townhall | It is difficult to convey the excitement I first felt when it was
revealed that His Holiness Pope Francis was invited to Washington D.C.
to address the world from the floor of the House of Representatives.
Many believed, like I did, that this was an opportunity for the Pope to
be one of the world’s great religious advocates and address the current
intolerance of religious freedom. An opportunity to urgently challenge
governments to properly address the persecution and execution of
Christians and religious minorities; to address the heinous and
senseless murders committed by ISIS and other terrorist organizations.
An opportunity to address the enslavement, belittlement, rape and
desecration of Christian women and children; to address the condoned,
subsidized, intentionally planned genocide of unborn children by Planned
Parenthood and society; and finally, an opportunity for His Holiness to
refocus our priorities on right from wrong.
Media reports indicate His Holiness instead intends to focus the brunt of his speech on climate change--a climate that has been changing since first created in Genesis. More troubling is the fact that this climate change talk has adopted all of the socialist talking points, wrapped false science and ideology into “climate justice” and is being presented to guilt people into leftist policies. If the Pope stuck to standard Christian theology, I would be the first in line. If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on. If the Pope urged the Western nations to rescue persecuted Christians in the Middle East, I would back him wholeheartedly. But when the Pope chooses to act and talk like a leftist politician, then he can expect to be treated like one. Artist and columnist Maureen Mullarkey effectively communicated this fallacy stating, “When papal preferences, masked in a Christian idiom, align themselves with ideological agendas (e.g. radical environmentalism) [they] impinge on democratic freedoms and the sanctity of the individual.”
Media reports indicate His Holiness instead intends to focus the brunt of his speech on climate change--a climate that has been changing since first created in Genesis. More troubling is the fact that this climate change talk has adopted all of the socialist talking points, wrapped false science and ideology into “climate justice” and is being presented to guilt people into leftist policies. If the Pope stuck to standard Christian theology, I would be the first in line. If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on. If the Pope urged the Western nations to rescue persecuted Christians in the Middle East, I would back him wholeheartedly. But when the Pope chooses to act and talk like a leftist politician, then he can expect to be treated like one. Artist and columnist Maureen Mullarkey effectively communicated this fallacy stating, “When papal preferences, masked in a Christian idiom, align themselves with ideological agendas (e.g. radical environmentalism) [they] impinge on democratic freedoms and the sanctity of the individual.”
