The following comes from a December 3 San Diego Union-Tribune article by Joshua Emerson Smith:
Opposition to abortion and the death penalty have long been cardinal beliefs for the Roman Catholic church, whose faithful make up about a quarter of all Americans.
What if fighting climate change becomes an equally passionate issue in parishes nationwide?
The foremost group of Catholic leaders in the U.S. is ramping up a campaign to do just that, urging priests and congregations from San Diego to Atlanta to think about global warming as a sanctity-of-life issue.
Some Catholic experts have even likened the growing campaign to deal with human-caused climate change to the revered pro-life movement — calling on the laity to do everything from cutting back on consumerism to installing energy-efficient light bulbs to personally asking lawmakers to take action.
Parishes nationwide, notably the Archdiocese of Chicago, are pursuing energy- and water-efficiency overhauls of their churches, schools and other buildings. Their moves are inspired by Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical last year — titled “Laudato Si’” — that implored governments to protect the planet, and especially the disadvantaged, against current and projected effects of climate change.
In San Diego County, for example, two dozen churches and schools have or are in the process of installing solar panels. The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego expects all 99 parishes in its territory to do the same within a few years.
The nationally coordinated effort to curb greenhouse-gas emissions is the biggest official campaign by any organized religion. It comes as the Catholic leadership mounts what appears to be an escalated and high-profile agenda to oppose policies ostensibly supported by President-elect Donald Trump, including issues of immigration and social justice for the poor.
“It’s clear that climate change is a pro-life issue,” said Sarah Spengeman with Catholic Climate Covenant, a nonprofit formed in 2006 by leading U.S. bishops to work on ecological issues. “People are being killed by climate change already, so it’s very core to our beliefs.”
Such reasoning has been met with vocal pushback from conservative Catholic circles.
“Some activist groups who would like Catholics to agree with their preferred climate policies claim that climate change is equivalent to abortion, but that makes no sense,” said Jay Richards, an economics professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington and a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation. “Procured abortion, according to settled Catholic teaching, involves an intrinsic moral evil. What’s the equivalent intrinsic moral evil with respect to climate change? There isn’t one.”
This fall, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Climate Covenant rolled out a program aimed at mobilizing action around Pope Francis’ encyclical, which outlined a moral obligation for combating climate change.
On Tuesday, the San Diego diocese — which covers this region and Imperial County — is set to become the latest location to host the program, dubbed “Laudato Si’ in the Parish.” Others that have done so include dioceses in Atlanta; Des Moines, Iowa; and Las Cruces, New Mexico. The program is scheduled to be implemented in at least 10 more regions next year.
The program’s foundations emerged from an ethical notion championed by Pope Francis that climate change through increased storms, flooding and drought will have an outsized impact on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations, people who often are the least responsible for emitting greenhouse gases.
In San Diego, Bishop Robert McElroy said he ranks abortion and global warming as his two most pressing issues.
“Climate change and the environment in general really have to do with the continuation of life on our planet, and thus we really have to come to grips with the fact that we are depleting the resources of the created order at such a rate that humanity won’t be able to survive unless we change the patterns that we’ve been engaged in,” he said.
As for his flock of lay Catholics, McElroy said they’re still “very mixed” when it comes to understanding climate change, being concerned about it and making life changes in response.
“There’s a certain uphill struggle to it, but that’s true of any of these meaningful issues,” he said. “We just keep doing it.”
Credited by the Vatican with helping Pope Francis better comprehend the impact of climate change on the world’s most vulnerable people, scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan is scheduled to speak to Catholic leaders at Tuesday’s program launch event in San Diego. Partnering with the scientific community has been a staple of the pope’s climate-change agenda.
Practical advice being shared with the United States’ 195 Catholic bishops, who oversee more than 19,000 priests and their parishes, has largely focused on conducting professional energy audits, but has also included strategies ranging from limiting use of foam food containers to lobbying Congress to support the United Nations’ green climate fund, which helps developing countries pay for their transition to renewable energy.
