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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.
Maybe they figure they can abuse more little boys if they hide behind this politically-correct nonsense.
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…
Nice! My check from big oil/coal/gas/fossil should be arriving any day now. 🙂 That will certainly help with the heating bills this winter!
/snark
a church that hid pedophiles is not pushing a fake science. ..OUTSTANDING
GASEOUS AL GORE, DOOMSDAY CULT CHAIRMAN OF THE APOCALYPSE
The planet has been “cooling” for at least the past 18 years, or so — the recent cook-the-books massage job by NOAA notwithstanding. And the so-called “experts” have never “once” demonstrated, recorded, or proven human causation for “any” global warming — it’s all been projections based on computer models subject to bad historical data, divergent / incompatible or inconsistent instrumentation, exaggeration and the-sky-is-falling alarmism, and manipulation-for-profit — for taxpayer-paid government grants, carbon-credits schemes, and studies required by environmentalist wacko government regulations.
The anthropogenic [“man-made”] global warming religion has proven very profitable for those who own the religion and who drag around by the rings in their noses the useful idiots, airheads, and drooling, googley-eyed, bobble-headed sycophants who have an intense itch to be followers, “a part of a cause bigger than themselves” — who project an arrogant condescension onto ignorant, unbrainwashed dissidents.
Contemplate Gaseous Al Gore — that lying fa sc ist sack of s hi t and doomsday cult Chairman Of The Apocalypse — who sold his failed global-warming alarmist TV station to Al Jazeera — a propaganda arm of some murderous oil dictatorship, somewhere out there in Kaboomistan.
Now, didn’t Al Gore buy a 6,500 square-foot, $9 million, very-high carbon-footprint mansion in Montecito — “only” 480 feet above sea level where it is sure to be inundated by the HUGELY TOWERING WAVES of polar ice cap melt celebrated in scare-em-silly fictional environmentalist quack movies — if his bul ls hirt theory of man-made global warming actually proves true to reality? And this is in addition to his 10,000 square-foot mansion in Tennessee, another huge carbon footprint! And hasn’t OhBummer already bought the ocean-front Magnum-PI property in Hawaii? His bloody “rising seas” ought to swamp and drown him — else he is a lying hypocrite.
I have no problem with people becoming fabulously rich in the capitalist system, but the stink of hypocrisy of Gaseous Al Gore — that lying fascist skunk — is annoying. He must be laughing up his sleeve at all the idiots who have enriched him through his scam, his hoax, his fraudulent religion — man-made global warming.
So desperate now are the profiteers of his nutty religion that they are resorting once again to Hollyweird for scary big-screen movies and TV shows to carry their lunatic propaganda.
They turn scientific method on its head, demanding that skeptics prove “that there is not” any man-made global warming, but no one is obliged to prove any such thing — for the same reason that we are not obliged to prove that the moon “is not” made of green cheese.
It tells me something useful about opposing the OhBummer dictatorship when my reference to the moon and the green cheese in the past year was hijacked for an OhBummer speech. Possibly his speech was written by Biden The Magnificent, that lobotomized serial plagiarist who serves as OhBummer’s principal criminal accessory.
The ecofreaks and enviromaniacs? Destroy them. Let’s just focus on ensuring clean air and clean water.
Replace asterisks with periods, below. ~:<)
http://dailycaller*com/2016/10/24/top-university-stole-millions-from-taxpayers-by-faking-global-warming-research/
http://www*tpnn*com/2014/03/17/weather-channel-founder-explains-the-history-of-the-global-warming-hoax/
http://www*climatedepot*com/2014/12/30/global-sea-ice-breaks-all-time-record-high-antarctic-sea-ice-also-breaks-all-time-record-high/
http://dailycaller*com/2015/06/04/noaa-fiddles-with-climate-data-to-erase-the-15-year-global-warming-hiatus/
http://www*investors*com/politics/commentary/warming-alarmists-redefine-what-a-hurricane-is-so-well-have-more-of-them/
http://realclimatescience*com/2016/10/more-on-the-noaa-texas-temperature-fraud/
Always thought that GW was a religion this sort of proves it.
