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There are so many things in this article that are disturbing. Let us just focus on one. You can discern the rest on your own.

The article says it is important Christians who deny Climate Change or those who do not alter their lives in a way to prevent Climate Change “need ‘an ecological conversion’, whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ becomes evidence in their relationship with the world around them”.

Is Pope Francis suggesting that to save our souls, we must save our (possibly unthreatened) planet by embracing the tenets of and accept the sacrifices inherent in the Climate Change dogma? Because if this is where this is going, it leads to a whole different set of questions.

What will happen in the confessional if the parishioners are required to accept and implement proper Climate Change behaviors in their daily life? Will penitents then feel compelled, much like the breaking of one of the Ten Commandments, to admit to the priest  they had their thermostats too high, forgot to recycle the newspaper, failed to buy a Smart Car, or any of dozens of other crimes against the planet? Will the priest hearing the confession be required to punish the penitent for sins against the planet? And what form would that punishment take? Would the penitent need to put solar cells on his house or donate to Green Peace to atone?  Am I crazy or is this crazy?

To read more of the rationalizations the Catholic Church, lead by Pope Francis, is advancing in an effort to create compliance to social justice, economic justice, and environmental justice policies, click on this link.

If you would like to read about some of the ways the Catholic Church will ramp up the indoctrination of its flock into the acceptance of Climate Change, being sure to click on at least a few of the “prayer ideas”, click on this link.

Belling the Cat is a famous painting with a fabulous moral. A group of mice were tired of not having enough of a warning of the cat’s approach. The mice convened a conference where it was suggested all they needed to do was to put a bell around the cat’s neck. After much back slapping at the brilliance of this idea, one of the mice said, but who is willing to bell the cat? The moral of the story, one the Catholic Church would do well to heed, is it is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it. In other words, the Catholic Church may think it is a great idea to expect all of the people, especially in developed countries, to reduce their carbon foot print and their dreams, but will the Church hierarchy be willing to do the same? To learn some of the many ways the Church needs to put up or shut up, or reveal itself for just another hypocritical institution, click on this link.