Monday, April 26, 2021

Francis Advocates ‘Ecological Spirituality’ on Pagan Pachamama Day

Pushes UN's climate agenda under guise of 'Laudato Sí'

by Martin Barillas • ChurchMilitant.com • April 26, 2021

In a video message celebrating Earth Day, Pope Francis said on Thursday the COVID pandemic "has shown what happens when the world stops, pauses, if but for a few months. And the impact this has on nature and climate change, with a sadly positive force, no? In other words, it hurts."

U.N. Director-General Antonio Guterres with Bergoglio

Earth Day was established by the United Nations (U.N.) in 1970 and is celebrated every April 22 to emphasize the relationship of human beings to the natural world. It's used to promote the environmentalist movement worldwide. The day has thus become one of the most celebrated by globalists.

According to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, "Let's remind more than ever in this International Mother Earth Day that we need a shift to a more sustainable economy that works for both people and the planet. Let's promote harmony with nature and the Earth. Join the global movement to restore our world!"

Francis: Apocalyptic Rhetoric

The pope exhorted, "For some time now, we have been becoming more aware that nature deserves to be protected, even if only because human interaction with God's biodiversity must take care with utmost care and respect."

As for the world's response to COVID-19, he posited, "It affects us all, albeit in multiple, diverse and unequivocal forms," while the "world's nature needs our lives on this planet, while it teaches us even more about what we need to do to create a just, equitable, environmentally safe planet."

Echoing environmentalist themes used by politicians and environmentalists, the pontiff claimed that the "COVID pandemic taught us this interdependence, this sharing of the planet."

Verging on apocalyptic language, he suggested that COVID and climate change show that humanity is running out of time. "We have the means, it is time to act, we are at the limit," he warned.

He said humanity may still have time to act on environmentalist goals, saying, "We will be more resilient when we work together instead of alone."

He also affirmed in such a "crisis," humanity will "come out better or worse" and warned, "If we do not come out better, we are on a path of self-destruction."

The pope said the summit was 'a happy occasion' that is pushing the world toward fulfilling the goals of the Paris Agreement.Gab Tweet

Francis noted, "When the destruction of nature is unleashed, it is difficult to halt."

Message to World Leaders

In a separate message to the Leaders Summit on Climate, hosted virtually Thursday by pro-abortion Joe Biden with some 40 national leaders, the pope encouraged them to "take charge of the care of nature, of this gift that we have received and that we have to heal, guard and carry forward." He further urged them to ensure that "the environment is cleaner, purer, and preserved," and to "take care of nature so that it takes care of us."

Greeting world leaders, including Chinese president Xi Jinping, the pope said the summit was "a happy occasion" that is pushing the world toward fulfilling the goals of the Paris Agreement at the next U.N. climate conference, which is slated for Glasgow, Scotland, in November.

During his administration, President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris accord, citing its costs to American taxpayers and industry. Biden revived U.S. participation in the accord, claiming to recapture U.S. leadership in the environmentalist cause. He also canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline project, resulting in thousands of lost jobs.

At the virtual summit, Biden told fellow leaders, "This is the decade we must make decisions that will avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis."

Biden revealed that he seeks to cut U.S. carbon emissions by 50%–52% from 2005 levels. In addition, he also pledged to create an international climate finance scheme to subsidize efforts by developing countries to shift away from carbon emissions. As for the United States, Biden pledged a carbon-free electrical grid by 2035.

The biggest emitters of carbon, ranked in order, are China, United States, India, Russia and Japan.

Earlier this year, Biden established the National Climate Task Force that, according to the White House, brings together bureaucrats from across 21 federal agencies and departments to enable a "Government-wide approach to combat the climate crisis."

Biden also established the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, which will be led by the first-ever national climate advisor and deputy national climate advisor.

According to National Catholic Reporter, Jose Aguto of the Catholic Climate Covenant asserts that Biden's global environmentalist summit and his American Jobs Plan are "positive steps our nation can take to uplift the dignity of all people and address climate change." Catholic Climate Covenant was founded by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in union with Catholic Charities and various religious congregations.

USCCB Supportive

In February, Abp. Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, praised Biden's environmentalist executive orders. Coakley chairs the USCCB committee on domestic justice.

"In his encyclical Laudato Sí, Pope Francis presented Christians and all peoples with an integral ecology oriented towards the common good, drawing on the long-standing tradition of Catholic social teaching and rooted in the gospel of Jesus Christ," Coakley said.

Hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.Gab Tweet

Coakley related that Francis warned against "the danger of a 'green rhetoric' that often coexists with economic privilege and comfort, emphasizing the need to 'hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.'" For Coakley, Biden's environmental policies "resonate deeply with an integral ecology that listens to the 'least of these.'"

Abp. Paul Coakley

Coakley added that Biden will "recommit our nation to robust and integrated climate mitigation policies." The bishop further noted the president will also "emphasize other environmental realities that deserve greater attention," including "conservation of lands, ecosystems, and agriculture" and "economic growth, clean infrastructure, and opportunities for workers."

Coakley concluded, "The swift action to restore regulations for which the USCCB previously advocated — including fuel emissions standards, hazardous air pollutants and the integrity of the National Environmental Policy Act — speak of a commitment to restoring public health and the common home."

Enacting the Laudato Sí 'Platform'

To mark the fifth anniversary of his Laudato Sí encyclical, Francis declared May 24, 2020–May 24, 2021 the special Laudato Sí anniversary year. The end of the year will then mark the beginning of the Laudato Sí platform, which seeks to put what the pope has called "integral ecology" into action.

Integral ecology is a concept found in the fifth chapter of Laudato Sí, which stems from his belief that "everything is closely related" in the natural world at even the molecular level, and that "today's problems call for a vision capable of taking into account every aspect of the global crisis."

To promote Francis' vision, the Laudato Sí Movement, sponsored by the European Union and the Francis of Assisi Academy for the Protection of the Earth, is seeking to accomplish the following goals:

Response to the cry of the earth (greater use of clean renewable energy and reducing fossil fuels in order to achieve carbon neutrality, efforts to protect and promote biodiversity, guaranteeing access to clean water for all, etc.)
Response to the cry of the poor
Ecological economics
Adoption of simple lifestyles
Ecological education
Ecological spirituality (recover a religious vision of God's creation, encourage greater contact with the natural world in a spirit of wonder, praise, joy and gratitude, promote creation-centered liturgical celebrations, develop ecological catechesis, prayer, retreats, formation, etc.)
Emphasis on community involvement and participatory action

According to Vatican News, Fr. Joshtrom Kureethadam of Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development wants to see Catholic communities around the world become "totally sustainable in the spirit of the integral ecology of Laudato Sí."

According to the report, the Laudato Sí action platform "will involve families, parishes, dioceses, schools, universities, hospitals, organizations, businesses, health care centers and religious orders. The priest said, "So almost everyone — but as communities, we become Laudato Sí communities, but always in the perspective of integral ecology."

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Prayer to St. Michael

Please protect us, St. Michael the Archangel, against violence, murder, and robbery. In your goodness preserve us today from all the malice of sinful and wicked persons. In your sleepless vigilance watch over the safety and welfare of our homes, and keep guard over our possessions. Ever hold in your special care, most triumphant St. Michael, the forces of public order against the crimes of evil people, and defend all honest citizens in time of peril. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Novena Prayer to St. Michael

(Pray for nine consecutive days)
Saint Michael the Archangel, loyal champion of God and His Catholic people, I turn to thee with confidence and seek thy powerful intercession. For the love of God, Who hast made thee so glorious in grace and power, and for the love of the Mother of Jesus, the Queen of the Angels, be pleased to hear my prayer.
Thou knowest the value of my soul in the eyes of God. May no stain of evil ever disfigure its beauty. Help me to conquer the evil spirit who tempts me. I desire to imitate thy loyalty to God and Holy Mother Church and thy great love for God and men. And since thou art God’s messenger for the care of His people, I entrust to thee this special request: (here mention your request).
Saint Michael, since thou art, by the will of the Creator, the powerful intercessor of Christians, I have great confidence in thy prayers. I earnestly trust that if it is God’s holy will, my petition will be granted.
Pray for me, Saint Michael, and also for those I love. Protect us in all dangers of body and soul. Help us in our daily needs. Through thy powerful intercession, may we live a holy life, die a happy death and reach Heaven where we may praise and love God with thee forever. Amen.
Our Father. Hail Mary. Glory Be.
St. Michael, Guardian of souls, Vanquisher of rebel spirits, Pray for us.

