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Tradcast Express, it's Friday, April 14th, 2023.
The so-called Global Catholic Climate Movement
was established in January of 2015 in the Philippines
with the support of Cardinal Luis Tagle of Manila.
In 2021, it was renamed into Laudato Si' Movement,
a reference to the name of Francis' Encyclical on the Environment
issued on May 24th, 2015.
According to the official website at laudato-si-movement.org,
its values include faith, spiritual transformation,
caring for one another, being prophetic,
unity in diversity, being in the church and in the world,
building bridges, embracing contemplation and action,
and living in hope.
The Wikipedia entry of the Laudato Si' Movement notes
that the organization partners with the Vatican Dicastery
for Integral Human Development
to convene various global initiatives
to raise awareness and support the movement.
The Laudato Si' Movement continues to support the movement
and to promote the Catholic Catholic environmental action.
Now, obviously, there's nothing wrong with protecting the environment.
We only have one planet,
and we ought to take care of it in a reasonable fashion,
not exploit it and leave a wasteland for the future generations.
However, despite its claims,
the Laudato Si' Movement is not actually a Catholic movement,
because Catholics who want to help the environment
will always subordinate themselves to the Catholic movement.
And so, the Laudato Si' Movement is not actually a Catholic movement,
temporal concerns, however legitimate in themselves, to eternal spiritual considerations.
The Laudato Si movement, on the other hand, does the exact opposite. Not only are they not
interested in the salvation of souls, they want to create heaven on earth, and they admit it, too.
So, three days ago, the official YouTube channel of the Laudato Si movement released a video with
the title, We are not here to go to heaven, we are here to create heaven on earth. Yeah, they actually
said that. The video is a 13-minute interview with one Patrick Carolyn, who is a co-founder
of the movement and the former executive director of the Laudato Si movement.
of the Franciscan Action Network. At the end of the conversation, Carolyn says this.
My view, and I've written a lot about this, is Jesus didn't come to die on the cross
to save us from our sins. You know, God didn't need to send somebody to die to save us from our
sins. And so, and this, by the way, is not coming from me. This is coming from Bonaventure and
Francis and Jonathan Scotus. I'm just kind of borrowing their words. And
you know, I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing.
So, if he didn't come to die on the cross, what was the purpose of the incarnation? And the purpose
of the incarnation would be to create heaven here. Not to build, not to go to heaven, but to create
heaven here. And so, what we all should be working together on is creating heaven here.
Wow. Folks, rarely do you get this candid of a statement of apostasy. What that guy just said
was heresy.
Heresy and blasphemy. With those ideas, he has totally abandoned the Catholic religion,
Christianity. I mean, there is nothing left. Oh, he claims that this was taught by St. Francis,
St. Bonaventure, and John Dunn Scotus. Yeah, sure. We can have that debate sometime.
It is unbelievable, but if what Patrick Carillon said there is representative of the whole movement,
then these Franciscan climate people have totally perverted the gospel of our blessed Lord,
which is all about salvation, about being delivered from sin and going to heaven.
And they've twisted and distorted and reduced the mission of our Lord into a naturalistic
humanitarianism. When I heard that, I was utterly shocked. Shocked not so much that they believe
that.
But that they admitted so openly. This is naturalism. This is apostasy. There's nothing
Catholic left. God did not become man so that we would have heaven on earth. God became man
to deliver us from sin so we could have a happy eternity in heaven. He redeemed us. He purchased
us back from the dominion. He redeemed us from the dominion. He redeemed us from the dominion. He
of the devil. God created us ultimately for heaven to see him face to face. We are called
to the beatific vision. We are not called simply to live a few years on earth.
What you just heard there is precisely the false gospel that they've been trying to establish
through Francis. Now, Francis, Jorge Bergoglio, would never say it that openly, but that is very
much what he has been gradually working towards, the gospel of man, where in the end, the only
thing that really matters is that you help the needy in their temporal necessities, and the rest,
what you believe, whether you love God above all things, and so forth, all that is basically
It only has significance for Francis insofar as it leads you or incentivizes you to acts of
charity, corporal works of mercy towards your neighbor. That is Bergoglio's gospel of man.
And that is what all this human fraternity stuff is about that he's been talking about since 2020.
And that's why he can say that to him, it matters more that a child
get an education than that it be a Catholic education. That's why Bergoglio can say that
being a Christian isn't about adhering to a doctrine. And that's why he now places the
greatest emphasis on human fraternity and leaves religious questions aside on the grounds that
we are all united in our common humanity. Our religious differences, or what he euphemistically
calls our various differences, are not just the differences between us and our fellow human beings.
religious traditions. Oh, well, those will always be there. In fact, they're necessary because
they're an enrichment to humanity that is willed by God. And we just somehow all worship the same
God anyway. So we can just transcend all that by focusing on living together in liberty, equality,
fraternity. It is a Freemason's dream come true.
