Posted on 06/03/2018 10:21:02 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Pope Francis will meet with some of the world’s oil executives next week, likely to give them another moral nudge to clean up their act on global warming.
Climate change policy and science experts are cautiously hopeful but aren’t expecting any miracles or even noticeable changes.
The conference will be a follow-up to the pope’s encyclical three years ago calling on people to save the planet from climate change and other environmental ills, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke confirmed Friday. Cardinal Peter Turkson, who spearheaded the encyclical, set up the June 8-9 conference with the executives. The pope himself will speak to the leaders on the second day of the summit, organized with the University of Notre Dame, Burke said.
Officials at the Vatican and Notre Dame would not disclose who is coming. BP, however, confirmed that its CEO Robert Dudley plans to attend, and Exxon Mobil said CEO Darren Woods would be there. Woods said this week that his company is trying to balance the risks of climate change with growing demand for energy to raise living standards in the developing world.
Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University, said he doubts anything “measurable” will come out of the conference but he was nevertheless hopeful. …
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NO.
Pope summons?
Who does he think he is? Obama?
Pope frank is not really in a position to “summon” anybody. Oil company executives dont work for him. As a lay Catholic i say ESAD Imposter pope.
I hope they will all be too busy to show up for it.
The pope is a “climate change” expert. He saw all of the “Ice Age” cartoon movies.
I heard a devout Catholic on Mark Levin the other night saying he was bound to be obedient to Francis regardless his personal political conviction
Is that normal for devoted Catholics?
His exact words were that he disagrees with Francis but if Francis told him to be quiet he would...
It was duty to the pope.
Any oil executive who travels to Europe to meet with the communist nutjob Francis is an idiot and a fool.
Send an assistant vice president of facilities.
“Pope Francis will meet with some of the world’s oil executives next week.” He has nothing to say to oil execs, since he is a high school teacher with the duty to protect kids from predators.
Obedience to the Pope belongs to reasonable didactic teachings from the Magisterium are announced by the Pope.
Old canon, the pope is infallible
>> I heard a devout Catholic on Mark Levin... Is that normal
That depends on whether or not you’re a devout Levin listener.
The Fake news media is at it again. No modern pope has ever summoned anyone to the Vatican. That ended more than a few hundreds of years ago.
The idiot MSM is simply giving us their ignorant inferences of what has happened.
I am a lifelong Catholic, but I am certain that no oil executive would be disposed to "be summoned" anywhere. Specially not the current mistake.
Doesn’t sound like it. The article said many are going like Exxon and BP. I wish the pope would keep to Wednesday audiences and Sunday mass.
Absolutely not!
Not even when speaking ex cathedra if it is in conflict with traditions and teachings of the last couple thousand years or so. Everyone is aware of who the historical "bad popes" are.
Devout, sincere Catholics live their faith, the don't have to "go all muslim" about it...
Not about everything, only in matters of Faith and Morals. Obedience plays no role in those.
Wannabe tyrants who claim to speak for God should be summarily ignored.
It is a phenomenon but not widespread. There are enough Francis Skeptics to make some powerful people in the Hierarchy worry about a formal Schism. Francis is truly something new in the Church. There have been some bad, even evil, popes in the past but they were all politicians striving for secular conquest and did not mess with the Magisterium, using their positions as secular power centers. A pope can be wrong and if he tries to change Doctrine i.e. “mess with the Magisterium” he is prima facie wrong and not a true Pope. There are a basketful of anomalies with this pope including the fact that there are actually two Popes and it is likely to be recognized at a future time that Francis was an AntiPope.
Catholic shake down or oil money?
Many terrorist communist racketeering charges should be leveled
#2 The Pope can pronounce on theological issues WHEN he is cathedra i.e. specifically preaching on dogma as a tenet of faith. This is extremely rare
#3 on other issues like climate change, recycling, break-dancing etc. the Pope is free to talk as an individual on what he thinks - just as everyone is free to disagree with him as an individual. his personal opinion on climate has no impact, no authority on any Catholic, so to wardaddy - that devout Catholic is talking about Francis' theological statements - if he makes any. Those are different (thornier questions). Pope Francis' opinion on climate is not for the devout Catholic to do anything more than listen to, if he wants
#4 That being said, the Pope is both influential and people listen to his personal opinions. If Bergoglio the individual, thinks strongly abotu climate change, then he will influence people - Catholics and non-Catholics. This is akin to Pope JP II's opinion against communism -- his influence definitely helped change things.
There will be no schism over a Pope’s personal opinion on climate change. May be if he tried to change dogma (which he hasn’t, officially done so in any way), then there would be an issue. But, if Pope Francis wants to call in Razor blade manufacturers about selling cheaper blades, that’s his personal call, nothing “Catholic religiony” about it.
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