No, seriously! This is an edict from several church leaders.
I arrived at this incredible revelation on a hunt for the relationship between environmentalism and Catholicism after reading this opinion piece in today’s Record by Community Editorial Board member Ruthann Fisher who is a ‘pastoral associate at St. Francis of Assisi Church’ in Kitchener. Ms. Fisher begins her piece (which also includes a federal government-bashing) as follows:
“Can we afford to only honour our Earth for one hour or one week?”
As a Catholic and a Christian, I found that sentence very disturbing. I was always taught to follow the first commandment: I am the LORD your God: you shall not have strange Gods before me.
“Honouring” our “Earth” strikes me as somewhat sacrilegious. I thought we were only supposed to honour God.
Then there’s that whole ‘afford’ thing – stoking up the old fear factor again. Is God going to punish me if I burn some fossil fuel driving to the store? I sure didn’t learn that in Catechism class. Or is she trying to say that I’ll go broke? Or will my carbon sinning hasten the apocalypse?
As a Christian I believe it is our duty to be good stewards of God’s gifts to us and that includes the earth and all God’s creations therein.
So in my quest for a better understanding of where the Church was going on this I came across this notion of a Carbon Fast for Lent supported by many different religions and organizations. In fact you are even invited to Light a Lenten candle this Earth Hour - “A carbon fast reflects the true meaning of the Lenten season.“ (Yikes!!! Are you buying this?)
It’s a strange world today when the only sins that really seem to be ones worth worrying about are those against Mother Earth.
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Update:
Advice to priests: shut up about climate change, talk about sin – Telegraph
You gotta ask God about that – Rockin Traddy
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And please refresh my memory. Where does the Catholic Church stand on abortion these days?
Pelosi prays to St Joseph to pass this abortion-funding bill for its life affirmation, or something – Hot Air (H/T Maz2) [And I got a trackback from Hot Air. Awesome.]
Deus Vult! Pelosi invokes St. Joseph to pass bill that funds abortions – Washington Examiner
“Don’t kill babies, kill the bill” - From: A House, and nation, divided on health care (Gazette)
Health Bill: Poll Indicates Perils for Some Democrats – Wall Street Journal
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Saturday Update
In case you missed it -
Seven-month-old baby survives shot to chest in parents’ murder-suicide pact blamed on global warming – Daily News. (So I guess Al Gore was right after all. Global warming can kill you.)
U.K. warmists now scaring kids – Lorrie Goldstein
Global Warming Nursery Rhymes – American Thinker:
There is a reason why Hitler, Stalin, Mao and other totalitarian rulers have sought to give the state the responsibility for raising and educating their nation‘s youth. Parents cannot be fully trusted to prepare their children to be loyal and productive members of society. It is essential that the indoctrination process begin during those early formative years before any nonconformist values are instilled…
Minister’s global warming nursery rhyme adverts banned for overstating the risks – Mail Online
I’ve been giving serious thought of late regarding leaving the Church as a result of their recent hard shift to the left and their jumping in bed with enviro-fascists..
“Liberalism is a mental disorder: Savage solutions
By Michael Savage”
http://www.librarything.com/work/313543
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“Bible, not medical texts, guide Harper
Toronto Star – Antonia Zerbisias – 5 hours ago
D id Prime Minister Stephen Harper put a condom instead of a thinking cap on his head when, two months ago, …”
This is too funny Joanne, but perfect for a Friday starter.
It reminds me of when in Ontario the teachers went on strike and some of the unions claimed that God was on their side as they spun against the government of the day.
I’m going outside and staying there.
Here’s how I celebrate Earth Hour:
One of their suggestions in the Lenten Carbon Fast PDF (http://omiusajpic.org/files/2010/02/EOC-Lent-Calendar-1_27.pdf) strikes me as particularly odd in the wording. It says, “Remember your baptism today and the power of water.” It then goes on to suggest conserving water. What a strange way to mix religion and environmentalism. They’re really reaching.
Steph, I totally agree. Very strange. Unless they think they can tap into some popular messaging there (no pun intended.)
educ8m – How?
Yes, Joanne, there are a lot of strange gods around these days, not just in our secular culture. When we begin to worship created things rather than the Creator, we’re heading into dangerous spiritual waters.
