Radical Bishops Call For The Collapse Of Civilization

0:00Tired of big tech clashing with your Catholic values? Fide chat is now live on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. It's private, encrypted, and built by Catholics for Catholics, with features like parental controls and more. Connect securely with family, friends, and groups. Download Fide chat at Fide.email technology without compromise. We have a story today about the manifestation of this ecophiology that's gripping the church now. Francis issued a document 10 years ago called Ladato Sea. It's a papal encyclical that likes to frame itself as a continuation in development of Catholic social teaching. That body of work formalized and formally started in the Leo the 13th, more than a century and a half ago now, but really developing, but a little bit before that really formalized under Leo the 13th. On the church answering questions of economics and

1:02politics and things, not with direct answers to things that would be directly going on at the time, but more like principles about the larger problems, so that the teachings become timeless. The church's answer to socialism is written in the 1870s and 1880s, still as important then as it is now. As well as on a libertarian capitalism and Marxism and all the rest of it, because they don't just become locked into time and therein lies the problem. See, Francis issued a document called Ladato Sea, which is about care for our common home, the thermometer problem, which are not allowed to criticize on any social media platform. And it was so tied to the things going on that it's already dated, but in that document Francis called explicitly for greater power for the UN to regulate these things and have real power to do it. He issued a SQL document Ladato Dam and 2025, the church celebrated the 10th anniversary of Ladato Sea. It was clearly trying to make this as important of a document as Leo the 13th Raram Novaram, which was the document began the

2:05formalization process for Catholic social teaching. And as part of that, we get this story from Reuters and remember one of the basic rules I try to hammer home. When the secular media starts reporting on activities of the church, you should be paying attention. Headlined from Reuters, Vatican launches project encouraging disinvestment from the mining sector. That's interesting. They want them out of the mining sector. And not just Vatican itself, I wouldn't care if the Vatican said, hey, we shouldn't be involved in this, encouraging broad disinvestment, meaning they basically want mining to end. Think about that and the consequences of that. Take all the time you need. It would be catastrophic. Now, one of the arguments for doing so is that mining is very dirty process, it destroys ecosystems and all the rest of the stuff. Sort of true. Modern mining practices are much cleaner than they used to be. They're not adopted in a lot of countries

3:07because a lot of countries have extremely corrupt governments. Instead, a good alternative strategy moved the Vatican to launch a process calling for these more corrupt places to adopt minor mining standards or peoples livelihoods and ways of life of indigenous peoples and just poor peoples in general aren't negatively impacted by essential industries like mining. Mining has been going on since antiquity. And now, this disinvestment is crazy talk. Vatican on Friday launched an international project encouraging disinvestment from this mining sector and an unusual initiative by the Catholic Churches steer investments away from a specific industry. Officials said the new initiative backed by senior church leaders in about 40 other faith-based institutions would push companies to treat their workers justly and protect the local environment near their operations or risk loss of investments. Detecting the environment is fine. We are called to be stewards of the environment. We're not called to be taken idle out of creation.

4:11In many regions of the world, the expansion of the mining industry has generated profound social tensions and serious environmental impacts, Cardinal Fabio Bajillo, a Vatican official said at a press conference. He called the new effort and active consistency with our faith and the defense of human dignity. But Francis who passed away last year made many passionate appeals during his 12-year tenure for mining companies to adopt more stringent business practices, but the Vatican had not previously launched a disinvestment initiative. It did, however, urge Catholics in 2020 to disinvest from armaments and fossil fuel industries. Now, that all sounds fine, I suppose, except you put it in light and with the earlier reporting that I've been doing recently on Pope Leo's direct involvement in the liberation theology, it begins to make a lot more sense. This is a materialist policy that they've got. And maybe you're not sold on mining. They're taken on mining being bad, but what I'm about to show you is utter madness, because at the same time is that story. Go to complicit clergy.