St John Chrysostom

Our Lord having reproached the Jews with blindness, they might have said, We are not blind, but we avoid you as a deceiver. Our Lord therefore gives the marks which distinguish a robber and deceiver from a true shepherd. First come those of the deceiver and robber: Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. There is an allusion here to Antichrist, and to certain false Christs who had been, and were to be. The Scriptures He calls the door. They admit us to the knowledge of God, they protect the sheep, they shut out the wolves, they bar the entrance to heretics. He that uses not the Scriptures, but climbs up some other way, i.e. some self-chosen, some unlawful way, is a thief. Climbs up, He says, not, enters, as if it were a thief getting over a wall, and running all risks. Some other way, may refer too to the commandments and traditions of men which the Scribes taught, to the neglect of the Law. When our Lord further on calls Himself the Door, we need not be surprised. According to the office which He bears, He is in one place the Shepherd, in another the Sheep. In that He introduces us to the Father, He is the Door, in that He takes care of us, He is the Shepherd. (Catena Aurea)

LIBERTAS ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN LIBERTY
35. And as to tolerance, it is surprising how far removed from the equity and prudence of the Church are those who profess what is called liberalism. For, in allowing that boundless license of which We have spoken, they exceed all limits, and end at last by making no apparent distinction between truth and error, honesty and dishonesty. And because the Church, the pillar and ground of truth, and the unerring teacher of morals, is forced utterly to reprobate and condemn tolerance of such an abandoned and criminal character, they calumniate her as being wanting in patience and gentleness, and thus fail to see that, in so doing, they impute to her as a fault what is in reality a matter for commendation. But, in spite of all this show of tolerance, it very often happens that, while they profess themselves ready to lavish liberty on all in the greatest profusion, they are utterly intolerant toward the Catholic Church, by refusing to allow her the liberty of being herself free.

“If you want to be certain of being in the number of the Elect, strive to be one of the few, not one of the many. And if you would be quite sure of your salvation, strive to be among the fewest of the few; that is to say, do not follow the great majority of mankind, but follow those who enter upon the narrow way, who renounce the world, who give themselves to prayer, and who never relax their efforts by day or night, so that they may attain everlasting blessedness.” -Saint Anselm, Father and Doctor of the Church

PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH, THE PROTECTOR OF CHRISTIAN FAMILIES Great Saint Joseph, who wast chosen of God to be the head of the holiest and most august of families, deign to cast thy eyes upon us, and take us this day under thy special protection. Holy Patriarch, model of the holiest faith, and of the most perfect virtues, obtain for all the members of this family grace to withstand the dangers and seductions of the world, and to remain stedfastly attached to the LORD. Obtain for us that, always united by the bonds of the most tender charity, and encouraging one another mutually in good works, we may taste under thy auspices the sweetness of that peace which JESUS has promised to His true disciples. But above all, when our last hour shall come, obtain for us that we may find grace before the Sovereign Judge, so that, reunited in heaven at the foot of Thy Throne, we may celebrate everlastingly the glory of GOD and thy praise. Amen.

St. Vincent Ferrer -- Sermon on the Last Judgment: In the same way, in the time of Antichrist, the Sun of justice will be obscured by the interposition of temporal goods and the wealth which Antichrist will bestow on the world, inasmuch as the brightness of faith in Jesus Christ and the glow of good lives will no longer shine among Christians. For, lest they should lose their dominion, temporal rulers, kings and princes will range themselves on the side of Antichrist. In like manner, prelates for fear of losing their dignities, and religious and priests to gain honors and riches, will forsake the Faith of Christ and adhere to Antichrist.

Neither living nor lifeless faith remains in a heretic who disbelieves one article of faith. The reason of this is that the species of every habit depends on the formal aspect of the object, without which the species of the habit cannot remain. Now the formal object of faith is the First Truth, as manifested in Holy Writ and the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth. Consequently whoever does not adhere, as to an infallible and Divine rule, to the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth manifested in Holy Writ, has not the habit of faith, but holds that which is of faith otherwise than by faith. Even so, it is evident that a man whose mind holds a conclusion without knowing how it is proved, has not scientific knowledge, but merely an opinion about it. Now it is manifest that he who adheres to the teaching of the Church, as to an infallible rule, assents to whatever the Church teaches; otherwise, if, of the things taught by the Church, he holds what he chooses to hold, and rejects what he chooses to reject, he no longer adheres to the teaching of the Church as to an infallible rule, but to his own will. Hence it is evident that a heretic who obstinately disbelieves one article of faith, is not prepared to follow the teaching of the Church in all things; but if he is not obstinate, he is no longer in heresy but only in error. Therefore it is clear that such a heretic with regard to one article has no faith in the other articles, but only a kind of opinion in accordance with his own will. (Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 5, a. 3)