# 19 OF 45 - THIS UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"

# 19 OF 45 -THIS UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - THURS. JUNE 20/19

 

George Neumauyr - "The Political Pope" Center Street, 2017

Chapter 5 - Unholy Alliance  106- 116

 

    "He (Pope Francis) called for the phasing out of fossil fuels.... He wrote, "The Christian tradition has never recognized the right to private property as absolute or inviolable, and has stressed the social purpose of all forms of private property. Saint John Paul II forcefully reaffirmed this teaching, stating that God gave the earth to the whole human race for sustenance of all its members, without excluding or favoring anyone.

 

    In fact, Pope John Paul II had defended the free market, saying that Christ had not condemned a simple possession of material goods. Rather, his most severe words are directed against those who use their riches in an egoistic manner, without preoccupying with their neighbors who lack the indispensable."

    No such balance appeared in Laudato Si'. Instead, perfectly reasonable human activity, such as turning on air-conditioning, is cast as overconsumption: ...  Many found this a curious example of over consumption, given that the lives of millions of people have been saved or improved by air-conditioning... Socialists found his searing critique of Western capitalism exhilarating....

 

    No serious economist today give any credence to such warmed over Marxist claim. Pope Francis asserts that a free market, because it allows for income inequalities,  is not only a threat to the environment but also a cause of war- a link that even the left-leaning Economist finds "ultra-radical."...

    Pope Francis has made it clear that he agrees with Cardinal Peter Turkeson's support for world government.... In August 2016, the Vatican announced that Turkeson would head up a new Vatican department dedicated to promoting environmentalism an other politically liberal projects described described as "Integral Human Development."...

 

    In the Philippines, thousands of Catholics, led by their bishops, marched against fossil fuels. The 2016 event was organized by Greenpeace and other radical groups....The Vatican is now looking at making classes in "ecology" a requirement for all seminarians....  In September 2016, Pope Francis stunned Catholics by suggesting that environmentalism be added to the spiritual and corporal works of mercy.... After Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency, Cardinal Joseph Tobin called on U.S. bishops to increase their climate change activism. "given the possibility that the administration isn't going to be very interested in the question that Pope Francis is interested in."

 

DON'T BREED "LIKE RABBITS"

    Environmentalists often chafed under the rhetoric of Pope John Paul II who described the left's "culture of death," and Pope Benedict XVI who described its politics as a "dictatorship of relativism."... In early 2015, for example, Francis appalled conservatives Catholics with large families, and delighted environmentalists who called for small families, when he told the press that Catholics shouldn't be like rabbits....

The British Catholic organization "Voice of the Family"...noted at the time when "contraception and environmentalism so often go hand-in-hand" Pope Francis declined to reaffirm "Church teaching on the primacy of procreation.".... He also belittles the Church for its past teaching on marriage: " we often present marriage in such a way that its unitive meaning, its call to grow in love and its ideal of mutual assistance are overshadowed by an almost exclusive insistence on the duty of procreation."....

 

THE DARWINIST POPE

The first radical green pope is also impressing the environmental left with his support for Darwinism. Leading Darwinists have called mainstream evolutionary theory - which holds that species form as a result of random mutations and natural selection - the "greatest engine of atheism ever invented." in sofar it provides a creation story without a creator. Understanding the atheistic implications of the theory, the Church has long viewed Darwinism with suspicion. But Pope Francis doesn't. In the contemporary class between Darwinism and "intelligent design," Pope Francis sides with the Darwinists...."

George H. Kubeck