5:18Under this headline, bishops of the global south want to ban fossil fuels. Look, if you want to make the plight of the poor infinitely worse, ban fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are the only thing keeping the lights on in those places. It's the only thing allowing food to be transported and grown in large numbers. A lot of fertilizers are made of fossil fuels. I would love there to be an alternative available, and I fully support research and development into such alternatives, ones that are cleaner, ones that don't. You've traced toxins in the air and all the rest of it, and if it's true that they have the actual effect on the environment that they claim to have, especially on temperatures, fine. But we're not there yet. The bishops of the global south should know that even in the western countries and northern countries, Marxists like to divide the world into north and south on economics.

6:19Well, in the north, there have been a lot of attempts to implement a clean, green energies. Well, guess what? Infrastructure is not there. Germany is now lamenting that they got rid of their nuclear power plants, but they also say they can't go back because they're so tied to the ideology. What they're talking about doing here is returning, returning man to essentially what they think is the Stone Age. It's, this would have catastrophic effects for poor peoples everywhere, because of the course they'll be the first to bear the brunt of the actual chaos and outcomes of this. Remember, they preach about the preferential option for the poor. Well, the preferential option for the poor would be to keep the fossil fuel system in place. Maybe control the industries more. Have a good conversation about that. But this would have such catastrophic consequences for poor people. But then again, this is what happens when you get bishops talking about things they don't know the first thing about. Catholic bishops from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean,

7:22along with others from Europe and Oceana, issued a manifesto this week urging world governments to abandon the use of fossil fuels because of record worldwide temperatures that they say has increased the suffering of the poor. Catholic economists disagree with this assessment, however, no kidding. The document title manifesto of the churches that the global south are common home. Remember, La Dato Si, care for our common home, was guided by Pope Francis' La Dato Si, and La Dette Dayum, according to the bishops, who write that the alleged problem of changing temperatures as a result of the burning of fossil fuels as a consequence of unsustainable patterns of production and consumption and an economy that kills. The world according to bishops, again quoting Francis, is crumbling. And perhaps reach approaching a breaking point. Catherine Pocoluch, an economist at the Catholic University of America, told EWTN News that this type of sky is falling language does not reflect reality. And quote, no kidding, it doesn't reflect reality. But those bishops are totally engaging in the Konakoto process, as I covered earlier,

8:31you know, the whole dialogue and listening and liberation and ecotheology all that. This is how all these stories covered recently connect together. And bishops out there talking about stuff that they have no idea what they're talking about, promoting a new theology and a new false gospel of materialism and salvation by making a better world. But the better world today promoted, it wouldn't even be a better world anyway. Just be one that is more suffering. It's all that would do. And this isn't suffering for the sake of souls, suffering for the sake of egos. Southern lady says, that is so ridiculous to rid the world of the fossil fuels. This contributes to little pollution overall. Yeah. If you want an environmental problem, you can really tackle that that would meaningfully have meaningful impact on poor peoples and peoples everywhere. And something we could do something about. Plastics in the ocean are a very real problem. Plastics in the water are a very real problem, something like 99% of human beings.

9:32If you have your blood tested, you will have, you'll be fine, that you have microplastics in your body in your bloodstream. We don't even know what the health consequences of that are, but they can't be good. Maybe tackle that or tackle clean water. What really meaningfully help people come up with a system to help local peoples help themselves get clean water. So you don't have to make them reliant on non-governmental organizations and their activists coming into countries all the time to build them wells. Help the people themselves build clean water systems. Help them learn how to clean up dirty water systems and get their governments to get their act together and prevent corporations and others from destroying clean waterways. That would be a far more effective thing to do. But is the church's place? If you can tie it to the gospel, go for it. I don't know how you do that though. Let me know what you thought of all that in the comments,

10:34and remember to pray for anybody that we may have spoken about negatively today, not trying to make angry at people in the church with who have authority in positions of power or great influence. It's problem is people do a good enough job of that on their own, but so please pray for them. It is the greatest act of charity you can do to pray for someone, especially someone you don't like, is a great act of charity and humility. And please pray for the church. And if you've thought about supporting the work, we do it return to tradition, options in the description box below. Patreon, subscribe star, that kind of thing. They do help keep these daily messages coming. It access to a patron-only discord server and the occasional extra piece of content exclusive to supporters that I will post for you. Like I said, pray for the church. I'm Anthony Stein, Ave Maria.