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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Speaking for no one but myself, I believe that he has failed miserably to teach the gospel. And while he has to have had plenty of Catholic education and experience, he strikes me as being ashamed of the Church, and seems to determined to transform it to something less spiritual. Perhaps he thinks he is being sly, but his lack of faith is obvious.
Oh my gosh. He’s atheistic.
Antipope
You’re far too generous in your assessment of pope Frank. He is an out-and-out subversive communist plant who is doing the bidding of the one worlder globalists. He does NOT believe in God.
“Never go Full Retard”
Our commie pope...
...this is part of our chastisement from God.
“Don’t forget your goat leggings!”
This is your pope.
This is your pope on dope.
Just say no.
Note to Pope:
Either sober up or shut up. You are a noisy nuisance.
This is a rare insight into the tangled mess of self-contradictions and non-sequiturs that is the Liberal Mind. He needs to retire to a quiet place and to shut up.
His God is Nature
And ever.
Very well said!
“He’s a friggin’ communist, that’s all.”
And one hell of a “One World” believer.
“He’s a friggin’ communist, that’s all.”
And one hell of a “One World” believer.
The commie pope doesn’t have the intellect that God gave a goat.
How the heck did the Catholic Church go from John Paul II to this guy in the space of eight years. There must be some Eminence Grise in the Roman Curia who orchestrated his election.
This guy is a communist/socialist first over all.
He is not a serious pope.
I tuned him out a long time ago.
Maybe the Pope should adjust his Pope hat seems that it is a little bit tight causing brain damage.
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