This is the anniversary the demonic idol worship in the Vatican Gardens. It was 2019…
Sursum podices!
In another post, I suggest several days of penance and reparation for this and the placement of a idol bowl on the altar of St. Peter’s on 7 Oct 2023. Please, everyone.
About the opening of “W-T” about “W-T”, be sure to read Robert Royal at The Catholic Thing.
For example:
The deepest question behind all these specific questions remains: What is Synodality? The philosopher Stefano Fontana, speaking at the same conference with Cardinal Burke and our Fr. Gerald Murray yesterday evening in Rome, put forward the thesis that the goal is a Church perpetually in Synodality. That nothing will remain solid; everything will be in constant process of revision to respond to the “times.”
“Synodality,” then, by its nature cannot be defined, not even in the sense of being ambiguous. It will turn the Church into an institution that does not defend and promote the teachings of its Founder, Jesus Christ. A “synodal” Church, which the current pope seeks, will not only be in motion this month and next year, but perpetually. No one today can say what it really means, because it will be in perpetual self-definition.
This is also the day that the new Apostolic Exhortation (Laudato sì 2.0) called Laudate Deum is out, about climate change. I had it about a week ago and found it tedious and bullying.
For example,
5. Despite all attempts to deny, conceal, gloss over or relativize the issue, the signs of climate change are here and increasingly evident. No one can ignore the fact that in recent years we have witnessed extreme weather phenomena,…. Nonetheless, it is verifiable that specific climate changes provoked by humanity are notably heightening the probability of extreme phenomena that are increasingly frequent and intense.
11. It is no longer possible to doubt the human – “anthropic” – origin of climate change.
[…]
14. I feel obliged to make these clarifications, which may appear obvious, because of certain dismissive and scarcely reasonable opinions that I encounter, even within the Catholic Church. Yet we can no longer doubt that the reason for the unusual rapidity of these dangerous changes is a fact that cannot be concealed: the enormous novelties that have to do with unchecked human intervention on nature in the past two centuries.
[…]
And this. Really?
72. If we consider that emissions per individual in the United States are about two times greater than those of individuals living in China, and about seven times greater than the average of the poorest countries,we can state that a broad change in the irresponsible lifestyle connected with the Western model would have a significant long-term impact. As a result, along with indispensable political decisions, we would be making progress along the way to genuine care for one another.
Americans are to blame. Thank heavens for the Chinese.
And even to doubt the “anthropic origin” of climate change is now double-plus ungood wrong think.
In other news, the Bollettino today indicates that the newly-minted Card. Fernandez, distinguished author, has been appointed as a member of Catholic Education. If I am not mistaken it was the Congregation for Education that blocked Fernandez from heading up the Catholic University in Argentina waaaay back in the time of Benedict XVI. A little irony for your Wednesday.
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“Care for one another” is not exactly how I would phrase the Communist Party’s kleptocratic policies. But I suppose it’s not how I would phrase the Bergoglian Party’s kleptocratic policies, either.
Those (erroneous) climate statements seem to be written by someone with Greta Thunberg level intellect.
Sorry I can’t come up with something wittier, but it’s just so bad.
Concerning the question of emissions, I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the paragraph where it talks about the emissions per individual among the hierarchy and various international and wealthy guests the Vatican seems to perpetually host, and then calls for a change in their irresponsible lifestyles connected to this Western model of endless meetings, conferences and flying to them.
Nevermind, I don’t even need to check. It’s obviously there.
The one infinitesimally-tiny glimmer of hope in all that is mention of an “irresponsible lifestyle connected with the Western model”, our throwaway society, making idols of the latest and greatest tech with scarcely any consideration for who makes it, or under what conditions, even who gets richer from it all…
There are three key questions with respect to “climate change,” with decreasing levels of certainty as one progresses through the list:
1/Is it happening?
2/Is it purely or mostly anthropic?
3/Is it harmful?
There is nothing close to a “consensus” that it is causing, say, extreme weather conditions, which one assumes are the “extreme phenomena” Bergoglio (or whoever wrote this political tract) asserts.
In any event, we have strayed far from faith and morals here, and this exhortation is about as binding on the faithful as the fulminations of a town crank.
What part of “…world without end, Amen” don’t they understand? Great book, ‘Unsettled’ by Koonin, explains how the science is inconclusive on all of this.
The wrong idol got tossed in the Tiber.
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Permanent Synodality = Permanent Revolution.
Bergoglian Trotskyism.
So when fire and brimstone rain down from heaven do to sin that James Martin talks about all the time, will the pope blame climate change then too?
The “frequency of extreme weather conditions” thesis has already been debunked:
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-increase-in-hurricane-frequency-hypothesis-is-overblown/
But that aside, when did Rome become experts in meteorology or climate science? They only embarrass themselves when they do this.
But I understand that anthropogenic climate change has become the new religion, with its own dogmas that must never be questioned, lest you’re willing to be cast into the darkness of the unenlightened. And the Catholic religion is so old hat – you need to get on board with the NEW religion.
We are watching a process of conversion at all levels of the Church hierarchy.
Folks need to study the history of the Protestant revolt. Catholics need to remember that Catholics converted and became Protestant. That is obvious but many today seem to have lost that point in all the shuffle. It happened then and it has happened since and it is happening now, in this case with the creation of a new denomination, the so-called “Synodal Church”.
A key point to remember about the 16th century which applies today is that converts don’t always convert overnight. This also seems to escape many Catholics who see the Protestant revolt as a sort of event like the throwing of a light switch that remade certain nations from Catholic to Protestant with some immediacy. In fact, regions took time and remained in transition in some cases for many years, with various doctrines gaining support, some not. Thus different Protestant “denominations” emerged.
Valid Priests & Bishops became Protestant but not all at once. Variable teaching existed with individuals converting over time, remaining nominally Catholic long after they had ceased to believe. Just as we see occurring today.
An example:
Hans Rev was the last Catholic Bishop of Oslo, Norway.
Hans Rev was the first Lutheran Superintendent of Oslo, Norway.
Folks should take note: Hans Rev did not convert at his Lutheran swearing-in ceremony. He had been in process for some time. Such a process naturally involves for many undermining the existing Catholic faith before a formal break occurs. Just as we see occurring today.
The Protestant revolt on the Continent was not really settled for almost 100 years and the English iteration took many years of back and forth between Protestant and Catholic periods. It was a mess. Just as we see occurring today.
Do you think the Pope reads (or has a translation provided to him) this blog? It sometimes seems as though he is lashing out directly at your cohort.
Gee, I remember being told back in 2013 that he’s so humble.
Pope seems to want the Church in perpetual motion.
Since the year 1230 very educated people have tried to make perpetual motion a reality. They have always failed. So will the Pope.
I like sending this link to people who are very agitated about global wa–er, climate change being an Extremely Pressing and Highly Urgent Matter (check the date): https://web.archive.org/web/20200924233458/https://apnews.com/article/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
(The AP removed both the article title and date from their site, hence the archive.org.)