Lloyd, if you wouldn't mind and if the editor would allow it, I would like to respond on Padraing McCarthys thread "Laudato Si Condensed version of June 27.
The logic regarding Japan is that a subsequent lower rate of population growth would result in the next generation of teens targeting a still lower age group for abandonment.
In most poor countries th
John Paul IIi referred clearly to the two population problems, natality crisis in some northern hemisphere countries -- and yes, Japan is very concerned about this -- and overpopulation in some southe
Con, @ 5 do you think it's a good idea to clean up the planet? Under what scenario isn't it? How does cleaning up the planet not fall within the Church's competence especially after Benedict publish
Joe @3:
My apologies - it seems I was not clear in what I wrote. I have not denied that there is a population problem. Rather, we need to examine two population "problems" - the one commonly spoken of
Padraig, there is a group of young people in Japan led successively by an 18 year old and a 17 year old girl whose slogan is "why should we be spending money on people whose days are numbered?" -- I f
There are some confused bits of translation in the full English version of the Encyclical. For example, the quote from Romano Guardini's The End of the Modern World (1965) in paragraph 203. Perhaps so
In recent days we have been given very good reasons for not being quite so pessimistic and downhearted.
Six of our young people died tragically in Berkeley. Catholic priests and church authorities, bo
I read most of the encyclical, and I think an abridged version is a valuable service. Longwindedness is the bane of church documents ever since Gaudium et Spes.
Meanwhile the encyclical undercuts itse
My thinking on this issue is influenced by two factors in particular. First I’m not sure that Laudato Si will make any significant difference in the disposition of political forces, for the hard tr
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June 19 2015Lloyd, if you wouldn't mind and if the editor would allow it, I would like to respond on Padraing McCarthys thread "Laudato Si Condensed version of June 27.
‘Laudato Si’ – condensed version
June 27 2015The logic regarding Japan is that a subsequent lower rate of population growth would result in the next generation of teens targeting a still lower age group for abandonment. In most poor countries th
‘Laudato Si’ – condensed version
June 27 2015John Paul IIi referred clearly to the two population problems, natality crisis in some northern hemisphere countries -- and yes, Japan is very concerned about this -- and overpopulation in some southe
Caring for our common home
June 19 2015Con, @ 5 do you think it's a good idea to clean up the planet? Under what scenario isn't it? How does cleaning up the planet not fall within the Church's competence especially after Benedict publish
‘Laudato Si’ – condensed version
June 27 2015Joe @3: My apologies - it seems I was not clear in what I wrote. I have not denied that there is a population problem. Rather, we need to examine two population "problems" - the one commonly spoken of
‘Laudato Si’ – condensed version
June 27 2015Padraig, there is a group of young people in Japan led successively by an 18 year old and a 17 year old girl whose slogan is "why should we be spending money on people whose days are numbered?" -- I f
‘Laudato Si’ – condensed version
June 27 2015There are some confused bits of translation in the full English version of the Encyclical. For example, the quote from Romano Guardini's The End of the Modern World (1965) in paragraph 203. Perhaps so
The children of this age are more shrewd …
June 26 2015In recent days we have been given very good reasons for not being quite so pessimistic and downhearted. Six of our young people died tragically in Berkeley. Catholic priests and church authorities, bo
‘Laudato Si’ – condensed version
June 27 2015I read most of the encyclical, and I think an abridged version is a valuable service. Longwindedness is the bane of church documents ever since Gaudium et Spes. Meanwhile the encyclical undercuts itse
Caring for our common home
June 19 2015My thinking on this issue is influenced by two factors in particular. First I’m not sure that Laudato Si will make any significant difference in the disposition of political forces, for the hard tr
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