Losing our Religion

A Vortex commentary from http://www.RealCatholicTV.com

Casting your pearls before swine is never a good thing!

Click here for the Lenten Carbon Fast Calendar http://www.lcwr.org/lcwrsocialjustice/eoclentcalendar2010.pdf

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[chgohulk]

You are not making a convincing point in this video.

This lenten calendar does not contain any errors in Catholic teaching. It is putting forth a resposnibility in the consumption of material goods and resources. Does that speak clearly to a return to a thoughful and austure life as we prepare ourselves for Easter?

Isn't Lent supposed to be a time when Christians are more mindful about being less worldly?

[RealCatholicTV]

>> This lenten calendar does not contain any errors in Catholic teaching

Actually, it does - an implied error, at least. It says we should abstain from meat on ONE Friday; to fail to do so on ALL Fridays of Lent is a violation of Church law.

And the statement "puppies are cute" is not contrary to Church teaching, but neither does is speak to an increase in HOLINESS.

Lent is not a time for reducing carbon footprint - it is a time to grow HOLIER.

[RealCatholicTV]

There are precisely ZERO things on the calendar which lead to greater holiness.

The calendar encourages CERTAIN activities which are possibly laudible; it does not, however, encourage anything specifically Christian.

We are the Church, we are not an environmental help group. The mission is to grow holier.

[chgohulk]

Reducing carbon footprint is dubious science, indeed. Still less material consumption and being mindful of all the effects of all our act, no matter how seemingly small, is an increase in holiness.

But I don't want to continue on on this issue. It is small. Your work on making known the errors of the CCHD and the improper association with any Catholic that advances the morally objectionable crusade of abortion, non-traditional marriage. You bring light on important subjects.

Please continue.

[RealCatholicTV]

>> less material consumption and being mindful of all the effects of all our act, no matter how seemingly small, is an increase in holiness

Not unless it is done SPECIFICALLY with reference to Christ. Nothing done without Christ increases holiness.

Only if we do anything BECAUSE it is Christlike does it make us holier. And the economy-destroying effects of this sort of environmentalism have negative effects which are anti-life, and so it CANNOT be holy.

[TheHiachiever]

Whether global warming, global cooling, or climate change are actually occurring or not, we could all do with a little less materialism. Reducing our carbon footprint is just a popular and politically correct way of saying that we should reduce our dependence on material resources. What's wrong with learning to be better stewards of God's creation?

[RealCatholicTV]

>> What's wrong with learning to be better stewards of God's creation?

Nothing, and it is disingenous to suggest we say it is.

It is, however, wrong to hijack Lent for such a purpose and make Lent JUST about something which has NOTHING to do with the main mission of the Church.

One is not saved by using a squirly lightbulb! If we are, I have been saved for about five years longer than I have been a Christian.

Jesus left us seven sacraments and a Church; not a squirly lightbulb.

[pepper72375]

I salute the converts. They become more Catholics than Catholics.

[lizaanne11]

AMEN!!!!!! It is FAR beyond time for Catholics to start being and acting like CATHOLICS and not a bunch of pansy liberals picking and choosing their way through the Gospels. Either BE Catholic - or go be something else. But don't drag the Holy Mother Church through the mud by living according to "the church of me" and saying you are Catholic. Sorry - that doesn't cut it.

[elijah7k]

I am sure some liberal religious orders in north america have practice that lenten carbon fast and continue to do so.

Their new religion is Green.

[ecclesiaprimus]

Michael, as I often say to you, AMEN!

[chgohulk]

"Only if we do anything BECAUSE it is Christlike does it make us holier." --- That is an excellent point.

[summerlin89128]

It is ironic that while Catholic leaders are encouraging limiting our carbon footprint as a Lenten observance, the American church has universally eliminated the beautiful Corpus Christi procession which leads the congregation out of the church into nature in a celebration of God's material creation through our adoration of the Body of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. As Michael observes, we have abandoned those things which are distinctively Catholic and have replaced them with a dull secularism.

[canhvanglangoc52]

who is this petty and immature person that goes around giving thumbs down rating for everyone's comments........... interesting!

Anyways,......GO MICHAEL! :D We support you, and we support the Church and her teachings. It's hard for society to see the Truth when they are all wrapped up in their selfish desires.