I am glad to meet you on the occasion of your annual Plenary Session, and I thank Msgr. Paglia for his greeting and his introduction. I am grateful to you for the contribution you offer and which, with the passage of time, reveals ever more clearly its value both in the advancement of scientific, anthropological and ethical knowledge, and in the service of life, in particular the care for human life and for creation, our common home.
The theme of this session of yours, “Accompanying life. New responsibilities in the technological era”, is demanding yet at the same time necessary. It faces the interconnected opportunities and critical issues that appeal to global humanism, with reference to the recent technological developments of life sciences. The power of biotechnologies, which now permit manipulations of life that were unthinkable until now, poses formidable questions.
It is therefore urgent to intensify the study and exchange on the effects of such evolution of society in a technological sense to articulate an anthropological synthesis able to face this epochal challenge. The area of your qualified counsel can thus no longer be limited to the resolution of questions posed by specific situations of ethical, social or legal conflict. The inspiration for conduct consistent with the dignity of the human person regards the theory and practice of science and technology in its overall positioning in relation to life, to its meaning and value. It is precisely from this point of view that I wish to offer you my reflection today.

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2017/10/05/171005d.html

1. The human creature seems today to find himself in a special passage in history in which, in the ancient yet ever new questions on the meaning of human life, its origins and its destiny, encounter each other in an unprecedented context.
The emblematic feature of this passage may be recognised, in short, in the rapid spread of a culture obsessively focused on the sovereignty of man – as species and as individual – in relation to reality. There are those who speak of egomania, of a very real cult of the self, on whose altar everything is sacrificed, including the dearest affections. This perspective is not harmless: it forms a subject who continually looks in the mirror, to the point of being unable to see eyes on others and on the world. The spread of this attitude has very grave consequences for all affections and bonds in life (cf. Laudato si’, 48).
Naturally this does not mean denying or reducing the legitimacy of individual aspiration to a quality of life and the importance of economic resources and technical means that may favour it. However, one cannot ignore the reckless materialism that characterises the alliance between economics and technology, which treats life like a resource to be exploited or discarded for power or profit.
Unfortunately, men, women and children from every part of the world experience with bitterness and pain the illusory promises of this technocratic materialism. Also because, in contradiction to the propaganda of a wellbeing that would automatically spread with the broadening of the market, we instead see the enlargement of the territories of poverty and conflict, rejection and abandonment, resentment and desperation. Authentic scientific and technological progress should instead inspire more humane policies.
Christian faith urges us to take the initiative, rejecting any concession to nostalgia and lamentation. Besides, the Church has a vast tradition of generous and enlightened minds, which have opened up the roads for science and knowledge of their age. The world needs believers who, with seriousness and joy, are creative and proactive, humble and courageous, resolutely determined to repair the fractures between generations. This fracture interrupts the transmission of life. We exalt the inspiring possibilities of youth, but who guides the young to the fulfilment of adult life? The adult condition is a life capable of responsibility and love, both towards the future generation and towards the past. The life of fathers and mothers in advanced age should be honoured for what it has generously given, not discarded for what it no longer has.


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The Transgender Movement has also spawned this: Governor Brown, a pro-abortion, pro-marijuana and modernist Catholic has signed a new law that could imprison people who refuse to use the new transgender names and pronouns.

It sounds like they could imprison Pope Francis if they could get their hands on him.

Whew, good thing he doesn't exist then; that was close!

Who? Pope Francis? or Governor Brown? 

Pope who?

What, did this guy...



... snuff it?

So you would say that the Pope lives in Africa?

