[Barf Alert] Pope Pushes Progress on Sustainable Development

Zenit ^ | June 9, 2019 | Jim Fair

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Pope Francis on June 8, 2019, urged more progress on sustainable development goals in an address to 2019 International Conference of the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation.

“Your Conference this year has chosen to reflect on the Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ and the call to a conversion of minds and hearts so that the development of an integral ecology can become ever more a priority internationally, nationally and indeed individually,” Pope Francis noted. “In the four years since the publication of the Encyclical, there have certainly been signs of increased awareness of the need to care for our common home.

“At the same time, however, a number of challenges and issues still remain. Progress on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals has in some cases been slow and even non-existent. Improper use of natural resources and models of development that are not inclusive and sustainable continue to have negative effects on poverty, social growth and social equality (cf. Laudato Si’, 43, 48); and the common good is placed in jeopardy by attitudes of unbridled individualism, consumption, and wastefulness.”

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Some of the UN's sustainable goals include: gender equality, climate action, reduced inequalities (within and among countries), etc.

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Ping

[mass55th]

Pope Francis, what’s your take on using human remains as compost?

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

"2019 International Conference of the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation"

Huh? What is Anus Pro?

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's a conference "For the Pope" on the subject of Centesimus Annus, "The Hundredth Year", an encyclical which was written by Pope John Paul II in 1991, on the hundredth anniversary of Rerum novarum, an encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII in 1891.

Such a wit, you.

Anyhow, C.A. was an intelligent teaching document; Laudto Si and the SDG, not so much.

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From Rerum Novarum:

4. To remedy these wrongs the socialists, working on the poor man's envy of the rich, are striving to do away with private property, and contend that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the State or by municipal bodies.

Doesn't sound like something Pope Francis would advocate.

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Sorry, here's the full paragraph:

4. To remedy these wrongs the socialists, working on the poor man's envy of the rich, are striving to do away with private property, and contend that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the State or by municipal bodies. They hold that by thus transferring property from private individuals to the community, the present mischievous state of things will be set to rights, inasmuch as each citizen will then get his fair share of whatever there is to enjoy. But their contentions are so clearly powerless to end the controversy that were they carried into effect the working man himself would be among the first to suffer. They are, moreover, emphatically unjust, for they would rob the lawful possessor, distort the functions of the State, and create utter confusion in the community. (emphasis mine, ET).

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Oh gosh, how did I misspell that? :-) :-)

I remember John Paul II fondly. Someday I'll relate here a story of how the Sierra Club took him on, and won the battle but lost the war.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Whoa-Kay! And go ahead and tell the story, I’m all ears!

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

It’s long. So I’ll wait til I have access to a full keyboard.

[Mrs. Don-o]

OK, thanks.