/lit/ - Literature

>>19195463
Fun fact: this is why both Benedict and Francis want to call attention to climate change. Benedict is more explicit about it than Francis, but it's the project they both share.

The idea is: climate change IS objective reality. You can't deny it. You see some people in the United States trying to deny it, but they're an increasingly small minority and it's increasingly clear they're out of their minds. Fires increase. Droughts increase. Hurricanes get stronger. Sea levels rise and cities are flooded. Ice caps melt.

This is all objective reality and it defeats postmodernism. What the fuck is the point of someone like Derrida when all the coastal cities get flooded? It's no longer a constructed reality, it's real, hard reality that escapes all attempts to engineer a counternarrative.

Benedict and Francis have both realized that this is the key to bringing Christianity back into the popular sphere. Because if climate change is an objective truth, then it invites the question: what are some other truths which are objective? What are some other things that are really real, and not subject to the lens of interpretation? And so through this, Benedict and Francis argue, men can be led back to God.

>Dante
>Protestant

*blocks your path*

http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_letters/documents/papa-francesco-lettera-ap_20210325_centenario-dante.html

>>18076763
Francis has basically been not-so-subtly warning them that if they do all the things they're saying they're going to do, he'll have to excommunicate their hierarchy and declare them to be in schism. You can tell he really does not want to do this because he has been warning them about it for more than a year now. But he seems prepared to do it if he has to do it.

>>17793874
Basically yes. The CDF just laid down the law and Pope Francis put his own personal approval on the document.

>>17549530
The Church has been a component of functioning States for literally two thousand years. To this day there are nations where the Church plays a role in the running of the government. It's only Anglos, and their American offshoots, who have this idea that the Church should be separated from the State, because Anglos are still butthurt about Henry VIII not getting his annulment.

>>17520761
The trouble is that the American press AND the Anglo press are all profoundly anti-Catholic. Anything Francis says that can make the Church look bad, or undermine the faith of Catholics, they'll do it. And unfortunately Francis sometimes does not speak as clearly as I wish he did. I think it's the Jesuit in him. "Jesuitical" is a word for a reason.