Git outta here !!!
Catholic leaders? No, this is not Catholic leadership. Faithful Catholics recognize Catholic leadership when they see it and hear it. This ear tickling nonsense is about distractions, distractions and more distractions away from the True Faith. Wolves in sheep’s clothing are continually misleading the trusting sheep with the promotion of illegal immigration, fear mongering need of sanctuary campuses, global warming, solar panels, so-called LBGT families and now even Communion for clear conscience adulterers.
This is why St. Athanasius said, “The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops!” = IOW Eternal Warming!
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” The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.”
…… Pope St. Pius X
Pope Francis and his army of clone bishops have been duped big time. They have fallen for Al Gore and his musings on climate change. But have these men – who are supposed to be among the most learned – not heard the other side of the climate change story? Apparently not. It was widely reported in the news several years ago about a group of scientists in the UK, who falsely altered their statistics on climate and were publicly disgraced when the truth came out. Of course we have climate change – it is called weather. And through the centuries we have various cycles of weather patterns. For any one to say that climate change is on an even par with abortion is ridiculous. I will not pay any attention to such a person. If the Diocese…
Laudato, only the headline claimed that climate change is “on the same level” as abortion. The Bishop said something different, which you will see if you read the story.
The story about altering climate change statistics has to do with changing the assumptions used in interpreting the data, not the data itself. Every data set is interpreted with a collection of assumptions. The reason why these things are published is so that scientists can use the same data but apply different assumptions, and then publish the conclusions. That’s how science works.
For updated information about climate change, please see: https://climate.nasa.gov/
Sorry Your Fellow Catholic, but Bishop McElroy very clearly states that climate control and abortion are his two most important issues. You might do well to read the entire article yourself!!!
To think that any person with the ability to think and reason could ever put climate change on an even par with abortion = murder of the innocent pre-born is beyond belief. The Bishop needs to get a heart. He also needs a refresher course in moral theology.
Typical of a Saul Alinsky tactic, ‘clothe your agenda with an issue your opponent cares about.’
If the Diocese of San Diego wants to spend money on solar this and that so be it. I for one only have one voice and it is my purse. I will no longer make any contribution to my local parish. And I will no longer contribute one penny to the Bishop’s Annual Appeal. Instead, I will send my money to Pro-life groups and to other sensible charitable organizations.
Anti-Abortion
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!
There is also a “certain uphill struggle” in getting you to observe your responsibilities to your flock, Excellency. Your pictured church looks like something fresh out of a Lemony Snicket story. What exactly is wrong with you, Bishop McElroy? You and your higher-status pal, Cardinal Cupich, fall all over yourselves on issues such as immigration, wage fairness, climate control/global warming, environmental issues — all things that have nothing — not a thing — to do with saving one immortal soul among those you have charge to protect and lead toward salvation.
For their good, you, Biship McElroy should immediately resign. To those within the Diocese of San Diego, stop paying for the lush life of this failed cleric. Give your…
(Part Deux) ( . . . Treasure to one of several good and valuable Catholic Traditional, and orthodox, orders (all of which teach and live by God’s word and minister His sacraments as if their lives depended on it). Stop sending any, any, money to B. McElroy. Just think of the good that your hard-earned money would do for the Little Sisters of the Poor, or to the Benedictines of Mary, or to the FSSP or to the ICKSP, or many other such organizations. Or join another parish entirely as an auxiliary, such as Star of the Sea in San Francisco.
The madness of being led by people such as B. McElroy must end. If he will not repent, then raise a din that is heard by even the tin-ears in the Vatican. And stop the flow of dollars to them.
I agree with what you say.
On a side note–your description of that church building is right on. I was looking at the photo unable to put into words the uncomfortable feeling it inspired. Perfect..
