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RUSH: Yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Cardinal… I\u2019m not even sure how to pronounce his name. I did not see the episode. We\u2019ll hear the sound bite in just a moment.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Wuerl. W-u-e-r-l. You know the Fox News people called us on Friday and asked to use a clip from this program from earlier in the week. I said, “Yeah, yeah. It\u2019s not the best clip, by the way. I mean, I said a lot of things later in the week that added to that, made it even better.” They said, “No, no! this is exactly what we want!” Okay. So I knew they already had their segment planned and they wanted to use a clip from me on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

And since it was Fox, I granted them permission to do so. It was the sound bite where I — in analyzing the papal encyclical — suggested that what it essentially was is a commandment to vote for the Democrat Party. So Chris Wallace played that sound bite for Cardinal Wuerl and asked him to reply to it. We have that coming up. Also the… Let\u2019s see, what else? Oh, I have learned, ladies and gentlemen, something I did not know.<\/p>\n

The pope actually has a climate advisor <\/a>working on his staff and he is a genuine lunatic. He\u2019s a German. What did I do with it? I just printed it out, here. I\u2019ll have to find it somewhere in one of these stacks here. But I really… When you look at some of the language that\u2019s being used in the papal encyclical on climate change, it really does come from the leftist political world, all of the phrases that the pope uses.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m really beginning to wonder if this whole thing wasn\u2019t put together by a committee that may have, essentially, just hijacked the Vatican by this. I mean, that\u2019s what the left does. They move in, they corrupt things. Just have to see.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Fox News Sunday yesterday, this is what I talked about in the previous half hour. They called, they wanted to use an excerpt from this program. They didn\u2019t tell me why. I mean, they didn\u2019t tell me who their guest was gonna be, said it didn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s Chris Wallace, it\u2019s Fox News Sunday, I\u2019ve had nothing but pleasant experiences with them, I trust them, so I said go ahead, use it. Here\u2019s the first bite.<\/p>\n

WALLACE: While the pope has bigger things on his mind than American politics, some American conservatives say he is choosing sides. Cardinal, forgive me, because this is gonna get a little salty.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Essentially what this papal encyclical is suggesting is that every Catholic should vote the Democrat Party. How in the hell else do you interpret it when the pope comes out and sounds like Algore on global warming and climate change?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so now the cardinal, whose name is Cardinal Wuerl, is asked to respond. Chris Wallace says, “I never thought I\u2019d ask you this, how do you respond to Rush Limbaugh?”<\/line><\/p>\n

WUERL: (whispering) Well, this is one of the great — one of the great blessings of America, isn\u2019t it? We\u2019re all allowed to speak our mind. Even if we don\u2019t have all the facts, even if we don\u2019t have a clear view of what the other person is saying, we\u2019re all allowed to speak our mind, and that\u2019s what he\u2019s doing. Ah, I think what the pope is doing is something very, very different from that. He\u2019s saying, “Why don\u2019t we all discuss this? Why don\u2019t we all come to the table, and before we start eliminating other people from the discussion — before denouncing them or even ridiculing them — why don\u2019t we listen to them and see what they\u2019re saying and see where we really ought to be going as a human family?”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I do not know Cardinal Wuerl. I don\u2019t know his diocese, it\u2019s not identified, I didn\u2019t bother looking it up. The Cardinal is attempting to do two things here. He\u2019s attempting to be polite and also to belittle me while being polite. Because I think the Cardinal — and he may not be aware, but many in the Catholic Church are profoundly aware of how strongly they are supported on this program and by me each and every time they come under cultural attack dating back to the early nineties and ACT UP storming into St. Patrick\u2019s cathedral and throwing condoms and so forth during Cardinal O\u2019Connor\u2019s mass.<\/p>\n

