Lex orandi, lex credendi never looked more threatening . . . Eco-salvation on its way

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Pope’s eco-manifesto looks like a game-changer in the US | Crux.

Today’s sermon, Friday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time, day after promulgation of eco-manifesto by the reigning supreme pontiff:

You have heard it said (just heard it, in fact,  Matt 6.19-23),

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth,
where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal.
But store up treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.

But I say unto you (now that Francis has spoken), the earth itself is a treasure . . .

(Transmission garbled for rest of message . . . )

Get ready, all ye churchgoers, there’s more to come . . .

Also this scenario, sure to eventuate:

Penitent: Forgive me, Father, I have sinned. It’s…

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Pope Francis a true believer — in politics

Mises Daily | Mises Institute.

Pope Francis’s Relentless Pessimism Fuels His Faith in Politics

JUNE 19, 2015

TAGS Global EconomyWorld History

Pope Francis’s new encyclical “On Care for Our Common Home” has been released to much acclaim from the mainstream media. One Germannews sourcedeclares “Papal encyclical could break climate change deadlock.” “Pope Francis’ views on climate change present a moral challenge to many 2016 GOP contenders,”declares US News and World Report. Not in many decades has a papal document been so easily used as a tool for political and electoral ax-grinding.

When the truth hurts — badly.