Pope Leo Channels Pope Francis and the Communists on Laudato Si

When I watched the pope bless the block of ice (3:18) I couldn't help feeling like it was a skit from Saturday Night Live. He should be as good to the ICE agents and bless them instead of casting aspersions on the U.S. for their "inhuman treatment of immigrants." What "treatment" is he talking about? - giving illegals $1000 and a free plane ride home if they turn themselves in. The Vatican has walls and laws protecting the Vatican state. Do they "welcome the stranger" coming in with criminal intent?

We are all called to be stewards of the earth, but the environmental movement is based on bad science and corrupt politics. As Vice President Lyndon Johnson said, "He who controls the weather will control the world. " 

I've read in the past about the connection between Communism and the environmental movement, so I was interested to find that The Epoch Times has serialized an adaptation from Chinese of the book How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World. Does anyone really believe that Communism died when the Berlin Wall came down? 

Chapter 16 emphasizes the Communist roots of environmentalism. It begins:

Communism has made intricate preparations in many fields for the destruction of humanity. Originating in Europe, communism launched violent revolutions and seized power in the two great powers of the East — Russia and China. The communist camp and Western society entered into a long confrontation in the Cold War. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European communist bloc, communists began sowing their factors in both Eastern and Western societies and also sought to establish a tightly controlled global government.

In order to achieve this goal, communism must create or use an “enemy” that threatens all of mankind and intimidates the public around the world into handing over both individual liberty and state sovereignty. Creating a global panic about looming environmental and ecological disasters almost appears an inevitable route to achieving this goal.

The chapter is chilling and it convincingly presents the union between Communism and environmentalism. Frederick Engels, intimate friend of Karl Marx and co-founder of Marxism, published this in his collected essays, Dialectics of Nature (1883): 

Life is the mode of existence of albuminous [i.e., proteinous] bodies.

Commentary on this view describes the attitude of Communism which makes man lower than the environment God created for him: 

In this view, human life is a no more than a unique configuration of proteins, no different in any essential manner from animals or plants — thus, it is only logical that humans may be deprived of freedom, and even their lives, in the name of protecting nature.

The chapter continues giving many examples of Communist writers placing the environment above human life itself and calling for global action. Sadly, the pope and our bishops appear to have embraced this error with gusto. While paying lip service to the priority of life issues, we get almost no discussion about protecting life and the evils of abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, etc. On the other hand we get endless commentary and scolding about obligation to protect the planet. 

The green movement is red!

The Green Party had its origin in Communism (check out Gorbachev's involvement) and its adherents have often used eco-terrorism in the mode of the Bolsheviks to advance its cause. Like Communism, the Green movement teaches that the end justifies any means used to protect the planet:

Greenpeace co-founder, Paul Watson, who left the organization in 1977, said: “The secret to David McTaggart’s [the former chairman’s] success is the secret to Greenpeace’s success: It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true… You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth, and a myth-generating machine.” ...

The strategy employed by radical environmental organizations such as Greenpeace is to use any means necessary to achieve their goals. On this point, radical environmentalism is highly consistent with communism.

That Catholics, especially the pope and bishops, have become co-operators in this fraud is tragic. There is no "scientific consensus" on climate change. It's a manufactured myth to advance globalism. As always Communists use fear and fellow travelers (like Greta Thunberg, Pope Francis, and Pope Leo) to advance their cause. We need to challenge the lie and respond with the truth. Sharing Chapter Sixteen is one way to do it. Don't let the commies control the narrative without pushback. As for Pope Leo, put him on ice. He has nothing constructive to add to the discussion.