Posted on 03/15/2017 5:48:49 PM PDT by marshmallow
VATICAN, March 14, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The father of the population control movement, Paul Ehrlich, told a Vatican conference that he thinks Pope Francis is "the person in the world [who] has done more" than others to "initiate work" to fight climate change.
Ehrlich was a speaker at the Biological Extinction conference, sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Pro-life Catholics expressed concern over Ehrlich being invited to present. He holds many views contrary to the Catholic Church's teaching, including support for forced abortion and sterilization.
Ehrlich has made inflammatory statements about the hierarchy of the Catholic Church being a force of "evil." He has compared human babies to garbage, called opposition to contraception a "dangerous trend" of religious "endarkenment," and advocated for free contraception and abortions.
He has previously said Pope Francis is "dead wrong" for not promoting population control as a solution to environmental problems. Ehrlich also criticized Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si' for not endorsing population control. (A full list of the troubling things Ehrlich has said is available here. Other LifeSiteNews reporting on Ehrlich and his views can be read here and here.)
However, speaking at the Vatican on February 27, Ehrlich praised the current pontiff.
"I’m pleased to say that one of the best statements on the ethical issues [of environmentalism] came from Pope Francis. If I can quote from Laudato Si' … ‘Each year sees the disappearance of thousands of plant and animal species which we will never know, which our children will never see, because they have been lost forever. The great majority become extinct for reasons related to human activity. Because of us, thousands of species will no longer give glory to God by their very existence nor convey their.....
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That’s nice.
That’s not the pope’s job.
Hmmm...since when is Global Warming anything to do with Francis the talking poop???
I thought he was to lead the ‘flock’...guess he’s thinking he has sheep instead of humans...figures...
So the new Pope trusts man’s power over God.
This must be the end times.
Global Warming. Abortion. Homosexuality. Transgenderism.
It is all demonic. It is all blasphemy. It is a denial of the sovereignty of God.
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