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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.
Utterly disgusting. Separation of church and state…. unless it’s useful to push a progressive globalist agenda.
In the past any person would have been burned at the stake for suggesting such a thing. God did everything, and man had no influence, outside the church,
over it.
Vatican II sealed the fate of the Church over 50 years ago. This issue should be looked at as the natural course of continued destruction with Francis now set as the commander in chief. The SSPX (Society of St Pius the 10th) and their worldwide chapels are the only option left preaching the true faith Jesus Christ taught. Come aboard everyone….. we welcome you with open arms. sspx.org
Sure, as long as Bishop Fellay doesn’t deliver you into the ‘open arms’ of Rome. What then?
“Buona fortuna,” as the Romans say.
This is what happens when the Church’s mission shifts from salvation to this worldly constructs like social justice–usually delivered by an almighty omnipotent government.
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I can’t believe I’m reading this. I was educated in parochial schools. We spent years in conflict with communism sought to free people from it’s grasp. Now they’ve seized the church from within. Now I know Martin Luthor met with the results he did.
Martin was so embarrassed by the way his son Lex turned out.
They are marching after the father of lies, now.
“And though this world with devils filled should threaten to undo us,
We will not fear, for God hath willed his truth to triumph through us.
The prince of darkness, grim, we tremble not for him;
His rage we can endure, for lo! his doom is sure, One little word shall fell him.
That word above all earthly powers, no thanks to them, abideth … ”
Martin Luther
Would that be the same Martin Luther who wrote:
“But if that is not enough for you, you Devil, I have also sh** and pi**ed; wipe your mouth on that and take a hearty bite.
I will give a fart for a staff. You, Satan, Antichrist, or pope can lean on it, a stinking nothing”
Then Mr Johnson states:
Because the Devil drags God’s name and His works through the mud, Luther’s retort to the Devil’s dung is “You go eat it!”
The Catholic Church has jumped the shark and is now a political hybrid promoting salvation through socialism.
Looks like they need more money and are creating another (tax) income stream to redistribute
In short, another false crisis
The Priests of the Temple Syrinx.
Naw, that won’t happen til 2112.
The Catholic Church has become a leftist indoctrination camp under this Pope. I will worship somewhere else.
I can no longer follow a Pope who smiles at Castro, a murdering thug.
There are many good Catholics who realize it’s not the Pope we “follow”– it’s Jesus! Unfortunately Jesus left his Church in the care of fallible, sinful, prideful men. Thus Popes have made errors throughout Church history. But Jesus never errs, and His Truth never changes.
Our Lady warned us at Fatima there would be apostasy and scandals in the priesthood, even in the Vatican. Suggest you link up with other Catholics who understand that the Pope is NOT the Church, only its shepherd, and this one apparently prone to progressivism. Find a parish with a good, solid priest who continues to promote our faith as Jesus taught it.
“paying individual bloggers “?
Where do we sign up ?
Gee, I thought I might be the only one that blogs without monetary compensation here. (sarc)
My gain is intrinsic, that’s priceless.
Interesting that they just want to indoctrinate the new priests. I’m a catholic and I’m just not happy any time the church involves itself in issues that just don’t belong in church. This does fit Weill into their “social justice” policy and “blind faith” preaching.
Expect the Catholic Church to get even smaller!
Every sperm is no longer sacred, I suppose.
No matter where you look with the Global Warming crowd, there is only one thing that ‘helps’ reverse this ‘terrible global warming’,,,,, money. That right there exposes it as a scam.
Bless me Father, for I have demagogued.
I’m a priest, and this is BS
I am a skeptic and a Catholic, so read the article avidly. The referenced document from the Church does not contain the words “climate change”. This is sloppy journalism by Eric.
Michael… Sure it does. In the first sentence of the first paragraph, which was quoted verbatim from the original post the link points to.
Steven,
The document produced by the Catholic Church on priestly formation — not the article that reports on it — does not contain the phrases “climate change” or “global warming”. People should be skeptical of things and check the facts before they comment. Otherwise, they risk looking like warmists.
Michael, you are either a true skeptic or a true catholic you cant be both.
(skeptic a person inclined to question or doubt accepted opinions), that wont sit well with papist proclamations.
A true Pope can only speak (ex cathedra or using the ordinary magisterium) on matters of faith and/or morals. One can be a true skeptic (regarding ‘science’, politics, etc.) and a true Catholic. They are not mutually exclusive.
I’m an independent, or “free will” Baptist so the pope can shove it where the sun don’t shine. I’m beholden to my creator and not to any man no matter how fancy his hats are. What a douche. Also I would like to ponder what our earth would be like if our brave firefighters were not putting out raging forest fires every year. Or maybe they should just let it burn, I mean, God’s will be done right. What arrogance the Vatican has as if God needed man to protect his creations. Here’s a thought Francis, hows about you all stop drinking from the same cup when taking communion and prevent the spread of germs
Don’t get your knickers in a twist. Jorge Bergoglio isn’t a Catholic. He doesn’t profess the Catholic faith. He is an atheist/communist/globalist. No true Catholic could spew the stuff this guy spews.
But you are quite prepared to accept the Catholic Church’s decision as to which books make up the New Testament.
“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.”
I thought the popular concern in the 1970s was global cooling. The 1975 Newsweek cooling world article cited a near consensus among meteorologists:
“Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend… But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century.”
Which would certainly make sense. However, one should always be pretty circumspect when making pronouncement about the future.
I will leave the church!!!!
So sad. Our Church is misinformed about this scientific issue, mostly because their study committee lacked broad experience in the field of climate and weather. The CO2 / Temperature curve is not a straight line, but a curve with an upper limit. An increase of atmosphere to even 100% would not result in global temperatures spoken of by our Church team. The Pope should face a challenge to his telling lies, not about faith, but garbage science.
If some young punk starts preaching from the pulpit about GW I’ll find another Catholc Church to attend
Poser pope wants an army of climate priests to promote the same voodoo of eons past: bring sacrifices to the Temple or be visited by tornadoes and earthquakes and drought!
This is just the amalgamation of two churches.
Good one.
do you all remember when the church would crucify anyone that believed the Earth wasn’t flat, or how about killing those that believed the Earth was not the center of the universe, or you were going straight to Hell if you ate meat on Fridays, or played with your wee-wee….
this is just another VERY STUPID belief that we should NOT BELIEVE….
If priests (and this Pope especially) spent as much time reading and thinking about the Bible as about politics,.they might actually help make the world a better place.
Instead they are working hard to pave the way to a place with serious warming problems.