All of these environmental heresies were forecast in the Scriptures:
For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers [Suzuki, Gore et al.] to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths. 2 Timothy 4:3,4
What better way to describe the lies perpetrated by the Green Gurus than “myths”?
Sadly, the Christian Church is full of apostates and heretics whose ears are itching to hear anything but the truth of the Gospels.
Kyrie Eleison.
by doing nothing
I wonder if the Church will get into the carbon credit trade?
I have broken from the UCC. The final straw was when we were asked to “Pray for the Maldives” lest global warming will cause the sea to rise and flood them. (hasn’t happened – t’aint gonna). My message to them was how about we pray for our men and women engaged in combat against a vicious death-cult in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world.
I’ve been giving serious thought of late regarding leaving the Church as a result of their recent hard shift to the left and their jumping in bed with enviro-fascists..
Paul, we could stop going to church on Sunday if we have to burn fossil fuels to get there. I’m sure that would help Mother Earth.
Oh man; now I have to give up breathing until Easter.
And here I was thinking that giving up pie for dessert was going to be tough.
lol!!! Ardvark you are hilarious!
Marlin @ 12:01 pm – You might be interested in this Holy Post article from January.
“Pelosi prays to St Joseph to pass this abortion-funding bill (Pelosi commits blasphemy again)
I’m reminded of the blessing from the opening of Fiddler on the Roof, where the rabbi is asked whether there is an appropriate prayer for the Tsar. The rabbi responds, “May the Lord bless and keep the Tsar … far away from us!” Nancy Pelosi invokes St. Joseph the Worker on his feast day to exhort him to help her pass a bill that will provide funding for abortions in short order
Today is the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, particularly important to Italian-Americans. It’s a day where we remember and pray to St. Joseph to benefit the workers..”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2474728/posts
It is incredible to me, this lent it is more important to worry about what Lord Al Gore’s-scriptures say about the environment than what lent is all about. Jesus went to the cross to pay our sin debt in full, so we are told to come to him all you who are heavy laden and he will give you rest for your soul.
Now I see that the environmental movement has the sin debts that mankind can be absolved from, by doing the good and right thing in cleaning up environmental messes and the things like abortion are thought to be more friendly to the environment as there will be less people around to pollute “Mother Earth”.
As a Catholic Christian, I see that more and more Catholics are steering away from the scriptures and bible reading and opening more and more to liberation theology of Marxism and socialism as their secular bibles for today. And today’s young Christians as they march off to liberation theology universities and atheist colleges, they end up lapping up all that their professors and tenured anti-God teachers preach as their new truth to believe. And then the children loose their faith in God in favor of liberation theology or atheism and this is the high price the parents are paying for their huge financial outlay. As I see it we indeed are marching toward a time when the whole world will be seeking after a new world-messiah-like-preacher who will bring together the whole world under his environmental influence to bring about a socialist utopia, an artificial environmentally perfect world with no need of looking at their sinful personal lives that need correcting. So no need of a personal Savior for they will have the world environmentally-friendly-savior that no one will be able to disagree with as his power and sway will be over the whole wide world as he will be the kind of Nobel-peace-prize-savior of all mankind.
Its coming folks!
So look out Christians, you will suffer persecution for your belief in the scriptures that Jesus Christ is the true Savior, which is what lent is all about.
Maz2, it appears St. Joseph is a multi-tasker. He’s also the patron saint of Canada.
http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-joseph/
Personally, I prefer giving up carbohydrates for Lent.
You might want to check out the following link Joanne:
http://www.iigcc.org/membership.aspx
You’ll see quite a few christian churches on the list.
About the IIGCC
The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) is a forum for collaboration on climate change for European investors. The group’s objective is to catalyse greater investment in a low carbon economy by bringing investors together to use their collective influence with companies, policymakers and investors. The group currently has over 50 members, including some of the largest pension funds and asset managers in Europe, and represents assets of around €4trillion. A full list of members is available on the membership page.
IIGCC’s Objectives are:
* To encourage a pro-active approach amongst asset owners and asset managers on climate change (through adapting their own investment activities and processes) in order to enhance and preserve long-term investment values.
* To improve company disclosure/performance on climate change (in their role as shareholders and bondholders).
