Vatican urges Catholics to drop investments in fossil fuels, arms

[Glennon_P]

Well! How can I argue with a moody actor and the creator of the internet!

Quite easily, I’ve found.

 

[StudentMI]

Ethika Politika | What Authority Does Catholic Social Teaching Have?

 

[Adamek]

Sorry to jump in mid-stream, but …The calls were contained in a 225-page manual for church leaders and workers to mark the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical “Laudato Si”

It is not clear who authored this manual, but it certainly was not the Pope. So, are we now extending the “infallibility” label to the entire Vatican bureaucracy? What authority to the authors have? Are they scientists? Econimists? Globalists?

 

[stpurl]

Exactly. Too many ultramontanists are attempting to invoke everything that can be said in the remotest way to be ‘from the Pope/Vatican’ into “the 11th infallible commandment.”

 

[Rubee]

I do not believe that the charism of infallibility protects ‘the Vatican’ when speaking on subjects not related to faith and morals.

That’s true, but at the same time, we cannot be so quick as to assume everything touching on economics that the church teaches about is outside “morality.”

I’m a severe critic of the current papacy, just fyi. I’m not just saying it to defend the Vatican.

 

[Trader]

I wish they had told me to dump my oil company stock at $15 before it fell to $3 earilier this year.

Actually, it would not have mattered because the Vatican has a miserable record of handling its own finances, and I would have concluded that this was beyond their competency. At least I did not invest a lot of money into a leveraged real estate venture in London like they did.

 

[Mrchatsworth]

Is the Vatican bank scandal all super clean now that they can start telling others the morality of investing in chevron or smith and Wesson?