lefty from Argentina. Argentina is
split about 50/50 politically but they just took a hard turn to the right. (Their survival depended upon it.)
Similar to our recent election. We are all conservationists. Beyond that, Planet Worship is the only state
sponsored religion aside from Communism and they have very much in common.