* To encourage public policy solutions that facilitate the move to a low carbon economy and are consistent with long-term investment objectives.
IMO, the mainstream churches are overrun with progressives and profiteers.
it appears St. Joseph is a multi-tasker. He’s also the patron saint of Canada
We could use his prayers on our behalf.
“Victory: UK Catholic Adoption Agency Wins Right to Refuse Homosexual Couples
LEEDS, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.K. Catholic adoption agency associated with the diocese of Leeds has won its case in the high court allowing it to continue to function according to the teaching of the Catholic Church on marriage and family life. Catholic Care chief executive, Mark Wiggin, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that he was pleased but not surprised at the ruling.
“We always felt we had a strong legal case,” Wiggin said. “In law we felt we were justified. We felt very strongly that we had over a hundred years of history as a Catholic charity providing services to children.”
Wiggin said that Catholic Care chose to fight in court so they could remain true to their beliefs. “Our trustees are committed to the teaching of the Catholic Church on marriage and family life and they cold not disassociate themselves from it,” he said.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2474901/posts
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“Architect of Betrayal?: WH Exposes Obama as Provocateur of Catholic Dissention
WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs revealed to reporters today that President Barack Obama actively promoted the Catholic Health Association’s public break with the American Catholic bishops to support his health care legislation.
Gibbs also suggested that the CHA and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious’ (LCWR) break with the U.S. Bishops has provided legitimate political cover for pro-life Democrats to switch their votes from “no” to “yes.”
“I think over the past twenty four hours we have seen strong indications from those in the Catholic Church that support our belief that the legislation is about health care reform, and that it shouldn’t and doesn’t change the existing federal law [on abortion]. The Catholic Health Association and the order of nun’s support is very important,” Gibbs told reporters on the White House lawn for Thursday’s press conference.
CHA president Sr. Carol Keehan and LCWR sparked an uproar this week after they came out definitively in favor of the Senate health care bill, which top pro-life organizations such as the National Right to Life Committee and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in addition to countless others, have strongly condemned as unacceptable for its abortion funding provisions. Since then, in their quest to woo the final pro-life Democrat holdouts among House lawmakers, party leaders have attempted to paint CHA’s support for the bill as a bona fide endorsement from the Catholic community.
So far, the president’s strategy appears to have paid off: some lawmakers have evidently already taken the two groups’ endorsements as an excuse to switch their vote.
Gibbs cited Congressman Dale Kildee’s (D-MI) Wednesday press conference – in which he explained how CHA’s endorsement had “affected his thinking” to get him to support the bill – as a sign that Democrats may be able to get more lawmakers on board in the same way.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2474891/posts
“…Claiming to be wise they became fools… they exchanged the truth for a lie, and worshipped and served creation instead of the Creator”
Romans 1:22,25
Right on, Bluetech.
new slogan for coalition change where did we hear that one
new slogan for the conservative government going forward stable forward looking government building a strong Canada
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The latest climate change craziness, comes from Britain.
That some these rhymes in children’s in Children’s books went too far:
Example given:
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water; there was none as extreme weather due to climate change, caused a drought.
Rub a dub; dub 3 men in a tub a necessary course of action due to flash flooding due to climate change.
Officials ruled that it was overstating the risk.
Joanne’s post:
“And please refresh my memory. Where does the Catholic Church stand on abortion these days?”
The same as always: abortion is murder. We do not have the right to take a human life. Human life begins at conception.
On the other hand, many Catholics have had abortions. Actually, many Catholics have ignored Catholic positions on any number of issues.
There are enviro nuts within the Catholic Church just like everywhere else. To me, religion is not the problem. It’s some of the people within.
Just look at the abuse coming to light in Germany. Priests are human with human failings as well. On the other hand, it’s most likely the majority of those involved were never meant to be priests in the first place. I believe people are the problem, not the religion.
Oh, yeah, I’m a Catholic, too.
Just my opinion.
Ed, this reminds us that we are all human – even priests.
Personally, I see a division coming in the Catholic church just like in so many others where there will be a gulf between liberals and conservatives.
Nancy Pelosi has lost her mind, if she ever had one.
Praying to St. Joseph to pass the abortion-funding bill is an impossibility. St. Joseph is the saint who took care of, and later married, an unwed mother and her baby.
