The Religion of Global Climate Change (Article)

My worry about Laudate Deum (“all you praise God”), the recent Apostolic Exhortation “to all people of good will on the climate crisis,” is that because it represents an incursion into the domain of the laity, it implicitly converts a matter of prudence, which always involves an awareness of trade-offs, into a matter of faith.

I take my doctrine on the laity from Vatican II.  In Lumen gentium, bishops are accorded the role of defining doctrine in faith and morals.  Their specific competence in this task…

Excerpt taken from “The Religion of Global Climate Change – The Catholic Thing”, published by Michael Pakaluk | October 26, 2023|