I was a guest of Cardinal O\u2019Connor\u2019s at his home on several occasions. My support for the Catholic Church during any number of things is well documented. The Cardinal here of course has to stand up for the pope. But here\u2019s the problem with this. That\u2019s not what the pope said. Now, I\u2019m gonna say this with all due respect, and I\u2019m gonna be as gracious as I possibly can to Cardinal Wuerl. But the pope, in his encyclical, does not say, “Why don\u2019t we all discuss this? Why don\u2019t we all come to the table and before we start eliminating other people from the discussion or denouncing them or ridiculing them, why don\u2019t we listen to them and see what they\u2019re saying.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not what the encyclical says. And, in fact, it\u2019s not what happened. At the same time Cardinal Wuerl was on Fox News Sunday claiming that while I was practicing my God-given right to say what I think, that it\u2019s wonderful even when people don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about, was this story. It had already been published the day before in the Washington Post:<\/p>\n

“How Climate-Change Doubters Lost a Papal Fight — Pope Francis was about to take a major step backing the science behind \u00c2\u00adhuman–driven global warming, and Philippe de Larminat was determined to change his mind. A French doubter who authored a book arguing that solar activity — not greenhouse gases — was driving global warming, de Larminat sought a spot at a climate summit in April sponsored by the Vatican\u2019s Pontifical Academy of Sciences.”<\/p>\n

In other words, the pope convened a meeting. Somebody who does not believe in manmade climate change because of greenhouse gases wanted to attend. He was denied his request. The Vatican\u2019s Pontifical Academy of Sciences was not interested in his point of view. “Nobel laureates would be there. So would UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, US economist Jeffrey Sachs and others calling for dramatic steps to curb carbon emissions.” There wasn\u2019t one doubter.<\/p>\n

“There wasn\u2019t one person there who disagreed with the consenus of the worldwide left on manmade climate change due to fossil fuel creation of greenhouse gases. But it gets better than that. “After securing a high-level meeting at the Vatican, he was told that, space permitting, he could join. He bought a plane ticket from Paris to Rome.” This is the Frenchman. “But five days before the April 28 summit [on global warming], de Larminat said, he received an e-mail saying there was no space left.<\/p>\n

“It came after other scientists — as well as the powerful Vatican bureaucrat in charge of the academy — insisted he had no business being there. ‘They did not want to hear an off note,\u2019 de Larminat said.” They didn\u2019t want to hear anybody that disagreed. Now, the papal encyclical does not “suggest that we, as a human community, sit down and discuss this.” The papal encyclical does not “welcome anybody and everybody” to the so-called table to discuss this. In fact, people who disagree or have an opposing point of view were uninvited, after having purchased plane tickets, were told not to show up.<\/p>\n

You were only permitted to attend the Vatican Pontifical Academy of Sciences meeting on man-made global warming in advance of the papal be encyclical if you read with what the pope was going to say. Now, listen again to Cardinal Wuerl, Cardinal Donald Wuerl. This is yesterday on Fox News Sunday (again, just to rehash) people that disagreed with this consensus of man-made global warming stemming) from fossil fuel fuels and carbon dioxide poisoning were not permitted.<\/p>\n

This Frenchman wanted to go, had his plane ticket purchased and was all set to go and was uninvited, as was everybody else who had an opposing view. Yet Cardinal Wuerl said this yesterday…<\/p>\n

WUERL: (whispering) Well, this is one of the great — one of the great blessings of America, isn\u2019t it? We\u2019re all allowed to speak our mind. Even if we don\u2019t have all the facts, even if we don\u2019t have a clear view of what the other person is saying, we\u2019re all allowed to speak our mind, and that\u2019s what he\u2019s doing. Ah, I think what the pope is doing is something very, very different from that. He\u2019s saying, “Why don\u2019t we all discuss this? Why don\u2019t we all come to the table, and before we start eliminating other people from the discussion — before denouncing them or even ridiculing them — why don\u2019t we listen to them and see what they\u2019re saying and see where we really ought to be going as a human family?”<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, there\u2019s further irony: That\u2019s all I was doing. I was simply expressing my opinion about what the papal encyclical is, and it could have been written by anybody in the upper levels of the Democrat Party or the American environmental movement. So here\u2019s Cardinal Wuerl saying, “No, no! The pope said we all need to sit down and talk about it.” Well, that\u2019s not what happened! They did not permit people that didn\u2019t agree with the pope\u2019s consensus on this.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I finally found it. The pope\u2019s chief scientific advisor… This according to the UK Independent, which has, by the way, a scathing story. The UK Independent today with a scathing story on two things that are linked, that are creating massive worldwide problems. One of them is the European Union, just the very idea that it was tried and what a disaster it is and how that\u2019s affecting Greece. The other problem that this man identifies — it\u2019s a writer at the UK Independent — is the “fantasy world” the pope is living in.<\/line><\/p>\n

