In stating that he is a climate change skeptic, is Cardinal Pell exercising the Primacy of Conscience in defiance of Papal Infallibility and the authority of Benedict XVI’s warning that climate change and abuse of the environment is against God’s will?
Or is he just indulging in a bit of the old secular relativism?
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Filed under: Religion, Cardinal Pell, Primacy of Conscience
the pope turning up saved pell from the sack this week,
[…] Slimpickens (2008-07-15) noted (nice pickup) that Pell is fighting another doctrinal issue: papal infallibility, given Ratzinger’s warnings on climate change. Or is Pell being pre-emptively infallible when the Opus Dei folk pick their third Paedifract Maximus in a row? […]
Oyster – maybe so. Of course, in the Vatican’s eyes, if he holds up well under pressure, he may be a step closer to a Vatican appointment. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not.