Eighteen mentions of “Galileo” so far (this is 19th mention), four Martin Luthers and a partridge in a pear tree.
Why are you defending socialists using the Catholic Church to push their agenda?
You forgot my Whore of Babylon mention. That (pun intended) trumps Martin Luther and Galileo any day of the Julian calendar.
I would like to thank the Catholic church for continuing to remind me why I am no longer a Catholic.
Is it because you are now a “zombie”?
Only on occasion as it is a timeshare.
More misrepresentation of what was said. And then the anti-Catholic folks crawl out of their shadowy corners. Typical.
i.e. any opinion other than Catholic Church doctrine is HERSEY! Flogging will begin in ten minutes.
The Pope is harming his own credibility and the credibility of the Catholic Church by siding with the climate change alarmists.
The climate change alarmists do not have the science on their side, regardless of what they claim. The public climate change debate is about to begin and the Pope is going to be on the wrong side of it. He should hold off making pronouncements on the climate for a while until he sees how things unfold.
Faith in Global Warming supplants faith in Jesus Christ.
” We are called to be stewards of creation”
We are not called to put creation ahead of stewardship of our fellow man, friend and enemy alike.
At this moment the only thing keeping third world nations from industrializing is the greed of the rulers.
Pope Francis validating their excuses for oppression of humanity only sends the message that this earth and our existence on it is the most important thing to us, instead of focusing on the “heavenly reward”.
We should seek to use the earth in a way which benefits all men and trust the destiny of this temporary dwelling to its maker. That is what my father opined as a minister.
From his mentoring came the gist of this hymn:
An Ode to the Church
On Fighting Climate Change
Bureaucrats and Global Planners
Speak in agitated manners,
Predicating great disaster:
“Climate change we now must master!”
Human guilt and blame beseeching:
“Children, shame we should be teaching!
Man has sinned by overreaching
Fragile Gaia’s limit!”
Beware their bold apostasy,
Their prophesy is vanity!
The firmaments will never be
Controlled by mortal hands.
So, use this world, as best you can,
To take care of your fellow man
And leave Earth’s destiny to God’s great plan!
The Universe is God’s, alone
Commanding elements He owns.
Perplexes any man’s control,
Yet, still provides for every soul!
Everyone should forward this documentary to their Catholic friends, the Pope and Donald Trump. The Catholic Church is making this move at just the wrong time.
https://youtu.be/QowL2BiGK7o?t=16m49s
In matters of science, are we to have faith in the same Catholic Church that viciously persecuted Copernicus, Galileo & Newton for their scientific discoveries?
Please see and read our letter to Pope Francis on his misguided positions on climate change and energy linked below: 24 September 2015
His Holiness, Pope Francis
Apostolic Palace
00120 Vatican City State
Your Holiness:
As the leader of 1.5 billion Catholics…almost one quarter of the entire world population…your initiatives on calling for the increased prosperity of the world’s poor as well as the protection of the Earth’s environment are remarkable.
However, many eminent scientists say “climate change as caused by man” is not an entirely settled matter. Carbon dioxide emissions alone may not have significant impact on temperatures and climate change. Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is, of course, the opinion of many scientists, and perhaps more importantly, political institutions that benefit from that opinion. One should be mindful of Galileo Galilei’s famous letter to the Grand Duchess Christina written in 1615.
“Certainly no one doubts that the Supreme Pontiff has always an absolute power to approve or condemn; but it is not in the power of any created being to make things true or false, for this belongs to their own nature and to the fact. Therefore in my judgment one should first be assured of the necessary and immutable truth of the fact, over which no man has power. This is wiser counsel than to condemn either side in the absence of such certainty, thus depriving oneself of continued authority and ability to choose by determining things which are now undetermined, open and still lodged in the will of supreme authority.”
