Posted on 12/31/2014 6:26:34 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The pontiff plans to issue a rare and controversial plea for Catholics to consider the environment. Recent polls show his message just might resonate.
Pope Francis has ambitious environmental plans for 2015. Come March, he will deliver a 50 to 60-page edict urging his 1.2 billion Catholic followers to take action against climate change. The Pontiff will make his announcement during his visit to the Philippian city of Tacloban, which was ravaged by typhoon Haiyan, which killed thousands in 2013.
But within his global congregation, many conservative Catholics are expected to oppose the pope’s environmental views.
The message comes months in advance of the next United Nations climate meeting, which is slated to begin November 2015 in Paris. The pope’s lead scientific adviser Bishop Marcelo Sorondo, said that the pope’s message to his bishops, called an encyclical, is supposed to influence world leaders as they make their final recommendations after 20 years of negotiating how to reduce global carbon emissions, The Guardian reported. “The idea is to convene a meeting with leaders of the main religions to make all people aware of the state of our climate,” Sorondo said to Cafod, the Catholic development agency, of the pope’s plans....
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Nothing and furthermore he has not even written the letter yet, so who cares?
He can recognize the enviro-whacko movement will NEVER do anything to reduce poverty.
They promote a long list of evils that are contrary to Christianity:
Population Control,
Economic Oppression,
Propping up dictators who steal from the needy,
Crushing the energy development necessary to grow cultures out of poverty.
etc...
Did I mention THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING!!!
He’s an Argentine Socialist.
End of story.
A socialist, and therefore he’s got his soteriology all wrong. Yes, he’s the pope, but he’s wrong.
We are not collectively saved through our advocacy to save the erf from the evils of capitalism.
Didn't St. Paul admonish us to fight climate change in his letter to the Taclobanians?
How I miss the Polish Pope.
He had seen enough of Socialism...
I think The Pope should Pray for Guidance to the Lord, Everyday, Everyday, Everyday, He just might be getting in over his Head.
May God enlighten his mind and thinking.
Start with all that incense burning...
Well, He DID provide us guidance in the form of His Word.
It’s not like it’s a secret or anything.
Bingo! If he is not careful, he is going to end up being a voice for oppression and poverty through spreading the anthropogenic global warming fraud and forced redistribution schemes.
If the pope really wants to save the world he needs to concentrate on spreading the unfiltered, unadulterated Gospel. I don’t suppose he really understands that.
>> They promote a long list of evils that are contrary to Christianity <<
You forgot the following, which may be the most damning of all their characteristics:
The “Environmentalists” are basically a cult of nature worshippers, whereas Judaism and Christianity have always (until now?) taught that God has given man a status superior to the animals and the rest of “nature.”
Looked at another way, their worship of “nature” and “Gaia” puts the Environmentalists in the same category as the Wiccans, animists and assorted other pagans.
Hahaha. ..thanks for the laugh
Sounds like he has picked up on that Fatwa thing ....just make something up and then issue a “religious edict” requiring all the peasants to act....works for the heathens.
Francis Appears to Be Death Warmed Over.
NOTHING!
Pope Urban VIII also assaulted the Scientific Method when condemning Galileo in 1615. I will say, however, his errors were quickly revised when Pope John Paul II reversed this condemnation in 1992. Maybe Pope Francis will be so lucky.
For the Pope to engage in this kind of activism is akin to him becoming a shaman doing a rain dance to try changing the weather…
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