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The Green Pope And The Catholic Rebellion

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Pope Francis is a Technocrat and is pushing for Technocracy as hard as people like George Soros and Al Gore. You don't have to be Catholic to appreciate the growing rebellion against Pope Francis for his complete departure from orthodox Catholicism. As this article concludes, the Pope is seen as 'insane' and doing things that have nothing whatsoever to do with traditional, historic Catholicism. ? TN Editor

More than three years into this bizarre pontificate, one thing has become clear to the informed objective observer: "Father Bergoglio," as he is wont to call himself when undermining Catholic doctrine by telephone, is abusing the papal office like no other Pope before him in an attempt to pass off his own ideas as binding on the Church.

On and on he goes, telling us whatever he thinks as if he actually expects any believing Catholic to accept his notions as authentic Church teaching, including these:

the admission to Holy Communion of people living in adultery in "certain cases";

the embrace of environmentalism, "global warming" hysteria and the United Nations "sustained development goals";

the absurd whitewash of Islam, the demand for unrestricted Muslim immigration and the outrageous claim of a moral equivalence between Islamic terrorists and Catholic "fundamentalists";

the approval of contraception to prevent transmission of the Zika virus;

the condemnation of women who have multiple Caesarian sections as "irresponsible" mothers who tempt God and breed "like rabbits";

the claim that anyone who is baptized belongs to the same Church as Catholics;

the reduction of the defined dogma of transubstantiation to an "interpretation" on the same level as the Lutheran heresy;

the condemnation of the death penalty as per se immoral;

the depiction of Mary as embittered over being "tricked" by God regarding her Son's kingship;

the depiction of Jesus as a prevaricator who only pretends to be angry with His disciples and a reckless youth who had to apologize to Mary and Joseph for his "little escapade" in the Synagogue while they were looking for him;

and so on and so forth—endlessly, day in and day out.

And now the latest ridiculous Novelty of the Week. Francis has decided there should be eight works of corporal mercy and eight works of spiritual mercy instead of the traditional seven. The new "eighth work of mercy," both corporal and spiritual, would be "care for our common home," meaning the environment. As Francis declared in his "Message for the Celebration of the World Day of Care for Creation," quoting himself as the sole authority (as he so often does):

The Christian life involves the practice of the traditional seven corporal and seven spiritual works of mercy. "We usually think of the works of mercy individually and in relation to a specific initiative: hospitals for the sick, soup kitchens for the hungry, shelters for the homeless, schools for those to be educated, the confessional and spiritual direction for those needing counsel and forgiveness… But if we look at the works of mercy as a whole, we see that the object of mercy is human life itself and everything it embraces."

Obviously "human life itself and everything it embraces" includes care for our common home. So let me propose a complement to the two traditional sets of seven: may the works of mercy also include care for our common home.

As a spiritual work of mercy, care for our common home calls for a "grateful contemplation of God's world" (Laudato Si', 214) which "allows us to discover in each thing a teaching which God wishes to hand on to us" (ibid., 85). As a corporal work of mercy, care for our common home requires "simple daily gestures which break with the logic of violence, exploitation and selfishness" and "makes itself felt in every action that seeks to build a better world" (ibid., 230-31).

To whom are we showing spiritual mercy when we engage in "grateful contemplation of God's world"? No one, obviously. To characterize contemplating the created world of physical entities as a work of spiritual mercy is patent nonsense. The proposed new eighth work of corporal mercy is just as nonsensical: it is directed to no one in particular and fails to prescribe any particular corporal work.

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