I posted about the Catholic bishops here telling catholics not to invest in fossil fuel companies (which means of course that China will gladly invest and steal these resources, while the average person will have to cope with higher prices to travel to work, cook with LPG, and we farmers will face higher prices for diesel to run out farm equipment and irrigation pumps).
Sheesh.
But hey, the elites who run the church are now telling us the importance of caring for our dogs and cats.
From UCNA news:
Filipino Catholics lobby for animal rights Thousands of animal lovers flock to churches seeking blessings for their pets ahead of feast day of Saint Francis
| Pet lovers pose with their pets in Immaculate Conception parish in Jalaan, Misamis Oriental province during a rally for Animal rights. (Photo supplied) |
“We’re here not only for the blessing of pets but also for pet baptismal day. Yes, we want our pets to be baptized even by a mere ceremony to mark their identity as Catholic pets,” dog lover Carol Sebastian told UCA News. Sebastian and fellow pet lovers had submitted a proposal to their parish priest to allow them to celebrate a “pet wedding” wherein partner dogs and cats may be blessed by a clergyman to simulate the sacrament of marriage.
at least the bishops spokesman reminded them the sacraments were for humans.
The Pope is pointing to St Francis for this love of animals and the environment.
Silly me. I don't remember him pushing environmentalism over poor people. But never mind.
This is just one more way the church is busy pushing PC stuff instead of preaching Jesus and holiness.
as for stray dogs: The number of street dogs skyroeketed after covid hit, and it would break your heart to see them. But with rabies being a threat, no one will adopt them.
As for cats: All the cats in the area (both feral and our house cats) disappeared last January, probably from an infectious disease, and they are just starting to come back.
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Related item: First Things article on saving the forests in Palawan.
Illegal logging is a big problem here: it survives due to corruption. Outsiders come in, bribe the local officials to look the other way, and hire locals to do the work.
And local poor people go along with it because they have families to feed.
Alas, the destruction of forests are one reason we have landslides.
However, the article goes on to say how local people in the Philippines and locals in West Virginia are opposing logging/strip mines/resorts.
Fine. But you know, when I worked in Appalachia (in Pennsylvania) the result of closing the coal mines was not pristine nature, but depopulation as people had to move elsewhere to find jobs.
