/lit/ - Literature

Laudato Si was pretty good, I'm looking forward to reading this encyclical, too.

>>15900262
Read Laudato Si, and realize that the only way forward from the wreck of the modern world has always been an embrace of Jesus Christ.

My favorite part of the whole terrorist attack was Pope Francis being cool with it:

https://time.com/3668875/pope-francis-charlie-hebdo/

>The Holy Father spoke to journalists in a broad interview on the papal flight to the Philippines about the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the controversy about the magazine’s new cover this week. Religious freedom and freedom of expression, he said, are fundamental human rights. But they are also not a total liberties. “There is a limit,” he said, speaking in Italian. “Every religion has its dignity. I cannot mock a religion that respects human life and the human person.”

>The Pope also condemned the Paris violence. “One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one’s own religion, that is, in the name of God,” Francis said. “To kill in the name of God is an aberration.”

>He broke it down in everyday terms, something that is coming to be known as classic Francis teaching style. “If [a close friend] says a swear word against my mother, he’s going to get a punch in the nose,” he explained. “One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people’s faith, one cannot make fun of faith.”

Read Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Si."

>>14732014
Did you see Francis' new exhortation after the Amazon Synod? It's actually /lit/ as fuck, it's got a ton of poetry quotes in it.

http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20200202_querida-amazonia.html

>everyone ITT bashing the Catholic Church

I fucking love it. Keep going, assholes, I'm rock hard. Everybody hates us because we're right and the rest of the Earth can't stand it.

>frames it as the right of people to have faith without it being mocked
>it also opens the door to the return of blasphemy laws in countries with Christian majorities

Based Holy Father, I remember when he said this. It still makes me smile to think about. One day there will be blasphemy laws again.

>there are people ITT who think you can't browse 4chan (or the internet in general) and be a committed Catholic

We're not all cloistered monks and nuns, you know. 4chan's perfectly safe if you avoid the porn boards, and if you've built up the self-discipline not to jerk off at every mildly arousing image you see. 4chan is fine. I've actually gotten lots of book recommendations on /lit/ that have been beneficial to the deepening of my faith.

Please remember to pray for the Holy Father, by the way.

OP, you should read Laudato Si, and realize that everyone in this thread is both right and wrong. We ARE living in an environmental catastrophe, on multiple fronts, including climate change and loss of wildlife. But we can neither succumb to despair nor continue on as we have been doing. The past 500 years are ultimately to blame for our ecological catastrophes. We need to move beyond Modernity, beyond the thought of Descartes, Bacon, Rousseau, and Voltaire, and to regain the wisdom of the Ancients and the Medievals, if we are to survive and repair our world.

Read Laudato Si, and then go pray the Rosary.

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>>13247253
>tfw Francis himself personally witnessed a Eucharistic miracle when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires

The lady is unironically correct. "Western Civilization" as a construct of a race, or a location, or a particularly instituted culture, does not exist, and its foundations, such as they are, are shoddy.

But "Christendom" exists. In fact, "Western Civilization" is just the PC version of "Christendom," so it's kind of sad that even the term "Western Civilization" has now become radioactive among the woke set. Western Culture, as we know it, IS Christian culture. It's mostly Catholic culture, though the Protestants have contributed here and there. It's the Christians who transferred Greek and Roman thought into the broader realm of Europe and the Americas. It's the Christians who contributed philosophy, poetry, and prose to the Western Canon. It's Christians who make up everything meaningful about The West. And without Christianity, Western Culture is not worth defending, since it's a big hollow robot without a soul.

Basically, Western Culture without Christianity is weak and feeble and deserves to die.

>>13194939
Pope Francis is a lot more trad than he comes across as being in the press, mostly because the press loves to manipulate his words to serve their anti-Catholic agenda.

Fuck, "Laudato Si" is extremely reactionary if you actually bother to read it.