The Conclave
chose the former Argentinian, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and “vaulted him from
relative obscurity into the papacy. To
many observers – some delighted, other discomfited – the new pope already had
changed seemingly everything, seemingly overnight.” http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/vatican/draper-text
One of the
images of archbishop Bergoglio, an Argentinian born of Italian parents, was
showing the archbishop kneeling on stage in front of “men of lesser status.”
The picture was published by Cabildo,
a conservative Catholic journal, with the caption “apostata.”
Self-described
as a “callejero,” the Jesuit priest frequently
visited the ghetto and rode the subway, a “wanderer”
in search of lost souls. He was made bishop in 1992 and cardinal in 2001.
Massimo
Franco, a Roman author, explained his meteoric rise. “His election arose from a
trauma – from the sudden (and for nearly six centuries, unprecedented)
resignation of the sitting pope, Benedict XVI, and from the mounting sentiment
among more progressive cardinals that the hoary and Eurocentric mind-set of the
Holy See was rotting the Catholic Church from within.”
The
beautiful Catholic Churches in Europe are rather empty of parishioners on most days;
they are fabulous museums where tourists admire the icons, the tombs of the
famous statesmen and former popes, statues, and reliquaries with a sense of
reverence, admiration, appreciation, and awe. Occasionally some tourists do
pray.
Robert
Draper reported that Pope Francis does not wear a bulletproof vest because,
Francis told his friend, Norberto Saracco, “The Lord has put me here. He’ll
have to look out for me.”
Highly
independent, Pope Francis accompanied a friend to the elevator at the end of a
visit so that, he joked, … I can be sure you don’t take anything with you.”
Regarding his independent spirit, Robert Draper quoted the Vatican spokesman,
“In a sense, this is positive, because in the past there were criticisms that
someone had too much power over the pope. They cannot say this is the case
now.”
Changes in
the Vatican happen with any new pope. But Ramiro de la Serna, Franciscan priest
from Buenos Aires said, “I believe we haven’t yet seen the real changes. And I
also believe we haven’t seen the real resistance yet either.”
Uncomfortable
with the Swiss Guards following him everywhere for his own safety, Draper
writes that the pope has eventually “resigned to their near-constant presence.”
Bemoaning the fact that he cannot walk the streets of Rome like he used to walk
in the streets of Buenos Aires, he feels “penned in.”
Pope Francis
admits that he never follows his impulses because “the first answer that comes
to me is usually wrong,” he said.
People have
criticized the pope for embracing an imam, Omar Abboud, after praying with him
and the rabbi Skorka at the Western Wall.
Graciously,
Pope Francis gives sage advice to engaged couples. “The perfect family doesn’t
exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let’s not talk
about the perfect mother-in-law! It’s just us sinners.” In response to a
question about gay priests, Draper reported that the pope had said, “Who am I to
judge?”
The pope
seems to be shaking Vatican and revolutionize the world. Draper believes that
“This would appear to be the pope’s mission: to ignite a revolution inside the
Vatican and beyond its walls, without overturning a host of long-held
precepts.” He quotes la Serna, the pope’s Argentinian friend, “He won’t change
doctrine. What he will do is return the church to its true doctrine – the one
it has forgotten, the one that puts man back in the center. By putting the
suffering of man, and his relationship with God, back in the center, these
harsh attitudes toward homosexuality, divorce, and other things will start to
change.”
His climate
change encyclical and the invitation to address the U.S. Congress in the fall are
evidence that he is hugely successful. He has inserted himself into the global
warming debacle now turned into a veritable industry of climate change, a
wealth redistribution scheme to combat poverty around the globe, and an attempt
to control every facet of our lives through environmentalism, led by the United
Nations with its many organizations staffed by third world bureaucrats and
developed world socialists/Marxists.
In late July
2015, sixty environmentally-friendly mayors from cities like Boston, Boulder,
New York City, San Francisco, Oslo, Stockholm, New Orleans, Birmingham (Alabama),
Vancouver, Libreville (Gabon), Siquirres (Costa Rica), and Kochi (India) met
for a two-day conference in Vatican City to pledge to the pope to reduce global
warming and to help the urban poor deal with the onslaught of global warming
which seems to affect them disproportionately while the rest of “the working
class” are experiencing cooler temperatures due to seasonal changes.
These mayors
belong to the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance and have committed themselves to
reducing CO2 emissions by “at least 80 percent by 2050.” Gov. Jerry Brown of
California is the leader, having “enacted the toughest greenhouse gas emission
standards in North America.”
At the
conclusion of the two-day conference, mayors were also asked to sign a
declaration against slavery and human trafficking.
Mayor Gregor
Robertson of Vancouver signed the declaration that states “human-induced climate change is a
scientific reality and its effective control is a moral imperative for
humanity.” So the “climatism” rhetoric has changed now from “consensus science
is settled” to “human imperative.”
Mayor William
Bell of Birmingham, Alabama, discussed segregation as he experienced it, a “close-cousin
to slavery,” he said. He was elated to follow the pope’s call to end all forms of
modern-day slavery.
