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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.
Add this to one of the many reasons I am no longer a Catholic. This pope disgusts me.
The Catholic Church (the institution, the buildings) were taken over by non-Catholic entities a long time ago. That’s why this “pope” disgusts you. He isn’t Catholic and he isn’t the pope. There are Catholics in chapels and small churches around the world who still hold to the Catholic faith. You can find them if you’re interested in tradition. traditio (dot) com is a good place for information.
Horsesxht….but with a papal blessing
Come, come join the Protestant Reformation against the authority of the Pope. 300,000 ancestors died for their faith that the Pope can be, and is wrong! The Quincentennial Anniversary of Martin Luther 95 Theses is 31 October 2017. Rejoice. Send the Pope his ’95 theses’ again.
Back in the 20th century, the Communists tried, in vain, to extirpate religion. They eventually realized this was a HUGE mistake. It only succeeded in alienating the proletariat they wished to dominate.
Now they’re back, now working from the _inside_ of the nations they intend to conquer. They have learned their lesson, and are quietly infiltrating and integrating seamlessly (more or less) with religious groups, intending to make them allies in their struggle to dominate and conquer the world.
Even the Russian Orthodox Church is now growing in the United States. The newest clergy tend to include younger, more liberal-minded, non-Russian speaking, activists, who are attracted by the ‘sanctifying’ themes in Eastern Orthodoxy. For example, that ‘original sin’ can be sanctified by activist deeds.
http://thewandererpress.com/catholic/news/featured-today/eastern-orthodoxy-and-original-sin/
I’m still waiting my fossil fuel funding. Anybody here (sceptic that is) ever received any?
People been tellin g me I am on the Big Oil payroll for 25 years, have yet to receive a single paycheck. Does that seem right? Who do I sue!!!!! 😉
In the 60’s – 70’s the left preached Global Freezing. When that did not catch on, they switched to the warming con. For the church to mandate the current teachings is unfathomable.
And they think the pews are empty now…….
Wait till winter…. heaven just froze over too…
From Church’s statement: “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.”
Only problem is, in the late 1970’s the global alarmists (socialists) were screaming of the coming ice age from fossil fuel burning. Hmmmm, maybe they aren’t very smart or scientific. Why should we listen to their carbon tax redistribution scheme now. The pope should keep his mouth shut more.
Is this the same Catholic Church that in the 17th century investigated Galileo by inquisition and found him to be “vehemently suspect of heresy”, as he had the temerity to contradict the “Holy Scripture”. He was forced to recant his scientific findings and lived the rest of his life under house arrest. This is an example of what happens to non believers of a belief based culture that presumes it is all knowing. Does any of this sound familiar?
The same Catholic Church that came up with the Big Bang theory.
Sounds just like Islam.
Yes, we can all trust the Catholic Church when it comes to science, just look at the case of Galileo!!!!
Modern Inquisition begins
Problem is THIS time we are well armed and trained. Wonder how many priests are willing to martyr themselves for socialism?
Is this a pathetic attempt by the Legacy Pope to ingratiate the Legacy Church with the Legacy Media?
Timothy 4:3-4English Standard Version (ESV):
“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. ”
I guess the Bible was right about that one.
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Perfect citation! Isn’t it amazing how human nature 2,000 years ago showed the same flaws as human nature today?
Only the technology of implements changes.
Amen.
Every time I think about going back to mass, His Holiness comes out with another stupid idea to make our TRUE RELIGION less like a religion than a social movement. Please go back to Argentina.
So then the Church will speak out against the population explosion — most of which is in the Third World and among Third World people living among us? Great! Let’s have compulsory birth control for poor people (after ONE child)!
Has the Holy See began installing solar panels to reduce their carbon impact? Leadership by example shows this Pope is putting the Church’s money where is mouth is.
“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, ”
that is a lie!!! I graduated in 1971. The liberals were all about Nuclear Winter. This article is trash…
As I have said (I think) the days of AGW theory being viable are going to end as global cooling which began earlier this year will continue to evolve. First stage was the ending of El Nino and one can see OLR increasing now as a result of this.
My solar theory in one sentence is– Extremely low solar conditions that are persistent will push the terrestrial items which control the climate toward modes which will result in the albedo of the earth to increase therefore promoting cooling.
The 500 mb level in the N.H. seems to be showing an overall cooling trend of late. What I want to see is for this trend to continue but for the poles to be warm relative to the lower latitudes at this level.
This time in the climate is at a crossroads to my way of thinking and this next 6 to 12 months could be very telling.
I also like the overall snow coverage in the N.H. and it looks like it will be going more above average within the next few days, from a level very slightly above average as of today.
Sea surface temperatures overall are on the decline as far as I can tell.
Ultimately it’s more about the Vatican embracing globalism and eventually a one-world order led by none other than the antichrist. This story adds more validity to the speculation that that the ‘beast’ who becomes the antichrist’s helper as described in Revelation will be the Catholic church.
A Great way to turn off Catholic youth who can READ ABOUT REAL SCIENCE AND FACTS !
Yes, btw Galileo you are going to jail because the earth is FLAT.
GG was imprisoned because he advocated that the earth moves, not that it’s flat.
Yes, and George Soros funds a great deal of faux “climate science” research. Does anyone else suspect there’s a snake in the Vatican gardens?
Are you kidding? Only one snake??? The place is crawling with marranos.
[Anthony: a misplaced typo (letter ‘u’) ended up in my email address, causing my post to be held in moderation. Corrected, now using my correct email]
-Johanus
Not knocking the Philippines…just an example.
86% Catholic and the population doubled in the past 35 years. Grew more than the entire population of Canada in just 25 years!
Climate a problem? No. Just vulnerability of the ever increasing population of poor people.
Duarte, head of the Philippines, has pushed birth control and said, approximately, “The church says you will go to hell if you practice birth control; I say we have hell right here now.”
Climate Change = Original Sin, a concept the Catholic Church has been using for 2K years to make the membership feel perpetually guilty. Just a new way to adapt the religion to the prevailing culture.
Note to Catholics, you may preach “climate change” but the left still won’t like you.