His words, not mine. But it\u2019s in that story that the pope\u2019s science advisor is identified. I\u2019m just gonna read you the passage from the UK Independent. “How forlorn in light of all this looks that would-be well-meaning 300-page document in which the Pope, under the spell of his chief scientific adviser, a fanatical German climate activist called Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, calls for an end to use of the very fossil fuels which keep the Vatican\u2019s own lights on. In asking us to pray for that global climate treaty, Pope Francis solemnly trots out all those familiar plaints about ‘melting polar ice caps,'” which are not melting, “‘rising sea levels,'” which are not rising, “unprecedented droughts, ‘extreme weather events\u2019 and the rest of that greenie litany which has no basis in honest science whatever.”<\/p>\n

A “fanatical German climate activist.”<\/p>\n

Not even a scientist!<\/p>\n

I knew this was gonna happen sometime or another, so we may as well deal with it. Maggie in Shiloh, Illinois, I\u2019m glad you called. Great to have you on the program today. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. Hi.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. So I came on to say how I\u2019m a biiiiit, um, well, frustrated that you\u2019ve been bashing the pope almost every single week. Because love you! I love your show. I\u2019ve been listening to you for years, listening since I was a baby, and I really… I\u2019m a Catholic, and I really, really trust and respect the pope on all of his… Whatever he says. And I just really (giggles) am not appreciating how you\u2019re treating him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How I\u2019m treating him?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, how you\u2019re treating him. It\u2019s just that you\u2019re not respective. I\u2019m from — I\u2019m from… He\u2019s not Nancy Pelosi. He\u2019s not a politician. Sure, popes can be political and corrupt, but Pope Francis is not, not that we know of.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Maggie, you see (sigh), this is the dilemma.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh yeah?<\/p>\n

RUSH: The pope has crossed a line here and has now entered the realm of politics.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait, now, wait, now, wait.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I understand you, as a devout Catholic, the pope is infallible, and not to be questioned.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And me doing so is near heresy, and that\u2019s the trick, you see? We\u2019re all supposed to stand silent when the pope speaks because the pope is the Vicar of Christ, and there\u2019s nobody — nobody — who can criticize the pope for what he says. It\u2019s just not done. It\u2019s not acceptable. And here comes old Rush at the EIB Network. But the pope, to me, has entered the realm of politics with this portion of his encyclical on climate change, and I don\u2019t know what to do here, Maggie.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know what to do, because I fervently care about this, and I firmly believe the pope is wrong, and I don\u2019t believe that this is…<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Well, that\u2019s where I come in. (giggles) I really… It\u2019s not that we have to listen to the pope on everything. It\u2019s not that he is —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know that. I\u2019m interrupting \u2019cause I\u2019m out of time here. I know that it\u2019s not that. It\u2019s what isn\u2019t permitted or what isn\u2019t cool or what isn\u2019t acceptable is “criticizing” the pope. You don\u2019t have to listen to him, but I\u2019d better not say anything about him — or else.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So Cardinal Wuerl… By the way, he\u2019s the Washington diocese, Washington, DC. Cardinal Wuerl says that I don\u2019t understand Il Papa. I don\u2019t understand what the pope is saying. But America\u2019s a beautiful place because I am free to tell 20 million people what I don\u2019t know and what I don\u2019t understand and isn\u2019t it wonderful? But what the pope understands and what the pope is saying is that we should all get together and have a conversation among “the human community.”<\/p>\n