Sarah Spengeman, Ph.D., of “‘Catholic’ Climate Covenant”, bears close attention: she previously worked for the radical left US Catholic sisters’ lobby group “Network Lobby” as “Education and Mobilization Manager”, until this 9/2016:
https://networklobby.org/
You have to go to this site for Network Lobby to see the purely leftwing political causes funded by your US “catholic” (small ‘c’) sisters groups.
Her long history has been as an animal rights’ activist: “House Rabbit Society” (yes, they ‘rescued’ rabbits used in testing studies); “Farm Sanctuary”, Humane Society; but also, you will love this: she was involved with the now-notorious “Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund” that ripped off millions of…
…dollars from Haitians (but got Hugh Rodham Clinton a nice referral payoff), and my personal favorite, the “Southern Poverty Law Center”, which has named just about every traditional Catholic group as a hate-group.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-spengeman-ph-d-002b852
I think our US bishops keep interesting advisors clasped tightly to their collective breast. And you think they work for you?
There is so much to comment on, regarding the typical cadre of left-wing causes our loving bishops decorate themselves with, with Catholics’ hard-earned collections money:
I neglected to point out that “Network Lobby”, for hich Ms. Spengeman previously was a high-level “Mobilization Manager”, is the funding group behind “Nuns on the Bus”. Just to “connect all the networks”.
No matter what else you think of Donald Trump, he did this country one huge favor: HE FINALLY RID US OF THOSE GOD-FORSAKEN CLINTONS. Liars, con-men, thieves, relentless self-promoters— all of them, even the in-laws.
GOOD RIDDANCE!
Thank you for revealing the true face of these deceptive “Catholic leaders” and who they keep as their closest collaborators. This says it all. If someone asks again-what is this Bishop thinking- there is the answer.
Ms. Spengeman (darn, there is so much on this new mouthpiece for the US bishops!) appears also was active in conjunction with Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, only one of the groups that even the staid, plaid-pants Catholic League acknowledges is a Soros-funded group:
https://www.catholicleague.org/george-soros-funds-catholic-left/
Oh: and from Aug. 2008-Dec 2011 she was a “social-studies teacher” at Holy Names High School in Oakland (according to her own “Linked-In” site). You can imagine what your dear baby snowflakes were learning in her class those years. She left in mid-year (again, see her own “Linked-In” site)—rather unusual for a high school teacher—and doesn’t list any employment for 6 mos. We…
…can imagine what your dear baby snowflakes were learning for their $14,000/year tuition in her classes, dear Theophilus.
No matter, now the US bishops have a swell job for her now. And you think they work for you…
By the way, don’t confuse “Catholics United for the Common Good” with the orthodox “Catholics for the Common Good”: the latter group does its best to promote Catholic teaching, in general.
Thanks for the info!
A while back I worked with a non church related local citizens group against some of the local do-gooder environmental groups (who, of course, have nationwide support).
To them it’s a religion. I don’t want them affecting MY religion. Of course we are to be stewards of God’s creation…but not in the totalitarian direction they want us to go!
We must be vigilant at the parish level.
God made the world. He controls the climate. End of discussion.
Amen to that….
You literally think that we can pour thousands of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, cut down millions of acres of trees, are able to measure CO2 increase, watch the ice caps melt and the sea level rise – yet God is going to undo all that damage? When, exactly, should we expect that to happen?
Anonymous, I think it is more important to worry about what might happen to the world if Francis does not consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary as was requested at Fatima.
God made it and He runs His perfect design at such deep, complex levels that humans are, err…clueless. Some perspective: We are TINY, like ants, on the surface of God’s creation. Isn’t it pure hubris to think ourselves genius to have discovered a hole in God’s perfect world? Funny. Or that God has not thought of this or that (CO2, Ice caps, sea levels, etc.). For those of you worried (=brain washed), about ‘faux climate’, a hint: it’s about elite globalist controlling you! They place blame on climate (hey, look over here) because to openly say, “wouldn’t it be nice if many of the earth’s population wither & die”, might get the brain washed to disagree with them. So they USE scare tactics to acquire pawns in the…
Continued…………… So they USE scare tactics to acquire pawns in the population control game of the elites. Does anybody really think Al Gore is smarter then God who made everything? (Rest my case.) The globalist love him for providing an easy and compelling topic which they can use to control the gullible. Pray God people wake up to the truth only so they acquire some perspective, logic, critical thinking skills and common sense in their lives. Don’t be afraid of the wonders of God’s cyclical climate.
