The most recent flocknote from the Diocese of Tucson, which is my formal geographic diocese based on where live in southern Arizona, just informed me it is Laudato Si week. Hopefully from my past posts you have deduce that I, like the Mr. Houck, who was raided by the FBI, arrested and recently acquitted for peaceful protest in front of an abortion clinic, am a traditional Catholic. We as a group often say we are not in schism with the church of Rome, which we are not. We are not formally separated from the church. The only things we clearly disagree on are things that are at odds with what the bible clearly states.
Case in point, the latest pope, Pope Francis, saying the death penalty is inadmissible (https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2018-08/pope-francis-cdf-ccc-death-penalty-revision-ladaria.html. ) . The Old Testament Clearly states in Genesis 9:5-7 that if an animal or a man kills another man, that animal or man’s life can be taken as penalty. Jesus Christ, God, said, referring to the Old Testament in Matthew 5:17, “Do not think that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets. I am come not to destroy but to fulfil.” If the church is Christ on earth, by the Old Testament, the death penalty cannot be inadmissible even if only in the narrowest of cases, i.e. only with regard to killings outside the bounds of self-defense/war. But not going against the old law is one thing but in reply to Pilate “Jesus answered, thou shouldst not have any power against me, unless it were given thee from above. Therefore he that hath delivered me to thee, hath the greater sin. ” indicates that Jesus acknowledges he, a man, has the power of life and death, even if only given from above. Now, if as the Pope Francis says, man does not have the power of life and death over another man, Jesus could have made it clear that one man should not have the power over another if he had said “in my kingdom only God has the power of life and death.” What ever he said, being God, he knew he was doomed, besides Christ never minced words in any case.
This same goes for other statements by Pope Francis that things like contraception might be okay, or conjugal relations are okay between remarried couples while a first spouse is still alive. But in Laudato Si saying we should take care of the earth because it is a gift from God, which some say is just trying to ingratiate himself to the woke climate alarmists, is not a concept contrary to anything I know of in the Bible but what it requires, in my opinion, puts an undue burden on the less fortunate of us. But since I could afford it I have had photovoltaics and solar water heaters attached to my house as well as purchased and electric vehicle. Just as David respected Saul as being Gods anointed one and avoided killing him when he had the chance, all Catholics should follow the popes guidance when it does not conflict directly with God’s dogma and guidance. But as Saint Paul relates in Galatians 1:8-12 “But though we or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you beside that which we preach to you let him be anathema.” The second part says basically that even those in the church might say things to get along with the world and we must remember Satan is an angel. I see many at the top of the church hierarchy trying to ingratiate themselves with the woke mob. We must all pray and ask fervently for the mother of God to intercede for us at the right hand of the father, her son Jesus Christ and devotedly pray our rosaries in this time of extreme need to save the spouse of Christ from the evil men (many believe are masons and communists) at her core.
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