We should all learn together, discuss ideas together, and see what each other thinks. Well, fine and dandy, but the pope didn\u2019t say that. And, furthermore, “How Climate-Change Doubters Lost a Papal Fight,” says that some people who disagreed with what the encyclical was gonna say asked to attend the Vatican\u2019s Pontifical Academy of Sciences meeting on all this and were denied admission. After being told they could show up, they were actually disinvited!<\/p>\n

They were told they could show up, bought their plane tickets from France, and got an e-mail, “Sorry, sorry! Turns out there\u2019s not enough room for you here.” But no, I\u2019m between a rock and a hard place here \u2019cause Cardinal Wuerl, obviously a respected cardinal in Washington, DC, and he\u2019s out there saying (summarized), “The pope said let\u2019s all sit together. This is what Limbaugh doesn\u2019t understand! The pope is saying that we should discuss this, come to the table before we started eliminating other people from this discussion.”<\/p>\n

When did I do that? I didn\u2019t eliminate anybody. They did! I\u2019m not eliminating anybody from any discussion! All I\u2019m saying is that the pope sounds like a Marxist sometimes when he starts talking economics. Well, I did. There\u2019s no reason to hide that. I\u2019m saying here that the pope has entered the realm of politics here when he starts spewing the exact stuff you hear from Algore, which means the purpose of this encyclical could mean it\u2019s a sign to Catholics to vote Democrat.<\/p>\n

But this is not all, ladies and gentlemen.<\/p>\n

Reuters is absolutely giddy with this story.<\/p>\n

“The Pope Says Weapons Manufacturers Cannot Call Themselves Christian.”<\/p>\n

By the way, for Cardinal Wuerl and everyone else, I am one of the few who have pointed out what the pope said in his entirety in this encyclical. The rest of the media\u2019s not reporting what the pope said about abortion and environmentalism. The pope said in this encyclical that if you\u2019re gonna be devoted to God\u2019s creation, it better include the human embryo. You can\u2019t be out there be anti-coal and anti-oil to protect Mother Earth and not be of the same mind of every living creature, including the baby in the womb.<\/p>\n

And, of course, I point this out.<\/p>\n

Nobody else does in the Drive-By Media. They\u2019re leaving that alone. I think I was more inclusive than 99% of the people reporting on this, but now here\u2019s Reuters. They\u2019re just excited as they can be, \u2019cause “The Pope Says Weapons Manufacturers Cannot Call Themselves Christian.” Now, wait. This gets even better. “People who manufacture weapons or invest in weapons industries are hypocrites if they call themselves Christian, Pope Francis said on Sunday.” This is not in the encyclical. This is just something he said yesterday.<\/p>\n

“Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry at a rally of thousands of young people at the end of the first day of his trip to the Italian city of Turin. … ‘It makes me think of … people, managers, businessmen who call themselves Christian and they manufacture weapons. That leads to a bit a distrust, doesn\u2019t it?\u2019 he said to applause. He also criticized those who invest in weapons industries, saying ‘duplicity is the currency of today … they say one thing and do another.'”<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m sorry, folks. (laughing)<\/p>\n

You know, these are political comments, and I have to say something here. If it is unchristian… If you can\u2019t call yourself a Christian if you manufacture weapons or ammo or invest in companies that do, then is Nancy Pelosi still a Catholic if she supports abortion, which the pope just condemned in his encyclical? Is that not a reasonable question to ask, Mr. Snerdley? (interruption) Yeah, except Snerdley does… He says, “You\u2019re fine. You can handle this, Rush. You don\u2019t need me on this.” (interruption)<\/p>\n

The Swiss Guard has weapons. But wait! Wait. Wait. Yes, of course the Swiss Guard has weapons. But hang on. There\u2019s something even… I don\u2019t know about “better,” but there\u2019s something even more poignant than pointing that out. But literally that: If weapons manufacturers… This is the pope saying this! If weapons manufacturers cannot call themselves Christians, and people who invest in weapons manufacturing companies or ammo-manufacturing can\u2019t call themselves Christians, how can pro-choice people call themselves Christians?<\/line><\/p>\n