If protecting the environment is equal to opposing abortion, I have a problem with that. On the other hand, it is not “anti-catholic” to want to do what we can to not increase the speed of climate change by humans. To deny that the climate is changing or that the earth is getting warmer is work of ignorance. Yes, it is changing and getting warmer. Does that happen on a cyclical basis? I think so, but so what? We know we are putting filth in the air from car exhaust to coal fired electric plants.. We know have the ability to do something about it. Homes in my area are using zero electricity because of solar panels on the roof. In some areas people are switching to electric water heaters because there is no cost to operate, vs. gas…
Most things in our lives aren’t either / or! We can have and do both. We can use less coal and still travel. We can use less gas and still get around. We have a tendency to want to drive big cars and pickup trucks that use a lot of fuel. We do it because we want to and we can. But should we? We use light bulbs that use a lot of energy, but should we? We can be Catholic and still care for the environment. I think the Bishop didn’t choose his words well. If he meant to say what he did the way he did, he may be in for a scolding.
Nope, “Bob One,” please advise your Zombie-Liberal masters that climate change/global warming is “settled” only because they say that it is. Many, many scientists have voiced concerns with the” climate change as propoganda” approach of the Left. Take a look at the comments of Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT, for example; see them here:https://dailycaller.com/2016/02/16/propoganda-top-mit-climate-scientist-trashes-97-consensus-claim/.
Whether humans contribute to what may, or may not, be a warming planet is open for debate, and true study (not something paid for by Al Gore or George Soros). It is not “work of ignorance” to question this entirely speculative proposition. The Z-L only want to control the economy, so they can push for…
(Part Deux) ” . . . more population control (you know, “control the brown babies” just like Margaret Sanger wanted to do), and for lots and lots of money for Planned Parenthood (Satan’s own).
Do you get any compensation from PP or any population control organization, “Bob One?” There is lots of it being thrown around, including at the UN and its bogus studies of the need to eat less meat. Actually, you find common ground with the execrable Cardinal Kasper, who arrogantly insisted that the African clergy cannot tell the Germans what is and is not moral. Don’t be a fool.
People: Before you continue huffing and puffing, let me say that you are all being played up, pumped, pulled by your chains, and rattled—or rather that you people are doing all of the above to yourselves! It is the writer of this article—not the Church, not the Holy Father—that is saying that climate-change and the death penalty have the same moral weight as abortion. The Holy Father and the universal Church HAVE NOT SAID THIS. In fact Ratzinger in 2004 with his Letter “Worthiness To Receive” clearly taught that the death penalty does not have the same moral weight as abortion. And since I am known here to be an advocate in supporting the Church’s teaching on abolishing the death penalty, my word on this is uber credible!…
People, don’t let the media nor the writer of this article Joshua Smith fool you. Pope Francis himself tells you the proper way to think about the environment in connection with abortion and other life-issues. He said so on paragraph 120 of Laudatio Si: “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”.
These words only suggest, “jon,” that Francis recognizes that you cannot use environmentalism to support abortion rights. In fact, of course (and as Francis likely knows) committeed environmentalists are world population control devotees. They see such things as cause and effect, and necessary. (Again, the Vatican should know this). The Vatican has not said, however, that being pro-life is anything more important than being an environmentalist.
One cannot dance with the Devil, as Francis and McElroy have chosen to do. They mean far more than just insisting that people toss away their garbage into public recepticles. Environmentalism is also likely defined as a religion, with “Gaia” as its god.
