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Okay, not exactly. The article title reads ‘Climate change message must be preached at parish levels’, so we’re only talking semantics here. A distinction without a difference.
The article’s from the – you guessed it! – the National Schistmatic Reporter, and boy does it contain some howlers.
And hey – if you punch your monitor, don’t send me the bill. Send it to the NSR.
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In a telephone interview Jan. 22, Mayer made a strong plea for faith communities to begin building a major movement that elevates climate change above its current “footnote” status and places it squarely in the center of both spiritual and public concerns. The pulpit could be an effective beginning point, he said.
Within the Catholic church, climate change deserves “the same emphasis as abortion and birth control,” he said. “But when I talk to young people, they tell me those topics are all they hear about in sermons, and they’re bored.”
“Climate change,” Mayer said, “is the moral issue of our time.”
Angry yet? Who are these “young people”, who say that they hear about abortion and contraception in sermons all the time? Give me a break! I don’t know about you, but in the church where I attend, I’ve never heard a homily about abortion – even on Respect Life Sunday – or contraception. That’s been the case for the past five or six years.
And even if he’s talking about homilies concerning the HHS mandate and its deleterious effect upon the Church, I still doubt that’s all they hear. I’m sure they still hear the homilies about recycling and how Jesus’ miracles weren’t really miracles.
And by the way, 55,000,000+ aborted babies – the result of 40 years of legalized abortion in this country – might beg to differ that climate change is the moral issue of our time. Let me add that if we as a Church and as Catholics are incapable of stopping the heinous evil of abortion, then we sure as hell are going to be incapable of stopping climate change. Let’s see…willful destruction of an unborn child vs. a global ecosystem that can squash us like a bug any moment it wants to…hmmm…gosh, that’s not a toughie at all. Moral issue of our time, my big fat Catholic attitude.
Ok, here’s a little more…
Besides pushing the president, “we have to connect climate change to people’s self-interest — the green jobs that will be created by sustainable energy projects,” he continued.
But issues of self-interest go much further than jobs — they touch people’s hearts and spirits, he said. Think about the amount of stress, grief, worry, fear and depression that will surface when individuals begin experiencing the effects of climate change in their personal lives. Who will be there to minister to them, to comfort them? Mayer wonders.
You see what I endure for you, my faithful readers? I actually read these brain-squeezing articles so you don’t have to. I risk losing IQ points doing this stuff. It’s a nasty job, but I do it out of love for each and every one of you. I do this so you won’t have to undergo stress, grief, worry, fear and depression you’d experience from reading all this nonsense.
A longtime friend and student of the late environmentalist Fr. Thomas Berry, Mayer said he experienced an epiphany in 2003.
“I woke up in the middle of the night and realized, ‘My God, global warming is the biggest issue facing humanity today,’ ” he said.
Yeah, and in those ten years, how many millions of babies were aborted, worldwide? We’re awash in the blood of the innocent, and he’s getting night terrors about junk science.
Now here’s the clincher, waaaaaaay down at the bottom.
The Rev. Richard Cizik, an evangelical Christian clergyman who heads the progressive New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, was interviewed on a local Fox affiliate last week on the pray-in. He told the interviewer he believes more churchgoers will accept the truth of climate change if their pastors would preach about it from the pulpit. (emphasis mine)
Which only goes to show – when priests preach truth from the pulpits…and I mean the truths of the Catholic faith…when they preach them as being important and necessary for a good and holy life, and for our salvation, their congregation believes them. By their own admission, these progressives profess that people will believe if it comes from a priest.
Sadly, due to lack of faith in many of the truths of the Catholic Church, they resort to junk science or any other liberal progressive worn-out idea, and call it preaching, when really all it is, is plain nonsense.
I’m hoping I can sleep tonite. Maybe I’ll turn down the thermostat from 72 to 68 – it gets so hot under my Ralph Lauren down comfortor and alpaca blanket over my flannel sheets.
So get this – a few years ago, at our parish, there was this liberal rag written by non-habit-wearing sisters that was tucked inside our bulletin about every month or so. One time we noticed it preaching the evils of carbon emissions and the SIN of not taking action to save our planet and stop global warming.
When we brought it up to our pastor, who is from Spain, he promptly told us he’d no longer subscribe to the publication, and save the parish some money. He immediately recognized the propaganda for what it was and wasn’t going to have it infiltrate his flock. He and his brother priests (all from the same Spanish order) never fail to preach about the evils of abortion and the dignity of the human person. We know how blessed we are to experience this zeal for orthodoxy on the parts of so many young, devoted priests.
If by the same attention as abortion & birth control gets in the average parish, then what is he grumbling about? Most parishes give the other 2 zero attention.
Fortunately, I go to Mass at parish where both priests are solid & speak out against abortion & other sins regularly. Yes, they even push confession. In fact the whole diocese of Rockford is asking every parish to have an extra hour of confession 1 evening during the weekend during Lent.
Meanwhile we see another example of why the NonCatholic Reporter is exactly what Bishop Finn said it was, NOT Catholic.
Tell you what, I’ll make him a deal–for every homily he preaches on the evilness of abortion and contraception (where he makes it unambiguously clear that they are evil), I’ll let him do a homily on care for the environment. Heck, I’ll throw in a bonus–two environmental homilies for every one homily on the evils of homosexual acts and same-sex “marriage”. It’s win-win!
Our mission parish, deep in the Bible Belt, is served by a secular priest around 70 years old. He’s a delightfully faithful old fellow, likes doing the EF, and regularly mentions abortion in homilies, always explaining that it’s evil. It is to be hoped that he’ll also explain about the other pelvic issues that so engross the Left.
My eyes are rolling around in my head so fast I may take off like a helicopter. UGH!
Does anyone remember back in the mid-1970s that the environmentalists were running round with their hair on fire screaming about global cooling! Oh there is a new ice age coming; there will be massive crop failures; massive death from freezing etc. They went on to urge the government to cover the poles with black ash to promote melting.
Ohhhhh this gives me a headache.
How can any right thinking person believe that global warming or saving the trees, saving the whales, PETA etc, can possible rise to the moral equivalence of murder…..really……
I thought they wanted the Church to stay out of science?
If you want green homilies– preach Natural Family Planning. It is 100% natural and as effectives as chemicals, if not more.
If you want a homily on the evils of contraception go to http://romancatholichomilies.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-death-of-western-civilization.html
Haven’t they seen the leaked report from the UN indicating that it’s the Sun that’s actually the problem? Oops.
You might want to google who this Paul Mayer actually is. He is NOT a priest in good standing. Just check his blog where it shows he married a nun and raised two kids. This guy offers to do weddings on the beach of your choice in the tri-state area. Just another burned out liberal who doesn’t get it. http://paulmayer.blogspot.com/
I felt badly for you, for about twelve seconds. Then I shrugged and said this is the cross you chose to baer, you’re doing a good job. On some level, in my ADHD stricken brain, it makes sense to think that if it sucks for you, that makes you a really good Catholic.
I’m new to blogging and have only tepidly set my pinky toe into discussing my faith on a larger scale. The idea of sorting through the inherently wrong and backwards world of liberal Cathfauxlicism (Cath – fall – iss -cism) is overwhelming to me. Instead I choose easy things to talk about like politics, budgets, and social decay. Then my friends read it and tell me that I’m smarter than this and should really finish out each blog with a solid “Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity” statement to explain in no uncertain terms what I meant. Maybe after a while reading this and the other blogs I’ve found through yours, I’ll consider it. Keep up the good work.