I think this is a slippery slope. Now, admittedly, I\u2019m not a Northeast moderate Republican or liberal, and I may not understand the nuance of this. I may be such a simpleton, I may be well-intentioned, but I may not have the slightest idea what I\u2019m talking about. But isn\u2019t it wonderful that we live in a country where somebody like me — a grand doofus of all times — can say whatever he thinks to countless millions of people? Isn\u2019t it a beautiful thing, my friends! What a great, great country we have here, isn\u2019t it?”<\/p>\n

Right.<\/p>\n

The Pope “spoke of the ‘tragedy of the Shoah,\u2019 using the Hebrew term for the Holocaust.” Now, listen. This is the same speech. The pope has just said that “Weapons Manufacturers Cannot Call Themselves Christian.” Here\u2019s the quote again: “‘It makes me think of … people, managers, businessmen who call themselves Christian and they manufacture weapons. That leads to a bit a distrust, doesn\u2019t it?\u2019 he said to applause. He also criticized those who invest in weapons industries, saying ‘duplicity is the currency of today … they say one thing and do another.'”<\/p>\n

“He spoke of the ‘tragedy of the Shoah,\u2019 using the Hebrew term for the Holocaust. ‘The great powers had the pictures of the railway lines that brought the trains to the concentration camps like Auschwitz to kill Jews, Christians, homosexuals, everybody. Why didn\u2019t they bomb (the railway lines)?'” What? That would have been un-Christian! He just said… Look, I didn\u2019t say any of this, and Reuters has published it!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just reading it to you, so don\u2019t get in my chili. I\u2019m just reading to you what Reuters says here. “The Pope Says Weapons Manufacturers Cannot Call Themselves Christian.” I realize this is a “no-win” to be in here. I cannot win. There\u2019s no win here. But I don\u2019t know how else to deal with this, because institution after institution after institution across our country and across the world is being corrupted.<\/p>\n

If weapons manufacturers and ammo manufacturers can\u2019t call themselves Christian, then why are you suggesting that those same people should have bombed the railway lines leading to Auschwitz and the other concentration camps? The pope decries weapons and then wonders why the concentration camp railway lines and the camps themselves (we had a picture there) weren\u2019t bombed, which would have killed everybody. Ahem. So…<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Adam in Oklahoma City. Glad you called, sir. You\u2019re up, and great to have you here. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush, for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Honor to speak to you. I\u2019m calling in response to Maggie earlier who was talking about how you were not treating the pope correctly or her concerned over that, and I was pretty frustrated by the comment. I\u2019m a cradle Catholic, and I\u2019m also in the oil and gas business, and I read the article about the gentlemen not being invited to — or not being loud to participate in the encyclical, and I was pretty frustrated by it. You know, I wanted to point out two things.<\/p>\n

First, I think it\u2019s important that you\u2019re bringing up these issues that are straddling the line between politics and religion. Because this isn\u2019t the first time and won\u2019t be the last that the church gets involved in politics and economic issues, and they\u2019ve been wrong in the past. And I also wanted to point out that the comment on infallibility, if you look into it a little bit more, the church\u2019s position on infallibility is on matters necessary for salvation. It\u2019s not on everything that the pope says.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, that\u2019s true. You\u2019re right about that. I did err in making — but I think to the extent the person I was talking to, she probably agreed with what I said. I think there are many people that whatever the pope says whenever, you better do it, abide by it, or else.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I just would encourage people to research their faith if they\u2019re getting into issues like this, for me personally that I\u2019m disagreeing with some of the things that are coming out or disagreeing with the approach, and, you know, you just have to research it and not necessarily just accept everything at face value.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me step in it again here. In defending the Catholic Church against every assault that you can recall over the last 27 years, and I have done so, in defending the Catholic Church I have always told people, warned people, reminded people, whatever, that it\u2019s not any church\u2019s job to bend and shape to public opinion. That\u2019s not what religion is. Not the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

