WHAT is “Pope” Francis’s encyclical on global warming, Laudato Si, the public relations mega-sensation released today, other than a nod to the Conciliar Church of Vatican II’s leftist allies, yet another signal that Jorge Bergoglio is one of them. In a nutshell, that’s all it is: a public profession of faith in a religion that is not Catholic. The global warming movement, to be distinguished from the scientific consensus that the planet has indeed warmed in recent years, is similar to medieval and Renaissance alchemy, superstitions that embrace diabolical magic. The recommended cures for global warming are magic spells inspired by human pride and scientific blindness.
But then Francis will do anything to avoid the real concerns of a pope, which involve spiritual, not physical, pollution. The environment will always be a mess, and the cause is human sin. There are also serious environmental problems unique to our time. But spiritual degradation — the atheistic, modern nation that refuses to recognize a supernatural order — is connected to this physical degradation.
From Novus Ordo Watch:
The institution that is widely but falsely believed to be the Catholic Church — the Masonic Novus Ordo Sect that has been occupying the Vatican since 1958 — has become a laughing stock to the world. At this point we may as well expect encyclicals or sermons on jaywalking while Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel is replaced by a giant recycling symbol. Entirely gone is the idea that the purpose of Christ’s coming and the mission of the Catholic Church are the salvation of souls from sin and eternal condemnation — the only time these concepts are still used is to further some humanitarian cause, as Francis did in his homily for Caritas, and as we have pointed out in our scathing critique of Francis’ Gospel of Man.
Years from now if it is proved that Jorge Bergoglio was a Marxist infiltrator planted in the Catholic Church by its enemies, will you be ashamed, dear reader? Will you be ashamed that you did not stand up and say, “No! This man is not the pope?” For that is how dramatic is his departure, and the departure of his Vatican II predecessors, from the institution he supposedly leads, an institution which is not a club, but a faith with specific, clearly defined beliefs, from which one cannot depart and still remain a member.
By the way, for all his purported concern for the poor, climate change measures typically are harder on the poor. Bjorn Lomberg writes in USA Today: Read More »