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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Cardinal Burke warns faithful about </span><span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)">calls for ‘ecological conversion’
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<div>'What I see behind this is a push for worship of ‘Mother Earth',' says the cardinal.</div>
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<div>LA CROSSE, Wisconsin, January 3, 2020 (<a href="http://lifesitenews.com/" target="_blank">LifeSiteNews</a>)
– <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Cardinal Raymond Burke, known for his outspoken faithfulness to
perennial Catholic teaching, is warning </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Catholics</span> </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>about</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b>recent calls
from <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the Vatican </span>and <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">top </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Church</span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"> leaders f</span>or “ecological conversion.”<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>
Behind<span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)"> this concept,</span> he said, lurks <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">an “insidious” agenda of idolatry
and one-world government</span>.</b></span></div></div><div><div>
<p>“With regard to ‘ecological conversion,’ what I see behind this is <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>a
push for <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">worship of ‘Mother Earth,</span>’” </b></span>said Cardinal Raymond Burke in a <a href="https://thewandererpress.com/catholic/news/frontpage/interview-with-cardinal-burke-he-is-with-us-trusting-in-the-lord-in-turbulent-times/" target="_blank">wide-ranging interview</a> with The Wanderer published Dec. 26.</p>
<p>The cardinal, who is the patron of the Sovereign Military Order of
Malta and Prefect Emeritus of the Vatican's highest court (known as the
Apostolic Signatura), said that <u><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Catholics honor the Virgin Mary as
mother.</b></span></u></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>“In truth, our mother is <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">not </span>the earth </b>— <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">our mother is the Blessed
Virgin Mary</span> in the sense that <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">she gave birth to our Savior.</span> We <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">do not
</span>have another mother, certainly not <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">a pagan idol</span> like<span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)"> the Pachamama,
</span>which is very revelatory of what is behind this whole business,</b>” <b>he
said.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>The cardinal’s mention of <span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)">“Pachamama</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)">” <b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">refers to</span> the October 2019 Amazon Synod in <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Rome</span>, where a statue of a naked pregnant woman was set up for veneration in the<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> Vatican</span> gardens
during a tree planting ceremony which <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Pope Francis</span> attended. The statue
was later brought into <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">St. Peter’s Basilica</span> with pomp and ceremony,
and was again venerated.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Burke said that </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)"><b>“ecological conversion</b></span>” <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">is also being used </span>as “an argument for a one-world government.”</b></span></p></div></div></div><p>“<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>This is <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">a masonic idea</span>, an idea of <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">completely secularized</span> people who
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">no longer</span> recognize that<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">the governance of the world </span>is in the hands of
God, Who</span> entrusts it to individual governments, nations, and groupings
of people according to nature itself</b></span>,” he said.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“The idea of a one-world government is fundamentally the same
phenomenon that was displayed by the builders of the Tower of Babel who
presumed to exercise the power of God on earth to unite heaven with
earth, which is simply incorrect,” he continued.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>“<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">What we truly need is a religious conversion</span>, in other words, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">a
strong teaching and practice of faith in God and obedience to the order
</span>with <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">which He </span>has<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> created </span>us,” he added.</b></span></p>
<p>Burke called “ecological conversion” a “very insidious” phrase that
is being used to “promote a certain agenda which has nothing to do with
our Catholic faith.”</p>
<p>“As far as the environment and ‘ecological conversion’ goes,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> the
Church has always taught respect for<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">nature</span>.</span></b></span> This is why it is taught
that<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> man is the steward of <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">God’s</span> creation and that he will have to
render an account of the <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">creation </span>for which he has been entrusted.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>God
created <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">man </span>in His own<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"> image and likeness</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">,<b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"> that is with intelligence and
free will,</span> precisely for the mission of stewardship of the earth.</b></span> This
is what should be taught to people, not a so-called ‘ecological
conversion.’”</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Pope Francis brought the term “ecological conversion” into vogue in his 2015 encyclical letter on the environment <i><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html#_ftn5" target="_blank">Laudato Si’</a></i>,
in which he made use of the phrase five times. He said that people who
“choose not to change their habits” with regard to the “ecological
crisis” are in need of an “’ecological conversion’, whereby the effects
of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their
relationship with the world around them.” The phrase was first used by
Pope John Paul II during a <a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/audiences/2001/documents/hf_jp-ii_aud_20010117.html" target="_blank">General Audience in January, 2001</a>.
The late pope said that he must “encourage and support the ‘ecological
conversion’ which in recent decades has made humanity more sensitive to
the catastrophe to which it has been heading.”</span></p>
<p>In his <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-go-to-confession-for-not-recycling-repent-of-excess-plastic-an" target="_blank">2016 message for the celebration of World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation</a>,
Pope Francis called on Catholics to have an “ecological conversion” and
go to confession for sins of not being respectful of creation, giving
examples of examination of conscience such as “avoiding the use of
plastic and paper,” “separating refuse,” and “turning off unnecessary
lights.”</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>The concept of <span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)">“ecological sin</span>” was <u>formally introduced </u>to the <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Church</span> at <span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)">the October, 2019 Pan-Amazonian Synod.</span></b></span></p>
<p>“We propose to define ecological sin as an action or omission against
God, against others, the community and the environment. It is a sin
against future generations and manifests itself in acts and habits of
pollution and destruction of the harmony of the environment,
transgressions against the principles of interdependence and the
breaking of solidarity networks among creatures (cf. Catechism of the
Catholic Church, 340-344) and against the virtue of justice,” <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exclusive-lifesitenews-translates-final-document-of-the-synod-on-the-amazon-into-english" target="_blank">stated</a> the synod’s final document.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>In November, the <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-proposes-adding-ecological-sin-against-common-home-to-catechism" target="_blank">Pope said he was thinking about adding</a> <span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)">“‘ecological sin’</span> against our common home” to the <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Catechism of the Catholic Church.</span></b></span></p>
<p>"We have to introduce―we are thinking about it―to the Catechism of
the Catholic Church the sin against ecology, the 'ecological sin'
against our common home, because a duty is at stake," he said in a
speech given at the 20th World Congress of the International Association
of Penal Law in Rome.</p>
<p>Later in the interview with The Wanderer, <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Cardinal Burke criticized the notion of <span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)">“ecological sins.”</span></b></span></p>
<p>“<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>In the same way, there are <u><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">no</span></u> <span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)">new ‘ecological sins.’</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> <font size="4"><u>The same Ten
Commandments that the Lord God gave us on Mount Sinai are in force
today. </u></font></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>We have to respect nature as well as our own human nature. So, I
do not know what this can mean,” he said.</b></span></p>
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