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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.
So I looked for an alternative news source to verify the article by Eric Worrall.
All I could find was an article by Marshall Connolly, of a private US based site catholic.org.
Catholic Online, and catholic.org does not speak for the Pope. I don’t believe it has any connection with the catholic church other than people who work there may refer to themselves as catholic.
I checked with Vatican Information Services, and I could not verify this news.
Eric? Is this verified or is this fake news.Have you any other source?
Among many other sources:
https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/vatican-updates-guidelines-educating-priests
The new guidelines themselves:
http://www.clerus.va/content/dam/clerus/Ratio%20Fundamentalis/The%20Gift%20of%20the%20Priestly%20Vocation.pdf
CONGREGATION FOR THE CLERGY
The Gift of the Priestly Vocation
Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis
L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO
VATICAN CITY, 8 DECEMBER 2016
Father Guido Sarducci’s Five Minute University:
No. The Pope is not quoted in the links you provided. CHUMP They are general guidelines.
Fake news…
Just like the fake news about Galileo saying “yet it moves” fake news to stir up the willfully ignorant and the lying detractors.
‘CHUMP’ I love it! Now that will be three Hail Marys for the both of us Paul!
You heard about Jesus’ reaction when he read the headline on the Drudge Report? He exclaimed, “What political nonsense will my followers think of next at the Vatican?”
The Opposite is True – The Government is funding the “science” of global warming. The email scandal between scientists recently exposed the corruption as a ploy to get federal funding for more research.
Francis’ Liberation Theology was literally a Communist plot:
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/former-soviet-spy-we-created-liberation-theology-83634/
And anyone still insisting that the Earth moves will be excommunicated.
When the Catholic church gets involved with junk science, nothing goods has comes out of it. I see another official Vatican apology coming in 100 years.
When the Catholic church gets involved with junk science, nothing goods has come out of it. I see another official Vatican apology coming in 100 years.
That would be an improvement upon the 400 years for Galileo.
Chimp writes “I see another official Vatican apology coming in 100 years.”
Alas, neither you nor I will be here to see if your soothsaying is any better than anyone else’s.
Mike Herman writes “I see another official Vatican apology coming in 100 years.”
That’s a safe bet that neither you nor I will ever collect. It’s like predicting global warming consequences 100 years in the future.
Oh my save the whales, save the snails, save the trees, save the seas, save the worms, save the germs and let’s carbon tax all those greedy capitalists into bankruptcy for the greater glory of Gaia and one world government under the United Nations.
I was excommunicated from the Church of GLO-BULL Warming by the Holy Father Al Gore for Climate Change heresy.
When you control for all other factors, and isolate the impact of CO2, this is what you get. There are real problems with this “science,”
Bravo
Ever notice it’s ALWAYS:
♠ The Central Bankers
♠ The Wall Street Bankers
♠ The Religious Bankers
♠ The One-World-Government
♠ The Globalists
♠ The Super-Elite
♠ Tthe Eyes-Wide-Shut mother effers that are ALWAYS shoving GLOBAL COOLING/WARMING/CHANGE down our freakin’ throats?!!!!!
♠♠♠FAKE NEWS ALERT♠♠♠
THEY’RE ALL LIARS!!!!
THEY ALL WANT US TO LIVE IN SLUMS!!!!!
PUT THEM ALL ON TRIAL FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY!!!!!
End the Fed
Jail the Central Bankers
Death to the New World Order
This left wing demagogue Pope will destroy the Catholic Church. Whatever he says I am not only against but will do all I can to thwart. He’s a commie through and through.
“Manufacture the illusion of dissent”? How about the dissent is real. Is the Catholic Church a dissent denier? Let’s ask the folks in Canada, eh.
For those who think a socialist Pope is a new phenomenon.
I am afraid that, from my teens, I have regarded the catholic church as a bastion of evil.
Will burning at the stake be back to ‘teach’ catholics climate rightiousness?
Better that a marxist Pope direct the churches enormous wealth towards the genuine poor and disadvantaged.
