As a Catholic, with all due respect, the Vatican is full of crap these days.
BOOM goes the dynamite. Just ask the suffering people in Pakistan if they’d like to have air conditioning right now.
The current occupant of the throne of Peter is a marxist who occasionally remembers to say something that sounds like Catholic doctrine.
Because it gets hot in Rome?
Because it gets hot in Rome?
I get an envelope every month labeled “To Defray Heating and Air Conditioning Costs”. From now on I am going to fill it with a copy of that passage from the encyclical.
In reading the encyclical and listening to the Popes comments, it strikes me that the 1 organization he has NOT criticized is GOVERNMENT. Considering that governments are the ones who wage war, have the most weapons, kill, imprison and oppress the most people, etc., you would think he might have something to say. Instead he focuses on capitalists and free market systems.
Bump
There are rules Michelle. When the pope say something completely ridiculous, he’s been misquoted or mistranslated.
When he says something reasonable, it stands as is.
It’s really quite a phenomenon!
“You think civilization is some horrible, polluting human invention that separates us from the state of nature. But civilization doesn’t separate us from nature, Ted. Civilization protects us from nature”
~STATE of FEAR (Crichton)
The Pope should declare all the recent deaths in the recent Indian heat wave to be martyrs for climate change
As a practicing Roman Catholic I feel I need to remind everyone that this institution has had all kinds of bad popes and when they forget the admonition “My Kingdom Is Not Of This World” .This church gets into all sorts of trouble. But survives.
These meandering homilys of This pope on temporal matters diffuse any theologic message Pope Francis offers. Snowballs should be thrown at those pointy hat supporters of his as well as opposition clearly expressed to those meanderings on any visit Francis may make here.
I like him. I like Curly too.
Some of you....are so harsh.
He’s not Jesus here, just a man, and he admits so, surrounded by a corrupt group running roughshod. Pray for him, as he asks.