Posted on 09/02/2016 5:29:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
September 1, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — In his message for the celebration of World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation today, Pope Francis called on Catholics to go to confession for sins of not being respectful of creation, giving examples of examination of conscience such as “avoiding the use of plastic and paper,” “separating refuse” and “turning off unnecessary lights.” He called on Catholics to have an “ecological conversion.”
Recalling the year 2000 act of public repentance by Pope John Paul II for sins of “religious intolerance, as well as for injustice toward Jews, women, indigenous peoples, immigrants, the poor and the unborn,” Pope Francis suggested public repentance by the Church for environmental sins. “Let us repent of the harm we are doing to our common home,” he said.
The papal message takes as fact questionable climate change extremism as did his encyclical Laudato Si released in June 2015. In the message released today, Francis speaks of “devastation of the environment” and man-made “global warming” and “climate change.”
“God gave us a bountiful garden, but we have turned it into a polluted wasteland of ‘debris, desolation, and filth,’” he said. He warned of the “loss of biodiversity and the destruction of ecosystems, often caused by our irresponsible and selfish behavior.”
“Global warming continues, due in part to human activity: 2015 was the warmest year on record, and 2016 will likely be warmer still,” he wrote.
The Pope also proposed adding to the centuries-old tradition of the seven Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy an eighth in each list:
As a spiritual work of mercy, care for our common home calls for a “grateful contemplation of God’s world” (Laudato Si’, 214) which “allows us to discover in each thing a teaching which God wishes to hand on to......
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No you haven’t, he is the one espousing far out theology.
Were they steel belted radials, my son????? /s
Pope Francis called on Catholics to go to confession ...“avoiding the use of plastic and paper,” “separating refuse” and “turning off unnecessary lights.”
Enjoy your pope.
“Global warming continues,
vocal member of the globular warmening cult.
- What about the additional trucks required for the recycling bins?
- What about the birds killed by the solar panels and windmills?
- What about the poor displaced by depressed energy-starved economies?
Literally damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
As a Catholic, for morality, I’ll refer to the Bible, with help from the doctors and saints, including JP2.
Then they need to keep him in Rome
obongo isn’t _resident anymore than the fake Pope is Pope.
If I wasn’t living it, I wouldn’t believe it.
Look. If we didn’t cut down trees for paper products we’d all be up to our pretty eyes in trees, they’d wind up taking over the world. Can you imagine what a forest New York City would be if these trees got out of hand. The horror!
Ten or twenty years ago, the merging of the church of Gaia (earth worship) and Catholicism in the “Left Behind” series seemed over the top impossible ... then real life mocks it by having the REAL pope come out and say worship mother earth, Jesus says so.
I miss our German Shepherd.
I no longer have any respect for your Catholic Church. You allowed a good Pope to be usurped by this POS. You deserve this.
He is concentrating too much on soil and not enough on SOUL. He’s a dangerous nut.
What a joke. These lefties have just no idea how sick they are. Christianity being pushed down the tubes and here this guy is helping out by pushing as hard as he can.
With our luck this pagan impostor will live to 110.
The Pope has foresaken the Gospels for worshiping the earth goddess and the heresy of Al Gore.
Can’t we just pay indulgences (or UN taxes) to get Gaia’s favor and forgiveness?
SAVE THE EARTH
ITS THE ONLY PLANET WITH CHOCOLATE
I didn’t vote for either one. I feel good about that.
I understand your sentiments. But I refuse to take any blame for his election. I’m not a Cardinal.
Papal poppycock.
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