Hyperbole, SC. Why don’t you post a picture of Francis and McElroy “dancing with the Devil.” Why don’t you cite a homily of theirs preaching about Gaia. Your incredible trashing of the anointed shepherds of the Church is disgusting.
No, “jon,” the honor goes to men, like Abp. Schneider and Cardinal Burke and a growing list of others that actually preach the Gospel and the doctrines of the Church. Interseting choice of words today from the Pope, warning the press to avoid “scandal mongering” or it could be guilty of “coprophilia” (arousal from excrement), and “coprophasia” (eating excrement). Now, perhaps the Pope was really politely using playground phraseology, or perhaps he is just lost in a bizarre Latin American-based love of scatology.
We do not worship the Pope, and do not obey theological falsehood. Just read that loon and fellow Jesuit Antonio Spadaro said about the possible need to stay in an active adulterous relationship. This is nuts.
SC: The above is what we call “Church fake news.” This is non news, really. You’re working yourself up unnecessarily. The truth of the matter is that the Pope nor the bishops HAVE NOT CHANGED CHURCH DOCTRINE!
Like Pope Benedict XVI said, abortion and euthanasia are greater evils than the death penalty because they target the weak. Global Warming is a hoax to redistribute our wealth to primitive countries that reject Western Civilization and a government of laws.
https://climate.nasa.gov/
No hoax. See the facts.
No, “YFC” it is very likely a hoax, invented to provide — to the gullible — a platform for the venal and uber liberal to highjack the economy and to impose a Satanic order of social planning. I provided links to several articles recently including from an MIT professor who complained about the “propaganda” being issued as science from the global warming crowd.
The Government is the worst offender. Its data is pretty consistenly altered to fit the Zombie-Liberal narrative. Happy to see Trump coming to power. Time for the big eraser.
“LOUDato Nyet’.” Watermelons all, the whole lot: Green on the outside, Red on the inside.
What is the alternative – buying up beachfront lots for resort swimming areas in Greenland?
But Greenland wasn’t always covered with a huge sheet of ice in human memory (Hence the Name).
Myself – I am more concerned about EMP and other Solar Emissions (*they occur regularly, but intensity varies greatly)- powerful enough to fry virtually every electronic device on the planet, and thus cause melt down of an infrastructure with both huge short and long term consequences.
Around the same time that I heard of Bishop McElroy’s evil PUBLIC condemnation of Fr. Perozich, I also heard that the Bishop PUBLICLY praised one of his parishes that flies the Rainbow Flag, “welcomes the LGBT community,” and boasts of an “openly gay” Catholic youth group leader! God help us! And how about the Bishop bringing in the excellent, truly authentically-Catholic group, “Courage,” to help the LGBT’s??
So many of our current Catholic prelates are FRAUDS!! They all ought to resign, leave the Church, and go do something else, that is HONEST, for a living!
Right. So LM, look who is being unchristian now with the type of words you use: frauds, make an honest living for a change. Really, you don’t seem to follow your own admonitions.
jon, I have a right to my opinion– and you have a right to yours.
I am not talking about your rights, LM. I am just gingerly and pointedly bringing to your attention a hypocritical moment: your castigating others unjustly for the thing that you are the one most guilty of is not right.
Not too long ago, jon, Bishop McElroy told the priests of his diocese, that they must welcome divorced and re-married Catholic couples, cohabitating Catholic couples, and gay and lesbian Catholic couples, to receive Holy Communion. He directed his priests to be sure to publicly announce this, and to include it in their parish bulletins. This is NOT the teaching of our Church. This Bishop is an extremely BAD, “un-Catholic” prelate, who refuses to do his job for Christ correctly! Our Church does NOT belong to this extremely BAD Bishop– it belongs to Christ!!
Right. Prove your point. Quote to us a statement from the Bishop saying just what you are claiming: that the divorced and remarried may receive Communion. Cite date and venue.
