Since COP26 didn’t heed the warnings of Laudato Si’, a prominent Roman Catholic bishop from the Amazon is calling for a “Day of Wrath” encyclical. Bishop Erwin Kräutler, who has served in the Amazonian region for 56 years, gave his assessment of COP26 in an interview published by the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), a high-level commission of Roman Catholic bishops that officially represents Latin American Catholics at international conferences. He said that he expected “much more” from COP26, emphasizing the importance of strengthening their resolve and commitment to combat climate change and implementing the policies of Laudato Si’.
Bishop Erwin Kräutler went on to propose that Pope Francis should take a much tougher stance on the climate crisis, suggesting that instead of using the phrase “Laudato Si,” a term borrowed from the “Canticles of St. Francis,” the Pope’s next climate encyclical should be called “Dies Irae,” or “Day of Wrath.” This refers to the Day of God’s Judgment. The Franciscan monk Thomas of Celano wrote the Latin hymn “Dies Irae” in the year 1256, [1] which is used today during Catholic mass ceremonies for the dead. [2]
Bishop Erwin Kräutler stated the following during the interview:
Question: Pope Francis can be considered one of the great promoters of defense in the care of the Common Home. Can we say that the advice he gives has political force? To what extent do his words influence decision-making?
Bishop Erwin Kräutler: I fondly remember the day of April 4, 2014, when I was with Pope Francis and he revealed to me that he was writing an encyclical on ecology … I took advantage of the occasion to insist that the promised encyclical could not fail to make extensive references to the Amazon and the indigenous peoples. And the Pope accepted my request in articles 37/38 and 145/146. “Laudato si, mi Signore”!
In the encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis intends to cross any confessional, political, racial and ideological borders and address all humanity on all continents.
Surely the Pope’s presence (at COP 26) would have dwarfed all other heads of state. Too bad he didn’t. I say this precisely because of the warning he made about COP26: ‘Time is running out; This opportunity must not be wasted.’
But, from the results, we see that COP26 did not take the papal warning very seriously. Compared to the COP21 in Paris 2015, it seems to me that it continues to set deadline after deadline, always postponing the fulfillment of agreements that should be observed immediately to decades away.
Perhaps Pope Francis is already planning a new encyclical to express his solidarity with the families and peoples who have suffered as a result of the misfortunes caused by climate change, and to once again call on the world’s rich nations to come to the aid of the oppressed and hungry. Instead of borrowing the refrain Laudato Si’ from the “Canticle of Creatures” by Saint Francis of Assisi, for a new encyclical it will perhaps be necessary to choose a stanza from the “Dies Irae” sequence that is from the same period: “Lacrimosa dies illa, qua resurgence ex favilla judicandos homo reus!” (“That sorrowful day, on which will arise from the buring coals, Man accused to be judged!”). [3]
Pope Francis with Bishop Erwin Kräutler.
What does the Day of Judgment have to do with sustainability and integral ecology? Absolutely nothing! But according to Bishop Erwin Kräutler and Catholic social doctrine, they are intimately connected. Rome is linking God’s Day of Judgment with a Catholic funeral mass song and the climate crisis. They are trying to use hysteria to scare people into adopting the principles outlined in Laudato Si’.
There is a reason for using this climate apocalypse rhetoric. They are hoping to deflect attention from the real sins that we will have to face on the Day of Judgment. Instead of embracing the First Angels’ Message of Revelation 14 that prepares people for the hour of God’s judgment, Rome has replaced the biblical Day of Judgment and the moral law of God with new ecological sin and the new climate apocalypse. The new evangelism is about saving the planet, not saving lost sinners.
The true sins and evil that will be judged by God will come from political and religious leaders who legislate sin. It’s those who have freed men and women from the obligation of God’s moral law. That’s where wickedness comes from, and not through ideological discourses about integral ecology. Ecological sins do not exist in the entire Bible. These are concepts that are completely foreign to divine revelation. All of this is just a distraction to ignore the real problems in our world and to remove the guilt of the churches for neglecting their Christian duty:
“Those who teach the people to lightly regard the commandments of God, sow disobedience, to reap disobedience. Let the restraint imposed by the divine law be wholly cast aside, and human laws would soon be disregarded” (Great Controversy, p. 585).
“Would we know the result of making void the law of God? The experiment has been tried. Terrible were the scenes enacted in France when atheism became the controlling power. It was then demonstrated to the world that to throw off the restraints which God has imposed is to accept the rule of the cruelest of tyrants. When the standard of righteousness is set aside, the way is open for the prince of evil to establish his power in the earth. Wherever the divine precepts are rejected, sin ceases to appear sinful, or righteousness desirable … Already the doctrine that men are released from obedience to God’s requirements has weakened the force of moral obligation, and opened the flood-gates of iniquity upon the world. Lawlessness, dissipation, and corruption are sweeping in upon us like an overwhelming tide” (Great Controversy, pp. 584, 585).
Our churches must not become entangled in ecological propaganda but should focus on the mission that Christ gave us. Instead, the world is being led into grave errors and pagan heresies. This is causing people to embrace Sunday as the solution to the climate crisis. Instead of more reflection and study of the Bible, so-called church leaders are exalting climate ideologies above the true Christian faith. And since there is no reference to any ecological sins, this means that Rome’s climate change agenda falls under the category of a man-made tradition.
“But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” Matthew 15:9.
The Catholic leadership has reached peak climate hysteria with their new remarks about facing God’s judgment. This fear tactic is meant to manipulate and influence world leaders. They have turned the climate crisis into the greatest moral issue of our time. Where is the environment expressed in the 10 Commandments? It seems that all the hysteria and doomsday predictions about the end of the world due to the climate crisis have failed to produce the desired change during COP26. All of the so-called arguments about “science” and the melting ice caps, historic droughts, mega fires, and other natural disasters have not been enough to scare people to act on reducing greenhouse gas emissions (CO2). The Catholic hierarchy is now threatening to bring “God’s judgment” on those who do not act quickly on fossil fuels.
Again, where in God’s law does it talk about fossil fuels? Will using coal, oil and natural gas bring God’s judgment on us? Is this the new gospel, and has “energy” become the “great moral issue” today? That’s the message that is being communicated to the world. Why do these “Christian” leaders insist on destroying the gospel of Christ with this new green gospel? This is not what the word of God says. God’s wrath will not fall on the world because we power our homes and vehicles with carbon-based energy. This is deliberately distorting biblical truth while ignoring the real moral issues of today:
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness … Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.” Romans 1:18-23.
God’s judgments will fall on sin and disobedience. The gospel of Christ addresses the moral wickedness of man. It is a message that reproves the fashionable sins of the time and calls on men and women to turn away from them. But this is not what the popular churches are doing today. We no longer emphasize our moral obligations to God in keeping His commandments. And when apostate Christianity fails to give these biblical warnings and instead uses its influence to spread climate hysteria, they too will be the recipients of God’s judgments.
“So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.” Ezekiel 33:7, 8.
Sources
[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dies-irae
[2] https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/dies-irae
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Brother Andy
I am thankful for the few great watchman, that are not afraid to call sin by it’s rightful name,Thank you for always giving truth that needs to be exalted at this time in history.
God’s speed to you brother Andy
Mr klautler think are cop26 participants, I would advice him to read revelation 7 about four God’s messengers for elect/ remnants.