That is the false gospel of man, and it is diametrically opposed to the true gospel of
our blessed Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, which is supernatural in essence. You want to invest
your body and soul, your entire being in this life, in this world? Go right ahead, but you will
lose. For he that will save his life shall lose it, and he that shall lose it shall lose it.
His life for my sake shall find it, says our Lord in Matthew 16, 25. And likewise, our Lord says,
And I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of them who kill the body, and after that have no
more that they can do. But I will show you whom you shall fear. Fear ye him who after he hath killed
hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you,
fear him. That's Luke chapter 12, verses 4 and 5. And in Galatians 6, 8, St. Paul tells us,
For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in the flesh
of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap
life everlasting.
And also, in his second epistle, Pope St. Peter teaches that this world, as it is now,
will eventually be destroyed by God. He writes,
But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great
violence, and the elements shall be melted with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it
shall be burned up.
That's 2 Peter chapter 3, verse 10. So, investing in this world as the point of your existence
is not a terribly good idea. In fact, let me mention three more important scripture passages
that establish that. Our Lord told us very clearly where our treasure should be, and it's not in this
world. He said,
Sell what you possess and give alms.
Then St. Paul writes to the Colossians,
Therefore, if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting at
the right hand of God. Mind the things that are above.
Not the things that are upon the earth.
That's Colossians 3, verses 1 and 2.
And St. John the Apostle warns of the false prophets of Antichrist, saying,
They are of the world. Therefore, of the world they speak, and the world heareth them.
That's 1 John chapter 4, verse 5.
In 1910, Pope St. Pius X published,
An apostolic letter suppressing the French Catholic social movement known as Le Sillon,
Sillonism, that's S-I-L-L-O-N, Sillonism, because it was putting forward ideas that
were not compatible with Catholicism and actually distorted the supernatural gospel of our Lord.
Ask yourself if this doesn't sound familiar.
Quote,
We wish to draw your attention, venerable brethren, to this distortion of the gospel
and to the sacred character of our Lord Jesus Christ, God and man, prevailing within the Sillon
and elsewhere. As soon as the social question is being approached, it is the fashion in some
quarters to first put aside the divinity of Jesus Christ and then to mention only his unlimited
clemency, his compassion for all human miseries, and his love for all human beings.
And his pressing exhortations to the love of our neighbor and to the brotherhood of men.
True, Jesus has loved us with an immense, infinite love, and he came on earth to suffer and die
so that, gathered around him in justice and love, motivated by the same sentiments of mutual charity,
all men might live in peace and happiness. But for the realization of this temporal and eternal
happiness,
he has laid down with supreme authority the condition that we must belong to his flock,
that we must accept his doctrine, that we must practice virtue, and that we must accept the
teaching and guidance of Peter and his successors. Further, whilst Jesus was kind to sinners and to
those who went astray, he did not respect their false ideas, however sincere they might have
appeared.
Quote,
He loved them all, but he instructed them in order to convert them and save them.
Whilst he called to himself in order to comfort them those who toiled and suffered, it was not to
preach to them the jealousy of a chimerical equality. Whilst he lifted up the lowly, it was
not to instill in them the sentiment of a dignity independent from and rebellious against the duty
of obedience. Whilst his heart overflowed with the joy of the Lord, he did not preach to them the
same way.
With gentleness for the souls of goodwill, he could also arm himself with holy indignation against the
profaners of the house of God, against the wretched men who scandalized the little ones, against the
authorities who crushed the people with the weight of heavy burdens without putting out a hand to
lift them. He was as strong as he was gentle. He reproved, threatened, chastised, knowing and
teaching us that fear is not the only thing that we must do. We must be strong as we are gentle.
He used the beginning of wisdom and that it is sometimes proper for a man to cut off an offending
limb to save his body. Finally, he did not announce for future society the reign of an
ideal happiness from which suffering would be banished. But by his lessons and by his example,
he traced the path of the happiness which is possible on earth and of the perfect happiness
in heaven, the royal way.
of the cross. These are teachings that it would be wrong to apply only to one's personal life
in order to win eternal salvation. These are eminently social teachings, and they show in
our Lord Jesus Christ something quite different from an inconsistent and impotent humanitarianism.
Unquote. Ladies and gentlemen, that was Pope Saint Pius X from his apostolic letter,
Notre Charge Apostolique, which is sometimes given in its English translation,
which means Our Apostolic Mandate, and that was issued in 1910.
Whoever would appeal to the gospel to justify a naturalism that concerns itself with creating
heaven on earth rather than going to heaven by means of the way of the cross is distorting
the teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Lord Jesus Christ and the very purpose of his incarnation. There is only one true gospel,
and it's clearly not the one preached by Francis and his fraternal climate religion.
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