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Pope Francis Says Pandemic Is ‘Nature’s Response’ to Human Inaction over Climate Change
Breitbart ^ | 04/09/20 | Thomas D Willilams

Posted on 04/09/2020 7:07:15 AM PDT by Enlightened1

ROME — Pope Francis said he believes the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is “certainly nature’s response” to humanity’s failure to address the “partial catastrophes” wrought by human-induced climate change.

Asked by British journalist Austen Ivereigh whether the COVID-19 crisis is an opportunity for an “ecological conversion,” the pontiff reasserted his belief that humanity has provoked nature by not responding adequately to the climate crisis.

“There is an expression in Spanish: ‘God always forgives, we forgive sometimes, but nature never forgives,’” Francis said in the interview published Wednesday. “We did not respond to the partial catastrophes. Who now speaks of the fires in Australia, or remembers that a year and a half ago a boat could cross the North Pole because the glaciers had all melted? Who speaks now of the floods?”

“I don’t know if it is nature’s revenge, but it is certainly nature’s response,” he added.

“Every crisis contains both danger and opportunity: the opportunity to move out from the danger,” he said. “Today I believe we have to slow down our rate of production and consumption and to learn to understand and contemplate the natural world.”

Late last month the pope expressed this same belief to a Spanish journalist, insisting that the coronavirus pandemic is nature’s cry for humans to take better care of creation.

Asked whether the COVID-19 pandemic is nature’s way of taking “revenge” on humanity, the pontiff suggested that nature is calling for attention.

“Fires, earthquakes … nature is throwing a tantrum so that we will take care of her,” he said.

Last December as well, the pope said that natural disasters such as a massive storm that struck northern Italy in the fall of 2018 are nature’s way of sounding an alarm to make us more environmentally engaged.

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1 posted on 04/09/2020 7:07:15 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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Worst. Pope. Ever.


2 posted on 04/09/2020 7:07:50 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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What is it with this guy?


3 posted on 04/09/2020 7:08:07 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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Pope Francis is a dumb-ass.


4 posted on 04/09/2020 7:08:37 AM PDT by Psalm 73
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What a f****** idiot!


5 posted on 04/09/2020 7:08:41 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will. I will.)
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To: Enlightened1

Our only hope is to pray to Pachamama.


6 posted on 04/09/2020 7:09:06 AM PDT by Antoninus (The press has lost the ability to persuade. They retain the ability to foment a panic.)
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that’s just too kooky


7 posted on 04/09/2020 7:09:18 AM PDT by avital2
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Pope Greta Speaks.


8 posted on 04/09/2020 7:09:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The Pope’s an idiot and a fear mongering jerk. He needs to focus on ridding his clergy of pedophiles rather than spew propaganda.


9 posted on 04/09/2020 7:09:36 AM PDT by Liberal Anti Venom (In a free society, the last refuge of a moron is tyranny. ~Jeremy Egerer~)
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To: Enlightened1

Of course he does.


10 posted on 04/09/2020 7:09:42 AM PDT by HIDEK6 ( God bless Donald Trump.)
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Worst.Pope.Ever.


11 posted on 04/09/2020 7:09:48 AM PDT by oil_dude
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If you do not worship Gaia, then Gaia strikes back at you.

He’s not a Christian.


12 posted on 04/09/2020 7:09:57 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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My wife just nailed him... He is a Pagan!


13 posted on 04/09/2020 7:11:20 AM PDT by 7thOF7th (Righteousness is our cause and justice will prevail!)
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DUMBEST.......

POPE.........

EVER.......


14 posted on 04/09/2020 7:11:22 AM PDT by hillarys cankles
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The Pope is a false teacher to be ignored.


15 posted on 04/09/2020 7:17:29 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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God told him so it must be true.


16 posted on 04/09/2020 7:17:32 AM PDT by Jayster (Legalize Marijuana)
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Should be renamed Pope Pagan.
“Mother Nature” as a sentient powerful force.

Huh. What happened to God, and His promises?


17 posted on 04/09/2020 7:18:14 AM PDT by BereanBrain
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Sedevacantism


18 posted on 04/09/2020 7:18:45 AM PDT by HangnJudge (China Lied, People died, Never Forget, this Decade's 9-11)
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Worst. Pope. Ever.

Not even close. Really really not even close. Maybe post 1940's? Certainly not in a historical sense of who's occupied St. Peter's Throne.

But it really is frustrating to see him abandon the tiller of the church.

19 posted on 04/09/2020 7:19:46 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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Stick to Catholic Doctrine Francis


20 posted on 04/09/2020 7:20:05 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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