Woe is the world, says Pope Francis, it’s full of glasses half empty

Blithe Spirit 1 Minute

Company Man

More from the remarkable Steven Malanga in an excellent short takedown of Pope F as in his gloom-filled encyclical.

The pope’s assuming of the apocalyptic tone of the environmentalist is, in the end, ironic. It is the Church’s gospel that offers us the true Apocalypse, which is a hopeful revelation of God’s coming and cause for joy among the good. Laudato Si, by contrast, is perhaps the least hopeful, most joyless document to come out of the Vatican in my lifetime.

Steven Malanga is the senior editor of City Journal and the author of Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer.

via Brother Glum, Mother Earth by Steven Malanga, City Journal June 19, 2015.

View original post

Published by Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

Published

One thought on “Woe is the world, says Pope Francis, it’s full of glasses half empty”

Leave a comment