“The Christian world will learn what Romanism is when it is too late to escape the snare” (Great Controversy, p. 397).
There can no longer be any doubt about Pope Francis’ intentions. The Pope is advocating using the strong arm of the state to step in and impose the climate policies of Laudato Si’. He is calling on society to “exert healthy pressure” and take action in order to adopt his climate solutions. In essence, Pope Francis is urging the state to enforce the church’s teaching in an effort to unite political and religious powers into one common vision and mission. According to the Pope, the world’s problems will be solved through Laudato Si’ coercion.
On May 3, 2024, Vatican News published part of an interview that Pope Francis conducted with Roberto Pacilio of La Freccia Magazine. During the interview, Pacilio questioned Pope Francis about whether he thought governments had done enough ever since the 2015 publication of his encyclical Laudato Si’. Pope Francis responded emphatically, stating that the reason he published Laudate Deum, his second climate change document, was because of government inaction. Then he said that in order to get people to change their lifestyles and follow environmental policies, society needs to “exert healthy pressure.”
Vatican News published the following:
• “A healthy pressure from society for respect for Creation – With children we can also learn to relate to Creation, something that is often difficult for adults. The Pope invites us to “grow without losing simplicity”. That of a child, “is not the same as that of a young person or an adult”, he states: “We must all be simple, but according to our age.” [1]
• “The theme, naturally, refers to Laudato Si’, the social Encyclical on the care of our Common Home. ‘How much did governments do after your cry of alarm launched in 2015 in defense of the Earth and the environment?’ asks Pacilio.” [1]
• “They didn’t do enough”, responds the Pope, explaining that this is precisely the meaning of the Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum , eight years after Laudato Si’. “The crisis – adds the Pontiff – requires the involvement of everyone: the whole of society must exert healthy pressure, as it is up to each family to think that the future of their own sons and daughters is at stake.” [1]
Exerting “healthy pressure?” This is just another way of saying “government coercion.” We are witnessing another example of how Rome is doing a wonderful job of working to undermine our faith and freedoms. We have both religious and state leaders who are drunk on political power and are seeking to control every aspect of our lives. Under the pretext of “keeping people safe,” we will soon once again see our constitutional freedoms suspended.
All this is leading to the criminalization of those who will not blindly accept Rome’s climate propaganda. Power corrupts, but the power of church and state corrupts even faster. Our hope and trust must be in God and not in any church-state unions with their dictators, who are using the so-called climate crisis to gain all the power and control they can. These church-state partnerships that are created to monitor and police the “common good” are extremely dangerous to our civil and religious liberties.
“The Roman Catholic principles will be taken under the care and protection of the State. This national apostasy will speedily be followed by national ruin” (General Conference Bulletin, January 1, 1900).
“The Roman Church is far-reaching in her plans and modes of operation. She is employing every device to extend her influence and increase her power in preparation for a fierce and determined conflict to regain control of the world, to re-establish persecution, and to undo all that Protestantism has done” (Signs of the Times, June 30, 1898).
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Craig says
That is the voice of the dragon speaking.
Resia says
The pope is speaking like a dragon.