Linda Maria, perhaps you misunderstood Bishop McElroy. He never said the things you say he said.
Your Fellow Catholic, and jon– you both need to EDUCATE yourselves, on what is happening in our Church! And do you both believe or not believe in Catholic teaching, on reception of Holy Communion? Do you agree with the Bishop, or not? And overall, what do each of you believe?? THAT is what you both need to write about! NOT childishly attacking other Catholic posters! Stand on your own two feet!
Your Fellow Catholic, and jon—- try reading the news story on Bishop McElroy, in the Nov. 28, 2016 edition of LiteSiteNews, on your computer
LM, I’ve read that article. Nowhere does it quote the Bishop saying that the divorced and remarried may received Communion. NOWHERE!
Link? Sorry, I’m not going to guess where I can find something you want me to read.
Your Fellow Catholic, I am older, and not very computer-literate. Here is what one can do:
1. Go to http://www.lifesitenews.com
2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, to the grey area.
3. Go to the far left column, and click on “Archives,” the second item.
3. Type in “Bishop McElroy, Nov. 28, 2016,” in the box, at the top, and click.
4. Click on the very first news story you will see, about him.
There you go!
So, Your Fellow Catholic– what do you think about this article?? It also contains the exact statement of the Bishop! He obviously believes the same way as the Pope, on Holy Communion. What do you think about that?? For me, I do not agree, I believe in the true, orthodox Catholic teachings. But the Pope and Bishop McElroy, do not. Well– you are free to write whatever you think, on this subject!
Well, Linda Maria, I think that you are right about the question of the divorced and remarried, and McElroy’s position. McElroy’s position would not be different from P. Francis, would it?
Here is what P. Francis said this past June (2016): “…the great majority of our sacramental marriages are null.”
Then, at the same time he added:
“I’ve seen a lot of fidelity in these cohabitations, and I am sure that this is a real marriage, they have the grace of a real marriage because of their fidelity…
https://cruxnow.com/cna/2016/06/17/308755/
See? Most were never married anyway—and now in their fake marriages they are finally married.
So, deny them communion?
McElroy and P Francis and the Francisistas are caught in…
…..in their own web of fatal contradictions.
SP: You haven’t really proven LM’s point for her. I see no definite quote from McElroy saying just what LM is claiming—that the divorced and remarried may receive Communion.
Steve Phoenix, excellent! Pope Francis and Bishop McElroy both believe exactly the same way, regarding Holy Communion. Tragic! I am not good with computers, and am wondering if you would know just how to provide the link, for the article on Bishop McElroy, on the Nov. 28, 2016 edition, of LifeSiteNews, on the computer. Perhaps you would know how to do that! That seems to me, to be a quick and easy way, to obtain the information– it includes the exact statement of Bishop McElroy, too, for all to read.
jon needs to READ– and see for himself, that Pope Francis and Bishop McElroy, as well as some leading German bishops– have the same views, on the subject of reception of Holy Communion! Active homosexuals, divorced/re-married with no Catholic annulments, cohabitating couples… They all ignorantly ignore the Catechism, ignore the concept of sin and Confession, and the need to lead a life of virtue, and be in a state of grace, for reception of Holy Communion. They all preach a subjective point of view, that one can decide for him or herself., without the need for correct teaching, and respect for Our Lord. In other words– these so-called “Churchmen”– are actually ANTI-CATHOLIC!! (Heretics!!) What a SHAME!!
It would be a good idea, for jon to learn what Christ actually taught— not merely mindlessly defend whoever sits on the papal throne! Pope St. John Paul II re-affirmed Church teaching on Christian morality, sex, and marriage. Not every Pope has been faithful to Christ! Our current Pope is not faithful to Christ’s teachings– and so, although that is what he believes and preaches– of course, it is not correct!