Oslo’s mayor
Stian Berger Rosland was cheered by his colleagues when he announced that he
was “the first Catholic mayor of Oslo since the Reformation.”
Monica Fein
of Argentina’s Mercociudades (Network of cities in Latin America) stated her
goal, “We want sustainable development, without excluding the extremely poor”
and “We fundamentally want to leave our children and future generations with a
planet that isn’t contaminated.”
Madrid’s
leftist mayor, Manuela Carmena, stated that sexual slavery occurs in the world
because “society has not been educated enough about sexuality” and prostitution
exists. The mayors heard the testimony of two Mexican women who were victims of
modern-day slavery.
San Francisco
mayor, Edwin Lee, pledged to “completely phase out the use of petroleum diesel”
in its city’s vehicle fleet and replace them with renewable diesel by the end
of 2015.
The New
Orleans mayor, Mitch Landrieu, warned about environmental degradation, citing
the case of New Orleans and its Hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005, including
the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. His city supplies one-quarter of
all the seafood produced in the U.S. and more oil and gas to the U.S. than
Saudi Arabia. “But that economic benefit comes at a cost,” he said.
Mayor
Chammany of Kochi talked about the Indian caste system, “one of the worst forms
of slavery known to man.”
Mayor of
Stockholm stated that the 2015 Paris conference must “exclude fossil fuels as
an option and just focus on long-term sustainable energy sources.” Mayor Karin
Wanngaard proudly announced that 75 percent of her city’s public transportation
runs on renewable energy. Her goal is to make Stockholm fossil-fuel free by
2040.
The mayor of
New York City, Bill de Blasio, promised to reduce New York City’s emissions 40
percent by 2030.
Jerry Brown,
the governor of California had very harsh words for climate skeptics – they are
“seeking to falsify the scientific record” in the process of trying to “bamboozle”
the public with their propaganda, putting “troglodytes” in office rather than
environmentally-responsible leaders. These bamboozlers try to convince
scientists, politicians, and the public that global warming is a fraud. The
climate change skeptics are “deniers of the obvious science.” I am not sure what
the definition of “obvious science” is, it must be a close cousin to consensus
science, certainly not based on fact. http://cruxnow.com/life/2015/07/21/updates-on-the-mayors-conference-at-the-vatican/
Robertson
said that “Vancouver is among a group of cities focused on eliminating fossil
fuels and shifting towards 100 percent renewable energy.” That will be
interesting to watch. http://vancouverobserver.com/news/vancouver-mayor-energized-vatican-climate-conference
The Vatican tried
to connect climate change with human trafficking by claiming that global
warming is responsible for creating “environmental refugees” who flee their
homes because of drought or other climate-caused natural disasters. This begs
the question, was climate change responsible for slavery in Egypt, in the Roman
Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East, Africa, or modern slaves in
Islamic cultures?
The Paris
climate negotiations in December (Who would have thought that humans could
modify climate and negotiate it?) will have a final declaration that states,
among other things, that “human-induced climate change is a scientific reality
and its effective control is a moral imperative for humanity.”
The document
demands not just transition to low-carbon and renewable energy, but making “urgent
investments” in sustainable development, rich countries footing the investment
bill for the poor countries and divesting away from the military. Who needs an
army, a navy, or an air force when the world is so peaceful and
non-threatening?
As my good
friend Chriss R. pointed out, this was an extraordinary event for Marxist politicians
from around the globe to meet at the Vatican with the pope to discuss something
that has nothing to do with religion or the salvation of souls. Furthermore,
who paid for the very expensive trip of each mayor who flew to Rome on 60
different jets spewing carbon into the atmosphere?
If it was
the taxpayers, how does that sit with atheists and spiritualists for their
politicians to chat up a religious leader? Don’t they usually reject the church
and vociferously demand separation of church and state? If it was the Catholic
Church that paid for the trip of all these socialists, why did the church not use
the money to help the starving poor instead?
Pope Francis
is quoted by National Geographic as having said, “It’s very entertaining to be Pope.”
Is it helpful to use a powerful moral authority to influence something that is
not real, has no basis in real science or fact, and it will definitely cause
more poverty around the globe?
The deep de-carbonization
meeting in Paris, The 2015 United Nations Climate Change
Conference (COP21) is likely to draw at least 10,000 government and UN
representatives, all arriving on carbon-spewing jets. But the rules of the new climatism science are just for ordinary
people, not for those who control the world. http://cop21.gouv.fr/en
Deep decarbonizing
is a must for the masses. As Dr. Klaus Kaiser stated, “How else can you reduce
the world population from 7 to 8 billion to fewer than one billion which Professor
HJ Schellnhuber opines as necessary? He is the director of the Potsdam Institut
fuer Klimafolgenforschung,” a German government-sponsored entity for “climate
impact research.” The Pontiff named “Schellnhuber to the 400-year old
institution of the Pontifical Academy of
Sciences (PAS).” Schellnhuber is the co-author of the encyclical on climate
change, Laudato Si. http://canadafreepress.com/article/74512
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