The eco-encyclical is out … all 184 pages of it. And, sad to me, Pope Francis did say he thinks climate change should be of grave concern. Pbltt.
I gotta say, I’m not entirely surprised that Satan has managed to use him to make a non-doctrinal statement that will help Anti-Christ become dictator of the world.
But let me reiterate in the strongest terms. It’s NON-DOCTRINAL.
We were only promised that the Holy Spirit would protect the teaching authority of the Church on issues of faith and morals.
The Pope has no more authority or expertise in climate science than does Al Gore.
Consider how very, very helpful the U.S. Bishops were in shoving Obamacare down our throats. WE WARNED THEM the Left would use it to violate our religious freedoms, but they patted us on the head and told us we were just being so, so silly.
But back to the encyclical. Predictably, the Pontiff’s opinion about climate change is the ONLY thing the Left is interested in discussing.
Pope Francis said the following in his encyclical as well.
“It is enough to recognize that our body itself establishes us in a direct relationship with the environment and with other living beings. The acceptance of our bodies as God’s gift is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift from the Father and our common home, whereas thinking that we enjoy absolute power over our own bodies turns, often subtly, into thinking that we enjoy absolute power over creation. Learning to accept our body, to care for it and to respect its fullest meaning, is an essential element of any genuine human ecology. Also, valuing one’s own body in its femininity or masculinity is necessary if I am going to be able to recognize myself in an encounter with someone who is different. In this way we can joyfully accept the specific gifts of another man or woman, the work of God the Creator, and find mutual enrichment. It is not a healthy attitude which would seek ‘to cancel out sexual difference because it no longer knows how to confront it’.”
And,
Since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of nature is also incompatible with the justification of abortion. How can we genuinely teach the importance of concern for other vulnerable beings, however troublesome or inconvenient they may be, if we fail to protect a human embryo, even when its presence is uncomfortable and creates difficulties? ‘If personal and social sensitivity towards the acceptance of the new life is lost, then other forms of acceptance that are valuable for society also wither away’.”
Sooooo … if somebody tries to heap Pope Guilt on you for being a Catholic Climate Skeptic, explain that Pope Francis has zero teaching authority on the issue of climate science and, oh by the way, on those issues of FAITH AND MORALS where he DOES have authority? He upheld Catholic Tradition about sexual differences and abortion.
ENCYCLICAL LETTER
LAUDATO SI’
OF THE HOLY FATHER
FRANCIS
ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME
http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html
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