Posted on 06/15/2015 3:20:26 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Ban Ki-moon arrived at the Vatican with his own college of cardinals. Mr. Ban, the United Nations secretary general, had brought the leaders of all his major agencies to see Pope Francis, a show of organizational muscle and respect for a meeting between two global institutions that had sometimes shared a bumpy past but now had a mutual interest.
The agenda was poverty, and Francis inveighed against the economy of exclusion as he addressed Mr. Bans delegation at the Apostolic Palace. But in an informal meeting with Mr. Ban and his advisers, Francis shifted the discussion to the environment and how environmental degradation weighed heaviest on the poor.
This is the pope of the poor, said Robert Orr, who attended the May 2014 meeting as Mr. Bans special adviser on climate change and described the informal conversation with Francis. The fact that he is making the link to the planet is really significant.
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Dear Pope...Don’t forget to remind the world that the sun revolves around the earth.
What do these "world leaders" suggest? If only we could go back to 1915 the poor would be sooo much better off?
Get a clue Francis!
A Pope is supposed to be the keeper of the faith, yet this one is far more interested in promoting socialist agendas.
I left the Catholic Church years ago. But if I was still in the RCC, I could not consider this Pope to be my spiritual leader. I can only imagine true Catholics are deeply embarrassed.
I fear he is laying the foundation for something much worse to come.
Pope strikes again.
Climate does not discriminate.
Humans do NOT impact the climate.
But he didn’t do that. He resigned. Quickly.
Catholics sure have their hands full with this one, don’t they?
There must be money in it.
The environmentalist agenda will keep most of the worlds poor in developing countries in poverty. It takes affordable energy to develop modern societies. Would the pope have us all go back to pre-industrial societies living in villages with horse powered agriculture? There is another ugly facet of the environmentalists...some want to limit population not only with birth control and mandatory sterilization, but with forced euthanasia and abortion.
Sad, sad waste of his bully pulpit.
There are only about 10,000 things that affect the poor more than this.
Indeed
Bingo.
“Vatican spells out vision for zero-carbon world”
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2015/04/vatican-spells-out-vision-for-zero-carbon-world/
Maybe that prophecy was correct, and Benedict XVI was indeed the last Pope.
These moronic laws will keep the poorest of the poor down longer and make many billions of us all poorest.
All for a hoax.
Hey pontiff,
I thought there was something in the Bible about NOT lying.
By way of example you should not promote the lie of manmade global warming or you will risk hellfire.
It’s not just the pope. This guy had to have a majority who voted him in and enough support to keep saying what he’s saying.
Keep injecting it whenever necessary.
We could cut down every tree on the planet...And if God wanted us to have fresh air, we'll have air...
There are many more stories out there, including the Italian press. But as you said so yourself, "You will believe what you will."
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