Politics

By Lisa Bourne, LifeSiteNews - California Gov. Jerry Brown told a recent Vatican climate conference that brainwashing is needed to get people to accept the idea of man-made climate change… “At the highest circles, people still don’t get it… It’s not just a light rinse” that’s required. “We need a total, I might say, ‘brainwashing.’.. “We need to wash our brains out and see a very different kind of world.”.. Brown talked for more than 40 minutes at the Vatican climate conference

By Rev. James V. Schall, S.J., Crisis Magazine - “War and Climate Change Are Causes of Hunger” (Oct. 20, 2017). These words were contained in an address that Pope Francis gave in Rome to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations… Most of the controversy about “climate change” has to do not with agriculture but with politics wherein some human agent, usually progress, population, or free markets, can be blamed and, as a cure, more power can politically be given to governments to control it.

By John Horvat II, Crisis Magazine - The new book, Pope Francis and the Caring Society, appears like a team of economists forced to study the encyclical Laudato Si’ in theory and then wonder if it might work in practice. Most of the team members answer the question with a qualified no... the work was written as a sincere effort to heed the pontiff’s call for “dialogue” on the economic and ecological issues underlying the controversial encyclical.