The Religion of Global Climate Change

[Denise]

Laudate Deum consistently turns qualified statements about the world into certainties appropriate only for articles of faith. Unlike a truly scientific discussion, it does not review counter-objections or conflicting evidence.

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2023/1 ... 0e2ee99a66

[MarieT]

rightly the article argues of
the papal role in safeguarding the Deposit of Faith, Revelation and
the role of the laity.
this was discussed in a previous post regarding the Church on this forum.

Recap the hierarchy (Pope, Bishops, clergy etc) alongside the Sacraments, constitutes the Structure of the Church while the laity form the substance of the church.

of the 3 elements, if at any time one is missing from the mystery, substance, structure then one cannot define it as Church. All 3 elements must be present.
Naturally the mystery is always present because it is the link to Christ and not even the gates of hell can prevail against it.....

If you do not have the substance element - the people of God - the laity then there is no point having a structure because there would be no one to preach to or administer sacraments to and the mission and evangelization aspects the laity are then called to go out and live....is affected.

the author quotes the exhortation "Laudate Deum" .

a bit of a definition on exhortations firstly

Apostolic Exhortations are addresses emphatically urging the faithful to consider a particular spiritual matter or activity, of importance to the Pontiff. Despite the similarities, apostolic exhortations carry less authority than encyclicals, and are not considered legislative.

Laity can be scientists so technically they are included. The scientists may be Catholic also or by inclusion be exposed to the Catholic real. Mission is an extraordinary thing and the way the Holy Spirit brings in people to the fold.

what is concerning and what should ring alarm bells for us is the comment:

In a concluding section on “Spiritual Motivations,” the Exhortation cites a book by a particularly disturbed feminist and anti-natalist professor, Donna Haraway, as the source of the idea of “contact zones” where diverse living things meet. Ah, but it was Mary Louise Pratt who famously came up with that concept, not Donna Haraway. But why worry about footnotes? Or sources?

in all writings of that level, academic standards of footnotes and bibliography sources are required or serious plagiarism may result.

66. God has united us to all his creatures. Nonetheless, the technocratic paradigm can isolate us from the world that surrounds us and deceive us by making us forget that the entire world is a “contact zone”. [41]

this is the quote.....the author of the article states that the real author of Francis' quote is Mary Louise Pratt not Haraway as referenced.

Pratt is a renowned scholar in the field of linguistics....Professor of spanish and portuguese languages and literature.