Religion has grown to encompass so many things that that blanket statement probably isn\u2019t — a lot of religions bend and flake and form and shape to public opinion for a host of reasons, but the Catholic Church and Judaism do not. It is what it is. And if you don\u2019t subscribe, if you don\u2019t believe, that\u2019s fine, you don\u2019t have to come. But the one thing the church has never done — I can\u2019t say never, but it\u2019s been really good in this regard — is standing for what it stands for, being a beacon of light and goodness, salvation, decency, all of those things, being what it is. The route to God. The Word of God.<\/p>\n

The moment a religious organization begins to dilute and water down its genuine theological beliefs to accommodate public opinion, to either deflect criticism or to obtain more membership or what have you, or, dare I say even more tithing, more donations, then it is betraying itself. And I\u2019ve always admired the Church, the Catholic Church — I\u2019m not a Catholic, but I\u2019ve always admired the Catholic Church for not bending this way. It\u2019s been an institution you could rely on. Of course, if you go to Georgetown University, a Catholic school, you see examples opposite of what I\u2019m talking about. So it\u2019s not cut-and-dried, but it used to be.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I doubt there have been any pundits who have defended the Catholic Church more consistently than I have over the last 30 years. In fact, the American left is now embracing the pope. The American left have been the serial attackers of the Catholic Church. And yet it is I, Rush Limbaugh, who is a wonderful human being but celebrating the right to be massively wrong. Isn\u2019t it wonderful to live in America where this can be possible?<\/p>\n

This is Jim in Toronto, Canada. It\u2019s great to have you, sir, and welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a great honor, Rush! Yeah, I just want to mention that if the pope is gonna talk about “unfettered capitalism,” he should start August unfettered socialism and liberalism, because if you go back and read one of the great encyclicals by Pope Leo XIII. It\u2019s Rerum Novarum. Just to be fair, Pope Leo wrote about businessman should start… I\u2019ll do it in a nutshell, there\u2019s a lot of articles, the businessmen of the time should be fair to the workers because the socialists are beating down the doors to exploit the workers and also to take private property away.<\/p>\n

Does this sound familiar what\u2019s going on? As we know — and you\u2019ve talked about it for years, Rush, and educated your listeners — the die hard socialists, the left, are against private property. I know a lot of people say, “Oh, no, they\u2019re not,” but they are. The environmentalists, the EPA, how they attack property owners, you see all the rules and regulations. Now, if you\u2019re going to push — and they\u2019re all-in on this man-made global warming. So you come to two conclusions.<\/p>\n

Either the pope is the most uninformed pope we\u2019ve ever had or he\u2019s part of the left. And you might have conclude to the second because he\u2019s the first pope in a thousand years from out of Europe. He was in Argentina, and we know what Argentina was like in the seventies. You disappeared in the middle of the night for just having an opinion. So, you know, I don\u2019t know… I\u2019m a Roman Catholic, and I find it hard. I never found myself disagreeing with Pope Benedict XVI.<\/p>\n

But I find myself constantly trying to stick up for this pope because we hear the context. Rerum Novarum is not like pro-capitalist, but it talks about fairness to workers, fairness to the people. It also talks about — and they take it out of the scriptures — that man has a right to private property before the state. You can look this up. And then there\u2019s another encyclical by Pope Pius XI in the Twentieth Century. I\u2019m no expert. I\u2019m just sort of generalizing. I\u2019ll tell you one thing. If you want to conclude, the Catholic Church is —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me just jump in here, because I am not — and I\u2019m not pretending to be — a Catholic. I have been invited by monsignors and priests while inside St. Patrick\u2019s on other business. I\u2019ve gotten to know several. As I say, I was invited to breakfast with Cardinal O\u2019Connor and his staff, and I\u2019ve had several priests suggest that Catholicism would be natural for me, based on their awareness of what I\u2019m saying. And they\u2019ve all done so, by the way, on the basis of saving my soul.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how I have been approached, and it was not oppressive. It was friendly, don\u2019t misunderstand. My point is, I\u2019m not an expert on the Catholic Church and I\u2019m not trying to be here, and I\u2019m not in any way, shape, manner, or form a Catholic. But what I am an expert on is freedom, and I recognize efforts to infringe upon it. I am in the free speech business. So I am acutely aware of any and all efforts to infringe on free speech, and they\u2019re all over the place.<\/p>\n

