New Priests Will be Expected to Preach Global Warming

[CharlesDavenport]

Got to love this "journalism" as part of the set up for this story -

In the United States, global climate change is a hot topic. Particularly among Catholics who tend to be politically conservative. American political conservatives don't usually accept the science on global warming. The problem? The Catholic Church does accept the science, and now there's a request that priests learn about it as part of their formation.

Yeah, the issue is that there is no science that supports it, ya dumdum.

Apparently Marshall didn't get the memo on the warming "pause" for the last 19 years.

The Earth's temperatures are spiking faster that at any time in history. The speed of the warming is so great, it is fueling extinctions and other crisis. Natural selection, evolution and adaptation cannot keep up with the pace of rapid change.

She also seems to have temperature data from all of history.

Anyway, the Church has officially jumped the shark IMO with this -

Now updated guidelines for the formation of clergy says new priests should understand this as well:

"Protecting the environment and caring for our common home -- the Earth, belong fully to the Christian outlook on man and reality. Priests should be "promoters of an appropriate care for everything connected to the protection of creation."

The new guidelines suggest that in the future, priests will also have a good grasp of the global climate change problem and will share this with their congregation.

Yes, we must act now to stop the man made global warming that isn't happening.

These are tough times to be Catholic.

 

[Spike]

Move the Vatican to Antarctica

 

[Supersteeler]

I'll bet their council or the Vatican or whoever got a pretty penny for that.

 

[oneforthebus]

It annoys the crap out of me when people say you either "accept the science" or you don't. It's such a massive oversimplification. There is no scientific consensus on a lot of the aspects of the issue...i.e. how much each causal factor contributes, what the negative effects may or may not be, whether it can be reversed, whether the proposed solutions will even help....to pretend it's just one solid block of scientific consensus that you either accept or you don't is entirely misleading.