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Vatican Calls Greta Thunberg ‘Great Witness’ of Church’s Environmental Teaching
Crux ^ | 12/12/19 | Elise Harris

Posted on 12/13/2019 6:51:17 PM PST by marshmallow

ROME - On Thursday top Vatican officials hailed Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, recently named TIME Magazine’s “Person of the Year” for her environmental advocacy, as a “great witness” of Church teaching on care for creation and the human person.

Speaking to reporters at the Dec. 12 publication of Pope Francis’s message for the 2020 World Day of Peace, celebrated on Jan. 1 each year, Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Vatican office for Integral Human Development, called Thunberg “a great witness to what the Church teaches on the care of the environment and the care of the person.”

“What is her objective? Skipping school for a future, a future that can’t be guaranteed because there is no care for the environment,” he said, adding that in many cases, there is a complete lack of coherence between the international policies on the environment and what children are told.

Asked whether she was a model of the “ecological conversion” Francis calls for in the message, Turkson said that “model” was not the right word, but insisted that her activism brings attention to the Church’s insistence that “attention to the poor and society also coincide with care for the environment, the common home.”

“It’s a coherence with the Church’s teaching,” he said, adding that care of the environment is also a matter of faith.

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To: marshmallow

Sounds like the pope is worshiping the creation instead of the Creator.


41 posted on 12/13/2019 9:18:02 PM PST by robel
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To: Czech_Occidentalist

This pope is rewriting everything as he goes along so making this teenybopper into a saint while shes still alive would be easy...and the required 3 miracles would be discarded of course...Although one could be that its a miracle this idiot is still alive...


42 posted on 12/13/2019 9:20:45 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: TigersEye

LOL


43 posted on 12/13/2019 9:24:34 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: Hattie

Same as it ever was. Keeping things on an even keel is a constant struggle.


44 posted on 12/13/2019 9:25:26 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: marshmallow

RICO. in action. Francis is allowed to be there by Catholics. Nuff sed


45 posted on 12/13/2019 9:26:33 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: dp0622

Toss the kid a bone! The way she snarls she’ll hang on to it.


46 posted on 12/13/2019 9:35:18 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: marshmallow

Oh the canonization process is getting an early start.


47 posted on 12/13/2019 9:35:46 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Czech_Occidentalist

All that believe in Christ our our Lord are saints.


48 posted on 12/13/2019 9:51:45 PM PST by MAAG (For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Agree. The Catholic Church of my ill begotten youth is dead.


49 posted on 12/13/2019 9:55:56 PM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: Tennessee Nana
If you drink from her chalice it will be said of you, “He didn’t choose wisely”

How dare you! Who are you to assume their gender? /S
50 posted on 12/13/2019 10:04:35 PM PST by Tailback
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To: marshmallow

Oh yeah right. Because Greta is such a solid catholic


51 posted on 12/13/2019 10:09:34 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

You and me both.


52 posted on 12/13/2019 10:13:57 PM PST by Trump_Triumphant
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To: TigersEye

lol


53 posted on 12/13/2019 10:15:49 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: dp0622

Pope a dope. Stoopid cardinals.


54 posted on 12/13/2019 10:34:54 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: marshmallow

All kinds of weird pronouncements have come from The Vatican over the centuries.


55 posted on 12/13/2019 10:48:43 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: marshmallow

Christian values will continue, but the Catholic Church is on the rocks.


56 posted on 12/13/2019 11:21:59 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: marshmallow

#ClimateHoax is the #GatewayToCommunism


57 posted on 12/14/2019 2:24:02 AM PST by Lopeover (Patriots Fight)
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To: marshmallow

Creation is nothing but an impermanent arrangement of dust.


58 posted on 12/14/2019 3:52:52 AM PST by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitc)
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To: marshmallow

I keep hearing something about a millstone in my head...

“It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.”

If aiding and abetting this poor girl ain’t relevant, I don’t know what is.


59 posted on 12/14/2019 4:21:29 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Bobalu

Poor,
Demented
Child.


60 posted on 12/14/2019 5:03:51 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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