Pelosi thinks that St. Joseph is going to pray for government-funded abortion????
Nancy’s a nut.
batb,I really think that Pelosi’s last botox injection went directly to her brain,and paralyzed the one remaining piece of gray matter!
BTW,anyone wonder where the lame-stream media,Lib/Dipper coalition outrage is today,over Supreme Court throwing out the kiddie porn charge over a search warrant glitch??? Nooooo noise over that one,no one cares a kiddie-porn freak can beat the charge..they are still too busy trying to ‘hang’ Rahim.
batb, you’ve got that right.
The Glo-Bull Warming media propagandists just won’t give up, neither will the cabal at Environment Canada who seek to maintain their budgets into studying this BS.
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Canada+true+North+strong+warm/2704078/story.html
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/hannahs_heart/
“Hannah Jones has spent most of her 13 years in hospitals. At age four, she was diagnosed with leukemia, but the chemotherapy that saved her life also damaged her heart. Hannah’s heart is failing and her only chance to keep on living rests with a risky heart transplant. Now, though barely into adolescence, it is Hannah who must decide what to do.”
We just watched this, what an amazing story!! It’ll move you to tears.
From sadness to triumph, — never, never give up on life!!
today I will be part of a four generation photo. I am as proud as I can be. It is a good proud as we all believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
And as for the little babe in our arms we pray the he will be a great man of God some day. So we carry on, in spite of all the uproar going on down here in this world, as we know in our hearts who is the most important one above all of creation.
And in the end we look to him to be our guiding light in this world and in the next to come, for us who believe in his promise of eternity which we so look forward to and is so much better than all the blow-ups we see down here.
anyone catch the giggle fest about the airport tequila power and politics
how different the treatment
I am still waiting for the security tape of Helena Guergis melt down over her BIRTHDAY
the two are so different huh!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Socialism: “the religion of the Stomach”.
“They seek food over freedom.”
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“North Koreans fear the country is on the verge of a new famine
Once again, rice has disappeared from tables in North Korea. A famine looms and — as happened in the 1990s — millions could die.
Desperation is stamped on the faces of those few who have braved barbed-wire fences, armed guards and patrols to slip into neighbouring China. They seek food over freedom.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2475295/posts
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“GUSTAVE LE BON and the Crowd
Socialism is in fact nothing but the religion of the Stomach.” … Le Bon on the Soul of the Race, theories of national character. …
http://www.fulltable.com/crowd/07.htm
ok I support Helena Guergis
They apparently checked to verify it WAS her BIRTHDAY
how small minded the media has become
Stable Strong Forward looking Government with our Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper
beats hope and change ANY DAY
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”The same as always: abortion is murder. We do not have the right to take a human life. Human life begins at conception.”
Then the obvious answer is for the 21st century Catholic Church to promote contraception, do what is humanly possible to prevent of unwanted pregnancies, and leave the rest in God’s hands…right?
Mary…Amen!
This plays into Glenn Beck’s warning to Christians, when the ministers start preaching about social justice and “climate change”, run for the hills.
No where in the Bible does it say take money from the people and redistribute it for the common good. We are to give our money of our own free will to help others, not be FORCED into it.
Once again you have a man without God, in charge of the whole country of North Korea and everyone in his country must obey only what this man thinks must happen. In his grandeur he is flaunting the building and firing off long range rockets to show off his power before the world at the expense of feeding his people!
This is what happens when a man becomes a god in his nation and enforces his own will upon a whole nation that he calls his people.
The leader of North Korea has risen to the heights of being in total control of all his people because he is accountable to no one above himself. We have seen what has happened in the past! And Joseph Stalin also had complete total control over all of his people and they all suffered at his hand.
But his death finally came and eventually freedom from him came, as no one can rule from the grave. But they will have to face the judge of all mankind eventually and they will have to account for all that they did while here upon this earth.
So justice will come in the long run for the people of North Korea as it did for the people oppressed by Stalin.
off topic
Hunter brought back great memories with her videos of the Diamonds
Bill Reed the great Bass was the brother of our neighbour small world
he died at end of 2004
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I’ll go with teaching third world country medical teams how to conduct safe tubal ligations and vasectomies.
That is family planning at its safest and most successful.
Then condoms for disease control as in every single country not just the third world.