When you think of sin, what kinds of things come to mind?
Murder? Greed? Using a plastic straw?
Pope Francis has made a proposal: Add “ecological sin” to the list of wrongdoings in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
At the 20th World Congress of the International Association of Penal Law in Rome, the Bishop of Rome explained that Christians have a responsibility to save the earth.
As reported by LifeSiteNews, he believes the addition is a must:
“We have to introduce – we are thinking about it – to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the sin against ecology, the ‘ecological sin’ against our common home, because a duty is at stake.”
Catholic author Dr. Peter Kwasniewski notes there’s no such thing as a sin against the planet; therefore, any inclusion of ecological menace would have to be worded so as to reference a slight against God:
“All sins are ultimately against God or those who are in God’s image. As all theologians have explained prior to the post-conciliar decline of theology, when we abuse the natural world or animals or plants, we are sinning against God their creator, who gave them to us to use for the right purposes and in accordance with their nature and ours.”
Sins also hurt people:
“The only ‘targets’ of sin are persons, since they are either divine persons who deserve our total obedience, or angelic or human persons who deserve our reverence as images of God.”
Peter seems to be on the Pope’s side in terms of man’s responsibility to the third rock from the sun (great TV show, by the way):
“Man is obliged in justice to respect God’s gift and the order He has established; man must also respect the common destination of material goods, i.e., that God has made the earth for the benefit of all, not for the selfish benefit of a few.
“Seen in this light, one can speak of sins that involve the abuse of ‘our common home,’ but one must be precise about what sin is, against whom it is aimed, and whose rights and duties are actually involved.”
Particularly those of you who are religious — and even more so, of course, those of you who are Catholic — what do you think of Pope Francis’s proposal?
Perhaps it could be said of other sins as well, but isn’t the notion of ecological sin too vague? What would constitute such? Drying your hands with a paper towel? Using Charmin instead of a corn cob? Voting Republican?
Or how about changing your drawers, you good-smellin’ a*****e?–
“A Revolutionary Fashion Brand Wants You to Save the Planet by Not Changing Your Underwear for Weeks ”
One group surely not opposed to the idea: the Church of Sweden, which — last December — declared Jesus Himself had appointed teen Greta Thunberg as his successor (here).
Is she destined for sainthood?
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>"People are dying … And all you can talk about is the money and fairytales of eternal economic growth."<br><br>Climate activist Greta Thunberg condemned world leaders in her UN speech today. <a href=”https://t.co/9HZpotSQSA”>pic.twitter.com/9HZpotSQSA</a></p>— News Breakfast (@BreakfastNews) <a href=”https://twitter.com/BreakfastNews/status/1176239816704323584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>September 23, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
You can find the 904-page Catechism here.
Read more at RedState
A great many Catholics are positively aghast at this pope – and rightly so. It is almost as if a Marxist had taken over the Church.
Guys, as a catholic militant myself, I safely inform you that this man called Bergoglio [francis] is an ecclesiastical freemason, the fulfillment of “The Permanent Instructions of the Alta Venditta” and “The Jewish Peril 1936”. Everything he ha been doing is to cunningly and gradually destroy everything t hat is sacred and holy. If you want to understand Benedict XVI situation then read 2 Tess 2:7.! Very simple, right? Benedict XVI is the true catholic Vicar of Christ because since the times of Abraham thjat God only entrusts one man at a time to be the mediator between Him and His children…therefore there can only be one pope. Plus, there are a few prophecies [Gods revelations] that point bergoglio to be a false impostor and B16 to be the true pope. And of course, as many prophecies had warned, most catholics are being deceived by this destroyer. As for ‘climate change’, the weather has been manipulated since the 50’s with technologies such as Haarp and Chemtrails – “1976 UN Weather Weapons Treaty” & “1992 Hindelberg Appeal” & “Leipzig Declaration” & “Oregon Petition”.
So now do we have to atone for Sins against the Planet? what kind of pagan new age poppycock is this anyway?
I have often said that someone has gotten to the Pope. Perhaps one of those things is senility.
For the head of a church to rant and rave about climate change is one thing. To make the radical environmental movement part of church doctrine is quite another. Imagine if in the 1600’s the church had declared believing or advocating that the planets rotate around the sun was incorporated into the church doctrine as a sin. That would severely compromise the value of the doctrine. It is the same with importing the climate change dogma. It is only a matter of time before it is universally recognized as a fraud. If it part of the church doctrine, what does that say about the church? Not defining the exact nature of the ecological sin would give them some room to recover, but everyone would know it was originally for climate change.
One of the major goals of the climate change movement is to impose tight control over everyone’s lives by the self appointed elite. Having a large church declare deviating from the desired behavior is a sin is probably seen as a means of enforcement. There is not a lot of reality to that. My wife was raised in a family where all of the kids went to private catholic school from kindergarten through the end of high school. There are three nuns in the extended family. Yet, members of the family pretty much decide for themselves how to live their lives and don’t let the church tell them what to do. If the church goes along with the Popes proposal, they will eventually have a large cost in order to implement a small amount of control.
this pope isn’t senile, his problem is Apostasy, he appears to genuinely not be a follower of Jesus and thus continues to make declarations that are opposite to those who hold true faith in the Creator God
The muslim adorafying idiot called
THE DOPE
Wants to amend the word of G-D
amend the word of the Christ ?
Maybe
THE DOPE
Would like proclaim himself to be
G-D INCARNATE !
Perhaps pappy franny is a democrat
because such arrogance is seen in the USA only
by adherents and members of the
SMELLOCRATIC PARTY
The Jesuit idiot Pope Francis needs to be the first Pope in history to be removed, forcibly if need be. The damned Jesuits vehemently opposed the reformation, in my opinion these Luddite activists should be excluded for papal consideration. Lunatics.
Greta and Francis two more false idols why in the world would the Vatican stick up for this phonie Pope?