When I was growing up and attending Catholic schools, I was taught that the pope is infallible.
But I read Pope Francis’ encyclical letter last week, and now I can only conclude that at least this pope is fallible. This declaration is so filled with anti-Christian fallacies that one has to wonder whether we have a pope who is actually Catholic.
What about China? Amazingly, the pope pointedly gives the world’s greatest polluter a free pass. He declares that “emissions per individual in the United States are about two times greater than those of individuals living in China, and about seven times greater than the average of the poorest countries.”
Yes, America uses more energy than any other nation, but that is because we produce far more output than any other nation. It’s one of the reasons the United States is the breadbasket of the world. Worst of all, we now have a Vatican that has aligned itself with the radical “limits to growth” theology of leftist environmentalists. The radical greens view human beings as the problem, not the solution — which is contrary to Catholic dogma that there is dignity in every human life.
Another way of saying this is that the Western world’s economic affluence and our advanced “lifestyles” haven’t held back the poor countries or jeopardized civilization. We have made life on Earth profoundly better for everyone. The pope’s call for energy poverty is a call for everyone to get poorer. That hardly seems a Christian solution.
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