[Mrs. Don-o]

"All human activities have to do with ethics, the Argentinean archbishop said, so they are already within the jurisdiction of the pope."

This is an incredibly sloppy statement and, on the plain grammatical reading of it, borders on the absurd.

If Abp Sorondo were in my RCIA class as a catechumen, I would not approve him to be received into the Catholic Church until he had cleared up in his mind the limits of papal "jurisdiction".

He simply does not understand enough about Catholicism.

And he would certainly not be allowed to teach!

[TigersEye]

He would have been lucky to get a D from my high school science teacher too. But that was back in the early ‘70s when science was still more about facts than feelings.

[Campion]

All human activities have to do with ethics, the Argentinean archbishop said, so they are already within the jurisdiction of the pope.

He's right insofar as we are discussing their ethical dimension. But whether or not human activity is warming the earth, and to what extent, is absolutely not an ethical question. It's a purely scientific one, and the church has no business picking sides there.

But, for the archbishop, swimming with the zeitgeist is a lot easier than actually teaching the hard truths of Catholicism, so there is that. /s