Live blogging Laudato Si

The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change. The Creator does not abandon us; he never forsakes his loving plan or repents of having created us. Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home. Here I want to recognize, encourage and thank all those striving in countless ways to guarantee the protection of the home which we share. Particular appreciation is owed to those who tirelessly seek to resolve the tragic effects of environmental degradation on the lives of the world’s poorest. Young people demand change. They wonder how anyone can claim to be building a better future without thinking of the environmental crisis and the sufferings of the excluded.

Exactly.  One of the reasons the young are bailing on the Church is not, as we congratulate ourselves, that we present them with a challenging faith and they just aren’t as awesome as we Boomers are.  It’s that we present them with a faith that ignores much of the teaching of the Church in the service of Mammon and Mars and uses the victims of abortion as human shields to do it.  Laudato Si demands we return to a vision of creation as a whole weave.  It *really* demands something high and hard and young people are responding quite favorably to it while many of the Greatest Catholics of All Time (see Pewsitter) are spitting on it, while Limbaugh (in between mocking the homeless) is calling him a Communist and panicked Talk Radio thugs are calling him a servant of antichrist.