{"id":1628909,"date":"2022-09-01T03:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628909"},"modified":"2022-09-01T03:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T07:18:04","slug":"pope-francis-ushers-in-radical-environmentalism-under-the-guise-of-catholic-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-ushers-in-radical-environmentalism-under-the-guise-of-catholic-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Ushers In Radical Environmentalism Under The Guise Of \u2018Catholic Teaching\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpope-francis-ushers-in-radical-environmentalism-under-the-guise-of-catholic-teaching%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628909&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Pope Francis\u2019 militant environmentalism comes couched in the devotional language of his 2015 encyclical \u201cLaudato S\u00ed.\u201d What he calls \u201cthe Gospel of Creation\u201d is a politicized assault on fossil fuels, industrial development, economic freedom, and private property. It is the Great Reset in cope and chasuble.<\/p>\n<p>A Vatican campaign intent on social, political, and economic transformation arrives this year in two stages. The first appeared in May. The second starts today, Sept. 1, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, and lasts until Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi.<\/p>\n<p>Because September\u2019s sequel will continue the game plans established in May, attention belongs there.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican\u2019s fourth annual Laudato S\u00ed Week ran from May 22 to 29. Overlooked by corporate media, it was only nominally a religious event. Assisted by the Laudato S\u00ed Movement (formerly the Global Catholic Climate Movement), plus 800 affiliated Catholic advocacy groups around the world, it confirmed the Vatican\u2019s rapport with the World Economic Forum (WEF).<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, it revealed the strain of soft-core pantheism that Francis shares with liberation theologian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/education\/news-wires-white-papers-and-books\/boff-leonardo-1938-theologian\">Leonardo Boff,<\/a> his advisor on \u201cLaudato S\u00ed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>May\u2019s event featured the Laudato S\u00ed Action Platform, a new series of grassroots strategies designed to save our \u201chotter, dirtier, deader planet\u201d from the people on it. Recommended \u201csustainability initiatives\u201d paralleled those of the WEF\u2019s Centre for Nature and Climate. These encourage Catholics to lobby for specific U.N. agendas on biodiversity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/discover\/news\/2022\/june\/cop15-explained.html\">(COP15)<\/a> and climate change <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Climate_Change_conference\">(COP26).<\/a> This way the faithful can atone for \u201ccivilization\u2019s assaults against God\u2019s own handiwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The platform\u2019s statement \u201cacknowledges the planetary limits of all socio-economic systems and the human roots of the ecological crisis.\u201d Accordingly, it seconds Davos\u2019 endorsement of \u201ccircular economies,\u201d a veil for economic policy set by global elites and the replacement of <em>share<\/em>holders by <em>stake<\/em>holders. Stakeholder capitalism is backdoor Marxism, a stalking horse for income redistribution. In brief, Vatican nomenklatura affirms WEF\u2019s ambition to achieve consequential social and political transformation outside of democratic procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Action Platforms aim to \u201clift up Catholic teaching\u201d on biodiversity and attain carbon neutrality. In a nod to the U.N. Document on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, activists will launch \u201cecological restoration activities.\u201d The phrase masks globalist devices for whittling away at national sovereignty by gerrymandering national borders \u2014 one way to rehabilitate our \u201ccommon home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Platform for Ecological Spirituality seeks \u201ccreation-based liturgical celebrations\u201d and the development of \u201cecological catechesis.\u201d The Platform for Ecological Economics marshals Catholics against \u201cany activity harmful to the planet.