Posted on 06/16/2015 1:16:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The 192-page document is Pope Francis' first major teaching letter on climate change and its effects on the planet's poor.
Italian magazine L’Espresso leaked Pope Francis’ hotly anticipated encyclical on climate change on its website on Monday, breaking an embargo on the document set for Thursday.
The 192-page document is Pope Francis’ first major teaching letter on climate change and its effects on the planet’s poor. Hailed by some as the “Pope of the poor,” Francis’ linkage of environmental and economic issues puts the Vatican out front on a closely watched topic.
A Vatican official told Bloomberg News that the leak was a “heinous act.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
*yawn*
Half of Catholics, at least here in the states, have been conditioned to ignore their Church on matters like birth control and abortion.
I’m guessing a much larger % than half are simply going to *yawn* and ignore this.
“Hailed by some as the “Pope of the poor,”
More like a liberal politician than a pope.
Gibberish. Got a transcript?
Francis the talking mule. I didn’t read the article.
The only thing I've seen is in Italian. Sorry.
Maybe he needs to sell the Vatican and give the money to the poor?
Google Translate isn’t perfect, but it might help.
Vatican has a Snowden, God bless him.
Do you think that's the right approach for Catholics to take?
Aint that a mortal sin?
Are we contributing to satan’s plans by reading a draft?
He's always been a liberation theologist.
Cut from the same cloth as the Nicaraguan Sandinista priests who turned Christ into a Marxist revolutionary with an AK-47.
While Church doctrine on birth control and abortion is binding, this encyclical is not.
Apples and oranges.
I’m not commenting on the rightness or wrongness of it.
Just proposing what’s going to happen.
Thats certainly true. But largely irrelevant except for the likelihood that most US Catholics, conditioned to ignore something binding, will have an easier time ignoring something that isn’t.
And thats assuming that they are theologically versed enough, as you are, to know there’s a difference.
Considering the Pope is not a scientist and his opinion on this matter carries no greater weight than the next person’s on this matter .... Then yeah, I’m going to place this in the same circular file as his anti- capitalist complaints.
The problem is that more than half of Catholics vote democrat.
The European office knows that Catholics will hear this. A lost of this seems directed at the 2016 American election.
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