Never again should free men lower their heads before this evil organisation
Marxism and Pope-ism simply don’t go together. … appears to be something wrong with the Church’s hierarchy!
See NOAA sea level data-No change in level trend back to mid 1800s-No ice cap melt=No warming. https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8518750
This so-called steward on earth, the pope, s/b talking about “God’s Kingdom Come” not global warming… This really confirms the Vatican is a political organization masquerading as an earthly steward of the One God Yahweh and His Son Jesus, Mankind’s King and Savior… Think of it… what does global warming have to do with God’s Kingdom Come and being saved? Correct NOTHING!
“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.”
If the Church is going to espouse a political position then they should give up their tax exempt status and register as a political entity.
Isn’t the “Pontifical Academy of Science the same group that said he was “vehemently suspect of heresy”,?
They don’t have to. Noting in the Constitution says that religious organizations (churches) can’t also take political stands. What good would they be if they didn’t teach how to interact with the body politic (everybody) hold the authorities to account?
Sister maria “From the moment of conception we became eternal children of God” So when your are conceived your a catholic? Then why baptism and confirmation? Appears that you need to go reread your doctrine. john tex
As a Catholic priest of 35 years. I grew up with parents, a community, religious sisters who in the 1950s taught us a healthy respect for thd environment. As kids we were taught to waste things was sinful, to throw trash on the ground, or leave lights on unnecessarily, etc. We were green before it was popular. Today I see, with all our education a deep lack of respect among many people, entitlement leads to waste. Look at the hollywood elites, who rail about it and fly private jets, cruse in big yachts, multiply cars, etc.As global warming goes, the verdict is confused, as a Catholic priest I’m far more concerned with warning people about the dangers of Eternal Warming… and how to avoid it.
thread winner!
Here we go again. The new Crusades. Heaven help the unbelievers. The Catholic church recently kicked out a pope to replace him with this guy? Perhaps because of his milquetoast stance on the this subject? I know the church has been losing converts, and is having a hard time competing with 72 virgins, but trying to build their membership by taking orders from the very atheists (spelled GLOBALISTS) they say they are in business to save, seems like a sure road to perdition.
History tells us about a time when a consensus of scientists agreed that the earth was the center of the universe, and all things revolved around it. Excommunication, forfeiture of property, prison, torture, and death awaited the heretics who dared to question the Holy exclamations. Unbelievers! Repent!
Read the document from the Vatican! Of course it says no such thing. This story is simply not true. Priests are not “required to preach gobal warming”! Please inform yourself from the sources. The Church does not teach anything that’s stupid. Christ taught nothing that’s stupid. You should know better, but at least it’s not too late for you. God bless.
Just another reason for non-catholics to look at catholic priests as preaching church doctrine over Christianity.
Not once did anything in quotes state anything about climate change. As Catholics we should care for the environment. Recycle, cut down on smog, throw your trash away, keep toxic waste from seeping into the earth. This is just more fake news. Please don’t believe everything this left wing media tells you. If you want to know what the Pope actually says without the spin go to the Vatican web site.
What happened to GOD? It was my understanding that HE was responsible for creating the Universe and, of course, the Earth. Logically it should be assumed that HE knows about the dangers associated with an overabundance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; surely then HE has a plan to manage the situation.
Sam Dennis asks “What happened to GOD?”
Nothing.
“It was my understanding that…”
As you have seen, many different understandings exist.
The article starts with a lie- a dangerous slanderous lie- that there was a “disinformation campaign” by the US Government and oil companies to “cover up global warming”. This is categorically false. The opposite is true. And once again we see climate extremists projecting their guilty tactics on to their designated villains. The reality is that the climate extremists have covered up the lack of a climate crisis. That my Church and Pope are participating in this lie is deeply troubling on many levels.
Talk about the uninformed preaching to the choir! These noble individuals need to stay out of politics and environmental issues. They do not know what they are talking about and by perpetrating this this lie and hoax, they dishonor and denigrate the church. Shame on them all!