The news story and statements of Bishop McElroy also appeared in California Catholic Daily’s news stories, of Nov. 29, 2016. It is a good idea, for all Catholics to read, and stay well-informed, regarding their Church– and the interests and plans of the Pope, and of their Bishop! Then they will be able to participate better, as parishioners! Many good Catholics of the San Diego Diocese, will not agree with their Bishop’s beliefs and public statements, regarding Holy Communion, as these beliefs and statements are directly contrary to the teachings of Christ!
Jesus Said (Never)
The earth is my home, keep it cool!!
Jesus predated the industrial revolution.
Glaciers covered North America only 10,000 years ago. The warming that melted them predates the industrial revolution. Use your common sense.
Common sense: https://climate.nasa.gov/
Two most pressing issues. Not the two most sinful issues. Not the two most evil issues. Most pressing. That is not making a moral equivalence.
What you are saying makes no sense, given what many in the Church are teaching. The Seamless Garment does, in fact, impose an equivalency, one that was picked up by the bishops in advising people that they could vote for Obama, for example (which they did). No, the evil that those in the Church have done must be told fully and completely. Then, the evil doers that told these lies must be held to account.
St. Christopher is WRONG! You’re mis-interpreting the late Cardinal Bernardin’s phrase “seamless garment”. He never used to word “equivalency” as you just did when the late Cardinal explained this. Bernardin meant this phrase to mean CONSISTENCY in the Church’s teaching on life. Meaning for instance that if you are opposed to abortion, you must also opposed in our time to the death penalty. BE CONSISTENT in other words.
Read what Cardinal Bernardin himself said about this on March 1984: “A consistent ethic does not say everyone in the Church must do all things, but it does say that as individuals and groups pursue one issue, whether it is opposing abortion or capital punishment, the way we oppose one threat should…
be related to support for a systemic vision of life. It is not necessary or possible for every person to engage in each issue, but it is both possible and necessary for the Church as a whole to cultivate a conscious explicit connection among the several issues.”
You make my point, “jon.” C. Bernardin was entirely about making Catholic teaching one big stew of equivalency. Why, you ask? For several reasons, including to protect homosexual sexual rights and potential marriage, by downplaying the absolute nature of sin. St. John Paul II was overtly against the enormous moral disruption in the Church caused by C. Bernardin, going out of his way to appoint “non-Bernardin” clerics to key Church positions, such as in NYC.
Francis, by contrast, loves this foolish man and his theological nonsense. Just look at how Francis has resurrected the Zombie-Liberal horde. Must warn the world against coprophilia and coprophagia you know (which pretty much sums up what C. Bernardin taught).
SC, a person cannot prove his point by guessing at the intention/motivation of another. Why not? Because you need to prove another’s motivation and intention, and one does that only with a jury. and we don’t have a jury here. This is what you have just done concerning the late Cardinal: read your own post above. Therefore, yours is flawed reasoning. Rather, to prove one’s point one looks at statements and actions. This is what I have just done. The late Cardinal used the word “consistency” to explain “seamless garment.” He NEVER USED THE WORD “EQUIVALENCY”. So, SC, sorry to say, but you have not proven your point.
Climate changes every day. To think mankind can stop it from doing so is akin to King Canute’s ordering the incoming tide waters to stop so as not to wet his feet [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_waves].
Actually what is meant by ‘Laudato Si’ is to stop anthropogenic, or man-caused, global warming – – the warming caused principally by Carbon Dioxide gas released from burning fossil fuels: wood, coal, oil and methane.
Unfortunately Catholic leaders including Pope Francis have been duped into believing that 97% of climate scientists believe that fossil fuel consumption by humanity is the root cause of global warming. My letter below to Pope Francis below explains this error.
“Your Holiness,
After reading…
According to Catholic Online, new clergy training guidelines will require all new priests to study and actually “preach” on climate-change/global-warming/global-cooling/what-do-we-call-‘it’-today:
https://www.catholic.org/news/green/story.php?id=72433
A secular-atheist message that has nothing to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A False Church erected beside/within a True Church.