Editorial: Pope Benedict Speaks on Church's "Grave Misgivings" about Modern Environmentalism

“The Faith is being attacked in My House upon earth, My Church, and many of My clergy are falling into the plan with the octopus, the great world powers that seek to gather all nations into a rule of a one-world government and a one-world religion based on humanism and modernism.” - Jesus, July 25, 1978

LifeSiteNews.com reported on December 16, 2009:

In comments which received absolutely no mainstream media coverage, Pope Benedict XVI, in his World Day of Peace message issued December 8, explained the skepticism of the leadership of the Church in regard to certain strains of modern environmentalism.

"If the Church's magisterium expresses grave misgivings about notions of the environment inspired by ecocentrism and biocentrism," he said, "it is because such notions eliminate the difference of identity and worth between the human person and other living things."

The Peace message warned, "In the name of a supposedly egalitarian vision of the 'dignity' of all living creatures, such notions end up abolishing the distinctiveness and superior role of human beings." "They also," it said, "open the way to a new pantheism tinged with neo-paganism, which would see the source of man's salvation in nature alone, understood in purely naturalistic terms."

Although the media's telling of the Pope's message (e.g. Drudge Report - "Pope Goes Green") made him sound like the latest world leader turned eco-warrior, the message is a far cry from that.

The Pope's Peace message, and his former writings on the subject of the environment, firmly repudiate the solutions that have led the pro-life movement to disassociate from the environmental movement -- namely population control, the above mentioned view that man is not the center of creation, but only a small, even insignificant part, and an agenda for one-world government.

Nearly all the media attention to the World Day of Peace message focused on the Pope's restatement of certain environmental buzz words, as well as his timely call to take the task of caring for creation seriously. The money paragraph for the mainstream media was this: "Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change, desertification, the deterioration and loss of productivity in vast agricultural areas, the pollution of rivers and aquifers, the loss of biodiversity, the increase of natural catastrophes and the deforestation of equatorial and tropical regions?"

However, at the same time the media studiously avoided the Holy Father's above-mentioned criticisms of "ecocentrism," as well as his suggestion that the Darwinist mentality leads to disregard for the environment. "Whenever nature, and human beings in particular, are seen merely as products of chance or an evolutionary determinism, our overall sense of responsibility wanes," said the Pope, adding, "On the other hand, seeing creation as God's gift to humanity helps us understand our vocation and worth as human beings."

Yes, the Pope agrees there is an "ecological crisis," but there is no doubt that he sees this crisis very differently from those who are calling for a global one-child policy.

According to Benedict XVI, "The degradation of nature is closely linked to the cultural models shaping human coexistence: consequently, when 'human ecology' is respected within society, environmental ecology also benefits."

In other words, if we are not going to respect human life from conception to natural death and the natural family, we are not going to benefit the environment.

"Young people cannot be asked to respect the environment if they are not helped, within families and society as a whole, to respect themselves," said Benedict. "The book of nature is one and indivisible; it includes not only the environment but also individual, family and social ethics."

The Pope stressed that he "readily" encourages "efforts to promote a greater sense of ecological responsibility," but only those which "would safeguard an authentic 'human ecology' and thus forcefully reaffirm the inviolability of human life at every stage and in every condition, the dignity of the person and the unique mission of the family, where one is trained in love of neighbour and respect for nature."

Now there's an environmental movement we can all sign up to!

To read the full World Day of Peace Message click here.

“Do not, My children, be deceived by the words of the evil ones about you who cry to you of no space left for man. There is space, for My Father has a plan for every life He sends.
“There is, My children, a fear campaign to cause confusion among you. None of these fears are based on the fear of their God. No, these fears are only built on the socializing of man, and his humanism being exploited to cover every sin, that even the mind of satan could not conceive such diabolical folly." - Our Lady of the Roses, August 5, 1971

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Be loyal to the Vicar of Christ, Pope Benedict XVI

"There is developing, My child, in your country and the world, a most dangerous trend: it is one of separation from the Peter, the head of your Church. You will not bring about this separation from the Seat of Rome! You have nothing to gain but everything to lose, for should you go ahead with this plan of separation, you will lead unto the road of the abyss--leading to the abyss--many souls. Woe unto those pastors! Woe unto the clergy who now set themselves up as leaders to confuse, confound and mislead!" - Our Lady of the Roses, June 15, 1974

"Be loyal to the Vicar of Christ, the Pope.

"Recognize and uphold his authority.

"Hear and read and heed his teaching for of him it is that Christ said, 'he that hears you hears Me,' not of every other teacher, dissenting theologian, or proud scholar.

"The vicious attacks of the present day on the teaching authority of the Pope indicate both the power and the intelligence of the forces of evil. They fully understand what a bulwark of faith Christ provided for the People of God in Peter and Peter's successors.