2. The source of inspiration for this resumption of initiative, yet again, is the Word of God, which illuminates the origin of life and its destiny.
A theology of Creation and Redemption able to translate into the words and gestures of love for every life and for all life would appear today to be more necessary than ever to accompany the path of the Church in the world in which we now live. The encyclical Laudato si’ is like a manifesto for this resumption of God and man’s outlook on the world, starting from the great account of revelation offered to us in the first chapters of the Book of Genesis. It says that each one of us is a creature wanted and loved by God for itself, not only as an aggregate of cells, well-organised and selected through the course of the evolution of life. The whole of creation is as inscribed in the special love of God for the human being, which extends to all the generations of mothers, fathers, and their children.
The divine blessing of the origin and promise of an eternal destiny, which are the foundation of the dignity of every life, are of all and for all. The men, women and children of the earth – this is what populations are made of – are the life of the world that God loves and wishes to bring to salvation, excluding no-one.
The biblical account of Creation must always be reread anew, to appreciate all the breadth and depth of the gesture of love of God Who entrusts creation and history of the world to the alliance of man and woman.
This covenant is certainly sealed by the union of love, personal and fruitful, that marks the way of the transmission of life through marriage and the family. However, it goes well beyond this seal. The alliance of man and woman is called to take into its hands the guidance of all society. This is an invitation to responsibility for the world, in culture and politics, in work and in the economy; and also in the Church. It does not mean simply equal opportunities or mutual recognition. It means, above all, the understanding between men and women on the meaning of life and the path of peoples. The man and woman are not called upon solely to speak of love, but to speak with love of what they must do to ensure that human coexistence is realised in the light of God’s love for every creature. To speak and to ally, because neither of the two – neither man by himself, nor woman alone – is able to assume this responsibility. Together they were created, in their blessed difference; together they sinned, for their presumption to supplant God; and together, with the grace of Christ, they return to God’s presence, to honour the care of the world and of history that He entrusted to them.

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A few moments with a punch







Our Future

Are you just a total buffoon or what? The heretic Francis made this comment last year...

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/full-text-pope-francis-in-flight-press-conference-from-azerbaijan-24352

Josh McElwee, National Catholic Reporter: Thank you, Holy Father. In that same speech yesterday in Georgia, you spoke, as in so many other countries about gender theory, saying that it is a great enemy and a threat against marriage. But, I would like to ask you, what would you say to someone who has struggled with their sɛҳuąƖity for years and feels that there is truly a problem of biology, that his aspect doesn't correspond to what he or she feels is their sɛҳuąƖ identity. You, as a pastor and minister, how would you accompany these people?
Pope Francis Satan: First of all: in my life as a priest and bishop, even as Pope, I have accompanied people with ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ tendencies, I have also met ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ persons, accompanied them, brought them closer to the Lord, as an apostle, and I have never abandoned them. People must be accompanied as Jesus accompanies them, when a person who has this condition arrives before Jesus, Jesus surely doesn't tell them 'go away because you are ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ.' What I said is that wickedness which today is done in the indoctrination of gender theory...a French father told me that he was speaking with his children at the table, he and his wife were Catholics, 'rosewater Catholics,' but Catholics! And he asked his 10-year-old son: 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'- 'a girl.' The father realized that at school they were teaching him gender theory, and this is against the natural things. One thing is that a person has this tendency, this condition and even changes their sex, but it's another thing to teach this in line in schools in order to change the mentality. This is what I call ideological colonization. Last year I received a letter from a Spaniard who told me his story as a child, a young man, he was a girl, a girl who suffered so much because he felt he felt like a boy, but was physically a girl. He told his mother and the mom…(the girl) was around 22 years old said that she would like to do the surgical intervention and all of those things. And the mother said not to do it while she was still alive. She was elderly and she died soon after. She had the surgery and an employee of a ministry in the city of Spain went to the bishop, who accompanied (this person) a lot. Good bishop. I spent time accompanying this man. Then (the man) got married, he changed his civil identity, got married and wrote me a letter saying that for him it would be a consolation to come with his wife, he who was she, but him! I received them: they were happy and in the neighborhood where he lived there was an elderly priest in his 80s, an elderly pastor who left the parish and helped the sisters in the parish. And there was the new (priest). When the new one he would yell from the sidewalk: 'you'll go to hell!' When (the new priest) came across the old one, he would say: 'How long has it been since you confessed? Come, come, let's to so that I can confess you and you can receive communion.' Understood?

So no! Governor Brown would high five the heretic.

The reporter quoted Pope Francis in saying "you spoke, as in so many other countries about gender theory, saying that it is a great enemy and a threat against marriage."