\u201d Included in the week\u2019s kick-off was a Laudato S\u00ed Mass sponsored by Ugandan Catholics opposed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/laudatosiweek.org\/2022\/05\/19\/laudato-si-week-2022-complete-schedule\/\">pipeline<\/a> that would carry crude oil extracted in Uganda to Tanzania. Instead, Africans were enjoined to \u201crestore creation by planting trees, and listen to the cry of the Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Day four showcased a webinar of enthusiasts for climate justice. The panel was chaired by eco-theologian Martin Kopp of Green Faith, an interfaith coalition of degrowth agitators for \u201cclimate reparations\u201d and the abolition of fossil fuel. Abortion advocate Jeffrey Sachs participated by urging divestment from fossil fuel as \u201cvery important for our souls and our institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In sum, recommended actions championed every commandment of spiritualized Greenery. These will re-sanctify planet Earth by reviving the \u2014 imaginary \u2014 eco-innocence of pre-modern lifestyles. The entire project leaned heavily on Leonardo Boff\u2019s 1997 \u201cCry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor,\u201d a testament to the intuitions of liberation theology.<\/p>\n<p>Two platforms even took their names from the book title. A former priest, Boff argued for \u201crecovery of the aspect of truth in paganism, with its rich pantheon of divinities inhabiting all the spaces in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phase two begins Sept. 1, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. It marks the onset of a quasi-liturgical period dubbed the Season of Creation. Newly invented, it continues until Oct.  4, the feast day of\u00a0 St. Francis of Assisi. To generate momentum for this year\u2019s theme \u2014 \u201cListen to the Voice of Creation\u201d \u2014 the pope hurried to release a commemorative <a href=\"https:\/\/slmedia.org\/blog\/pope-francis-message-for-the-world-day-of-prayer-for-the-care-of-creation-2022\">message<\/a> to the world on July 21, a full five weeks ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>Defined by Francis, creation season is as penitential as Lent: \u201cWe must repent and modify our lifestyles and destructive systems.\u201d Only \u201cecological conversion\u201d will forestall catastrophe and redeem the \u201cecological debt\u201d incurred by the ravaging West. Our \u201cconsumerist excesses\u201d and \u201cpredatory economic interests\u201d induce \u201cthe collapse of our planet\u2019s ecosystem and the extinction of species.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francis rails against the West\u2019s \u201ctyrannical anthropomorphism.\u201d His accusation borrows from Boff\u2019s many restatements of historian Lynn White\u2019s influential charge published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.155.3767.1203\">Science<\/a> in 1967. Lynn attributed \u201cecologic crisis\u201d to the Christian\/biblical tradition. He indicted Christianity as \u201cthe most anthropocentric religion the world has seen\u201d because it teaches that only man is made in the image and likeness of God. (Boff scoffed at the teaching as \u201can androcentric archaism.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Francis anticipated this month\u2019s campaign by anthropomorphizing nature. Creation has a \u201cvoice.\u201d A suffering earth \u201ccries\u201d; it issues \u201can anguished plea\u201d that \u201claments our mistreatment.\u201d The \u201cgrandiose cosmic choir\u201d sings reminders that \u201cwe are not disconnected from the rest of creatures, but joined in a splendid universal communion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only conscious beings can commune with each other. Promises \u2014 such as God\u2019s to Noah and Abraham \u2014 can only be made to persons. Francis\u2019 call for \u201ca covenant between human beings and the environment\u201d attributes sentience to the environment. His phrasing goes hand-in-glove with Boff\u2019s belief that:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>All the living and nonliving elements are interconnected and make up an organic whole in dynamic equilibrium: the great living being, Earth \u2026 as the indigenous peoples and the mystics have always called it, the great and good Mother, Nurse, and Pacha Mama.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The line between the crackpot and the mystic is broad and deep. But the chasm can be obscured with rational-sounding phrases (e.g. \u201cintegral human development,\u201d \u201csustainability\u201d) and magpie assemblages of quasi-scientific references woven together with Christological language. Proclaimed concern for the poor camouflages the flummery. Yet papal hostility to Western means of prosperity is a greater threat to the world\u2019s poor than climate change.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Maureen Mullarkey is a painter and a critic. A member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), she writes on art and its intersection with religious and politics. Her essays have appeared in various publications, including The Nation, The Hudson Review, Arts Magazine, Art &#038; Antiques, and The American Arts Quarterly. She was a columnist for The New York Sun during its life as a print publication. Currently, she is a senior contributor to The Federalist, an irregular contributor to The Weekly Standard, and keeper of a weblog titled <a href=\"http:\/\/studiomatters.com\">Studio Matters<\/a>. She is represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC. 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