Posted on 04/28/2015 12:54:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Since his first homily in 2013, Pope Francis has preached about the need to protect the earth and all of creation as part of a broad message on the environment. It has caused little controversy so far.
But now, as Francis prepares to deliver what is likely to be a highly influential encyclical this summer on environmental degradation and the effects of human-caused climate change on the poor, he is alarming some conservatives in the United States who are loath to see the Catholic Church reposition itself as a mighty voice in a cause they do not believe in.
As part of the effort for the encyclical, top Vatican officials will hold a summit meeting Tuesday to build momentum for a campaign by Francis to urge world leaders to enact a sweeping United Nations climate change accord in Paris in December. The accord would for the first time commit every nation to enact tough new laws to cut the emissions that cause global warming.
The Vatican summit meeting will focus on the links between poverty, economic development and climate change, with speeches and panel discussions by climate scientists and religious leaders, and economists like Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia. The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, who is leading efforts to forge the Paris accord, will deliver the opening address.
Vatican officials, who have spent more than a year helping Francis prepare his message, have convened several meetings already on the topic. Last month, they met with the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy.
In the United States, the encyclical will be accompanied by a 12-week campaign, now being prepared with the participation of some Catholic bishops, to raise the issue of climate change and environmental stewardship in sermons, homilies, news media interviews and letters
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Good to see he’s finally doing something worthwhile. Does he have any pull with Who directs the weather?
Will be interesting to see the Slimes pull of this fence-straddling act. Praising the Pope when he speaks out on global warming, while slamming him upside the head when he speaks on abortion.
Ol’e Pope isn’t going to like it too much when American Catholics stop filling the collection basket on Sunday — We can demonstrate our displeasure through our charitable donations, dontchaknow.
Tell me again how the Catholics came to select a Communist Pope?
We can demonstrate our displeasure through our charitable donations, dontchaknow.
Maybe he can sell a candlestick or two to cover his utilities.
He could bring back indulgences, or carbon credits...
Install CFL lightbulbs and take 10,000 years off your time in purgatory?
I had hoped the Catholic Church would turn around under Benedict. Not the case with Francis. Now my parents understand why I went SBC.
lol WTH does the environment have to do with saving our souls. To the point where others suffer because of our actions it would be wrong, but technology has fed more people than ever, freed more people than ever and I don’t see EVER how the negatives could outweigh the positives, if the negatives even exist!!
Lord have mercy.
“Francis the talking mule,” come to mind AGAIN.
With all due respect to the Pope, he needs to consider Genesis 8:22. In that verse, God promises that cold and heat, summer and winter will never cease as long as the earth endures.
Since the POPE is in to talking about subjects he hasn’t a clue about:
Hey Pope Francis. Will Chip Kelly work out a deal for Marcus Mariotta?
None whatsoever.
He has been a disappointment ever sense he been appointed and he is only a man
Not surprising. Even more predictable once the encyclical goes out: the arrival of the usual ring-kissers to announce he’s being “mistranslated.”
The money people put in the basket on Sunday doesn’t go to Rome.
If he proceeds according to his usual pattern, he will put on a great show of “openness” and “humility,” and will freeze out anybody he doesn’t already agree with, and will issue a stupid, stupid, stupid encyclical on “climate change.” He will be a laughingstock, and he will be remembered until the end of time as one of stupidest popes of all time.
Pope Che is at it again.
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