As such, I am acutely aware of every other assault on individual liberty and freedom. And believe me, that\u2019s what every leftist issue ultimately aims at is individual liberty and freedom. And then self-reliance. And then rugged individualism. All of this constitutes a threat to leftists and the modern-day Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Heather in Blacksburg, Virginia, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you so much for all you do. You truly are the only voice of sanity that we\u2019re hearing these days.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, sometimes I wonder.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a theory myself and it has to do with all this talk on global warming, not only from the pope, but do you remember a while back when Obama made the comment when ISIS was particularly active and Obama made the comment that the biggest threat to our world was global warming and not ISIS.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: And you just had to scratch your head, you know, what in the world. Well, my theory is that all this talk on global warming is just setting the stage for who the next presidential Democratic nominee is gonna be, as well as who they hope to be president, and I think that\u2019s Algore. I don\u2019t think Hillary has a heck of a chance of winning the nomination. I think just as Obama came out of nowhere and pushed her aside, the same thing is gonna happen with Algore. And all this talk of global warming, and that\u2019s the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me politely offer an alternative. A, I don\u2019t think Algore would in any way take the pay cut. Algore is too busy getting rich off of this hoax, and he\u2019s living the life right now. Global warming is also much more than just a plan to elect Democrats. It clearly is that. There\u2019s no question. But it is far more oppressive than that. It is far more dangerous than that. The things that are wrapped up in climate change as an issue, virtually every objective the worldwide left has for global government, the elimination of the US Constitution, the whole notion of individual liberty and private property, global warming, climate, whatever you call it, has every mechanism to eliminate everything liberals oppose. And that\u2019s why they\u2019re trying to encompass it with science and get the pope involved giving it automatic authority, \u2019cause it can\u2019t stand on its own in science.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: Okay here is Robert in Ave Maria, Florida, glad you waited, sir. You\u2019re up next on the Rush Limbaugh program.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. Dittos, Rush. I\u2019m calling from a new Catholic university town with a huge church in the center of town. All my neighbors and friends, this is really on our minds, this encyclical, and I wanted to talk about paragraph 188.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Go ahead.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right. By the way, Robert Bork was my law professor while he was converting to the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, wow. Wow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He\u2019d probably encourage you to listen to those monsignors that are approaching you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know that I ever told him about that. But he probably would have if I had mentioned it to him, no doubt.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ll get to my point. I\u2019m sorry, Rush. By the way, I\u2019m a Supreme Court justice trapped in a small town lawyer\u2019s body. I just want everybody to know that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Paragraph 188 says the church does not presume to settle scientific questions or to replace politics, but I am concerned to encourage an honest and open debate so that particular interests or theologies will not prejudice the common good. Paragraph 188 of the encyclical.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sorry, but that is not what that encyclical does or is. I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know, I know, that\u2019s my point is I\u2019m very frustrated. I love Pope Francis and I\u2019ll follow him, but that doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m afraid to challenge him when he says something that is hard to make sense of. And it\u2019s not that it\u2019s challenging, I\u2019m happy to be challenged as a Catholic. But this doesn\u2019t make sense because what he then goes on to do is he partners up, you know, the multibillion-dollar climate science industry and, you know, uses only their ideological, you know, and particular —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re right. It is paragraph 188 that Cardinal Wuerl was referring to in his appearance on Fox News Sunday where he said the pope wants everyone to sit down at the table and as a human family, discuss the issue, which is not what he, meaning I, is saying. The pope wants everyone — no, the pope did not permit — well, the Vatican did not permit people that didn\u2019t agree with what they were gonna say to even show up and participate.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I love Cardinal Wuerl, too. I don\u2019t think that the pope has been fair to us, because he seems to violate paragraph 188 —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, this is where you gotta be —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — global warming theory and endorsing the UN treaty as a specific political —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, but something happened, something real explains it. I don\u2019t want to go any further, but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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