In brief, it may be impossible to conclude today, based on the best scientific means and analysis available, that the use of fossil fuels increases the mean global temperature or directly alters climate conditions. It is 100% clear beyond any reasonable doubt that the use of fossil fuels by man has provided an unprecedented level of elevated human condition; i.e. abundant food production, transportation, safe and secure housing, medical treatments, and the like. One only needs to study the conditions in pre-industrialized Europe to appreciate the modern energy based standard of living and human life expectancies.
Perhaps the real problem is not climate change, per se. The real problem may be the inequality of the energy available to people in industrialized nations such as America versus those of undeveloped nations. We note that in order for all people in the world to have the daily per capita energy of Americans, we would have to increase current worldwide energy production by a factor of 8; furthermore, 90% of today’s energy comes from fossil fuels.
Entire letter at: http://fusion4freedom.us/letter-to-pope-francis/
You’d be better off addressing this to his followers. It’s wasted on him.
Timid responses to Evil are part of the problem. Who cares if the Pope is the so called leader of 1.5 billion people. When he is wrong he is wrong. This 16th century petition to the Pope is entirely wrong for the 21st Century. This Medieval institution should have been buried centuries ago. He should be told in no uncertain terms to get out of the issue.
“Certainly no one doubts that the Supreme Pontiff has always an absolute power to approve or condemn…” Poppycock. The Pope is simply another cheap and purchasable politician lording it over a billion deluded souls. This is the essence of the problem. People who respect themselves should tell him to get up and go.
Yet with some further thought it may be that we indeed need a 16th century solution to this problem. Is there anyone out there with the power and authority who will put armies into the field to tell this Pope to get up and go?
The Soros Pope disgraces Himself once again.
Personally, I wish the Catholic Church would resurrect the Crusades. Muslims are a FAR greater danger to the climate and Western society. Not to mention a far greater danger to the Catholic Church. And yes, I am a catholic. The moment my priest stars preaching about climate change I am out the door.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS A MAN-MADE FRAUD !!! “More Than 1000 International Scientists
Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims”: http://cfact.org/pdf/2010_Senate_Minority_Report.pdf
The Catholic Church is again being used for useful idiots just as Hitler used them.
This isn’t an official statement from the Church. It’s from a writer who belongs to the “California Network” and posts on a Catholic web forum. Don’t be duped into fake news. It’s in the globalist interest to destroy Christianity which is why the attacks on the Church have been so intense.
At one time the Catholic Church espoused the disinterested search for truth in scientific matters. Apparently, under the current Pope, that is no more. I am glad Trump is not a Catholic and hope he will clean the global warming rent-seekers out of the US government.
This is the co-opting of the Catholic Church for political reasons that the Podesta emails discussed. Why would the pope allow himself to become stooge of the pro-death, anti-life extremists?
Really? So no mention of the fact that much of the data behind so called climate change is false? Hello email hacks from the “leaders in climate change” Funny how everyone on the left fails to even mention that the data is false. And now, this Communist Pope wants to use the authority, falsely claimed by the church, to preach climate change? I am no Catholic, but I do understand lies when I hear them. If you read this and don’t believe that this Pope is a Communist, you just haven’t done your homework. Please read his rants to business leaders and politicians. just blindly follow, which is exactly what the Catholic Church wants. Just continue to follow your priest to the gates of hell while the “church” protects monsters who rape and abuse children.
This Pope is no friend to freedom, just watch what happens with him and the Muslims. Be warned this Pope is all for the subjugation of your freedom in the name of Scripture. Also I thought pure and undefiled religion was to help the orphans and widows? Not to eliminate poverty? Christ said the poor will always be with you. So continue to worship your idols(the Pope is a Maryist, look it up) and gentle slip down the road to damnation. At this point I really can’t understand why anyone would choose to remain a Catholic.
Under what religious mandate does the Catholic Church derive the responsibility to care for the environment?
Sounds like mission creep to me
Whatever happened to “Thou shall bring no false idols before me”?
The catholic church is headed by a Marxist. God help us.
If the Catholic Church is interested in bringing back wayward members of its flock, this will do the opposite. The Church of my father and my youth is no more.