"Love Christ, love His Vicar, and pray for him." - Most Rev. Edward J. Hunkeler, former Archbishop of Kansas City

"We ask you from Heaven not to leave, not to create a schism from your main body in Rome. You must remain within My Son's Church and pray a constant vigilance of prayer. Satan and his agents have entered in full battle upon My Son's Church. Satan has entered into the highest ranks within My Son's Church and the world. He will manipulate powers, provincials, until he brings about a great chastisement, because man will not listen and mend his ways." - Our Lady of the Roses, February 10, 1977

"Up to this time, My child and My children, you know full well that the wishes and the directives from Rome, from the Eternal Father in Heaven, through Pope John Paul II, they have been cast aside, each and every individual going his own way and making My Son's House a shambles." - Our Lady of the Roses, March 18, 1983

Our Lady of the Roses Bayside messages
These messages came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.

ONLY TRUE RELIGION
"O My children, I will not go into a long discourse now with you about charity and love for your neighbor, but you must understand: you cannot judge your neighbor. You must pray for them. However, you cannot become weak and permissive. You must stand forth as bearers of the light, carriers of the truth. You have been given by your baptism entrance into the only true religion upon earth, the Roman Catholic Church under My Son, Jesus. Though man in his arrogance and pride has forgotten His role and His rule, you must carry it forward. Retain the Faith and the truth in the hearts of mankind." - Our Lady, September 7, 1978

YOUR BIRTHRIGHT
"As in the past, rejection has been the start of a fallen man. Sin has become a way of life with many. You live in a delusion if you believe that you can offend the Eternal Father and then gain eternal life in the Kingdom. No, I say to you: many are called, but few are chosen.
"Ask and you shall receive, believe and you will be given the way. But you must merit the Kingdom. Your birthright was a start, but you must make your way to the Kingdom. Others may gain these graces for you by prayer and acts of sacrifice, but you will accept or reject the key." - Jesus, May 26, 1976

ONE TRUE CHURCH
"My child and My children, you are all My children. I judge you not by color or race, and I do not judge you by your creed; however, should the knowledge of the One True Church be given to you, and the way to Heaven along the narrow road be given to you, you will follow it or you will be rejected." - Our Lady, August 21, 1985

RELIGION OF THE CROSS
"There is only one religion that can save your country and all of the countries of the world: the religion of the cross and My Son's sacrifice upon that cross." - Our Lady, November 25, 1978

SEPARATED BRETHREN
"O My children, pray much! We do not want to see a division in My Son's House. The Roman Catholic Church must remain one! But this does not mean, as the church of man states, that you will bring all manner of heretics and separated brethren in. No, My children, that is an error, a delusion from satan. You cannot change My Son's House and bring them in and change for them! They must change and come back to the original rule given by My Son and those who were with Him in the building of the foundation.
   "I repeat, My child and My children: separated brethren must change. They have protested in the past; they have taken themselves away from the truth and the one true Church. They must reject the errors they have made in the past and come back and start again. They cannot bring their errors into My Son's House.
   "You are opening the doors now for all manner of heretics, separated brethren. They do not come to unite in good spirit and heart; they come to take over. They seek to change you, O pastors, who are being deluded. And what do I see in My Son's House but separated brethren upon His pulpit! Even from the temples, the synagogues of satan, upon His pulpit! And for what?
   "And who are My pastors now that have joined in this plan of destruction? Who ordained some of them? Not legitimate hands. They come to destroy. They come in like rats, burrowing, undermining My Son's Church! Do you think you are not watched? Are you above your Creator that you think you can deceive the world permanently? No, I say unto you! You are being given your time, for you who have given yourselves to satan are now exposing your true nature to the world." - Our Lady, March 18, 1977

ESTABLISHED BY JESUS CHRIST
"There are many deceptions taking place among you, and one being the falsification of the manner of the salvation of souls. When I was upon earth, I established the rules and I gave you My Church, My House. However, now I watch as many have gone forward with itching ears and novelty, and they are setting upon the world a new religion." - Jesus, May 20, 1978

WILL STAND
"Do not be deluded, My children, by the agents of satan among you in human form who preach doctrines of devils. The truth has been given to mankind through the ages. The Holy Roman Catholic Church of My Son will stand. The members shall be reduced to few. Only a remnant, My child, shall carry the banner Faithful and True. But the gates of hell shall fight a heavy battle against My Son's Church, but they shall not succeed." - Our Lady, May 14, 1977

ONLY SANCTIFIED HOUSE
"Your children are wandering into the web of satan, going farther from the House of My Son. The truth is being removed from their hearts. They are setting among themselves groups. They shall not remove from their lives vows of My Son. As the only sanctified House upon earth, their souls will be destroyed when they are not given the Bread of living life. This Bread will only be obtained in the sanctified House of My Son. Satan seeks to remove the tabernacle from among you." - Our Lady, August 5, 1973

Directives from Heaven http://www.nuestrasenoradelasrosas.org/directives/directives.htm