Posted on 05/15/2015 10:26:46 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Pope Francis endorsed the Catholic Climate Petition after meeting with a group of representatives of our Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM) in the Vatican.
Through the petition we are collecting signatures from Catholics all over the world to raise a strong voice demanding bold climate action. The petition signatures will be presented to world leaders in December 2015, when they will meet in the United Nations climate summit at Paris with the goal of signing a treaty to tackle climate change.
“Pope Francis was very supportive of the work we are doing to engage Catholics around the world in a coordinated response to climate change,” said Tomás Insua, a co-founder of the GCCM from Argentina. “Francis even joked that we were competing against his encyclical. His endorsement of our work is very important to raise awareness within Catholic circles globally, and to collect more signatures.”
Pope Francis asked the Pontifical Ceremonieri, Monsignor Guillermo Karcher, to sign the petition on his behalf as a way to show his endorsement (given that popes don’t sign petitions because of protocol).
The Pope also gave the GCCM the book “The Sun’s Energy in the Vatican” as a gift, to emphasize the Holy See’s commitment to renewable energy as a means to address the climate change crisis. All the pictures about the meeting are available here.
“The support of Pope Francis to the petition is very important as climate change is a great and urgent moral issue,” said Allen Ottaro, director of CYNESA based in Kenya and co-founder of GCCM. “Climate change hits the poorest first and hardest, and will leave an unnecessarily dire legacy for future generations. We Catholics need to step up against climate change and raise a strong voice asking political leaders to take action urgently.”
This endorsement from Pope Francis is extremely valuable as we start to actively promote the petition ahead of the United Nations climate change summit in Paris, responding to Pope Francis’ call last December: “On climate change there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.”
Pope Francis is ready for climate action. What about you? Sign the petition:
To world leaders:
Climate change affects everyone, but especially the poor and most vulnerable people. Impelled by our Catholic faith, we call on you to drastically cut carbon emissions to keep the global temperature rise below the dangerous threshold of 1.5°C, and to aid the world’s poorest in coping with climate change impacts.
The way to feed and clothe the world is to EXPAND FREEDOM, ENERGY PRODUCTION, and CAPITALISM!
It is the suppression of these 3 which oppresses the poor!
Whoever is telling Pope Francis that the world is running out of God’s resources is LYING TO HIM!
Same with the fraud touting man-made Global Warming to him!
He is no longer pope. He is an advocate for leftist causes.
The Pope shows once again that infallibility does not mean inerrancy. The treaty would be a disaster for the world’s poor stifling investment and advancement to cleaner than dung fuels. It is also a very thinly disguised promotion of population control including relaxing or doing away with abortion restrictions in developing countries.
The Pope is not showing discernment.
Catholics all over the world to raise a strong voice demanding bold climate action
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I don’t think so!
Pope Frankie is running hard for the office of False Prophet.
Pope Che.
If the Church is going to get political, then it’s time to Tax it.
Sorry Pope. Not this dope.
They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Frank is a wiener.
First my country, now my Church...both run by Marxists at the top.
The good news to me is that this pope clearly isn’t a tool of the devil. I would give Satan much more credit than this. This sort of thing is clearly idiotic to anyone with an IQ over room temperature.
It seems rather blasphemous to me to think that we have so much power over God’s creation so as to “destroy” it merely as a byproduct of our existence. We would have a hard time doing so even if we tried.
And your own froth for smearing his error is showing. A bib is in order, to dry your second chin.
Do you have any idea how much carbon is put into the atmosphere by an incense burner, Your Holiness?
we were spoiled by the last three Popes
the Church is being led in some very bad directions now
keep faith...
Last three Popes?
Didn’t JP the First die only a month or so into his Pontificate?
LOL!! I have to agree with you. :D
Another “bless your heart” moment for the pope. He seems to be a son and student of his South American neighborhood, with a shockingly narrow aptitude for communicating a shockingly narrow knowledge of deceitful ideologies proclaimed by world class power seekers, quite willing to use him as their puppet.
Pope Francis was used to the sometimes deadly thuggery of the communists in South America, but he seems not to recognize the insidious and subtle wiles of the Enemy in shaping the mind and flattering the ego. He is being flattered, I think.
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