Posted on 12/12/2007 6:08:29 AM PST by libstripper
Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology.
The leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics suggested that fears over man-made emissions melting the ice caps and causing a wave of unprecedented disasters were nothing more than scare-mongering.
The German-born Pontiff said that while some concerns may be valid it was vital that the international community based its policies on science rather than the dogma of the environmentalist movement.
His remarks will be made in his annual message for World Peace Day on January 1, but they were released as delegates from all over the world convened on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali for UN climate change talks.
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I wonder what his Freeper name is.
I think you're thinking of an article in the British press claiming that the Pope "was going to" and "was planning to" and "was about to do" thus-and-such.
All it was, was media speculation.
Preach it Father!
The Pope definitely is! After all, there's a horde of Papists on the Exxon payroll and they all contribute to the Catholic Church.
Hadn't thought of that. We'll have to get Dan Brown to do some research on the Knights Templer and Big Oil. ;~))
He's beautiful
And he's mine.
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The Pope, and not Gore, deserves a Nobel prize.
If instead it is a case of homosexual tendencies that are merely the expression of a transitory problem, for example as in the case of an unfinished adolescence, they must however have been clearly overcome for at least three years before ordination as a deacon.
Anybody notice that he got so-called social justice in there, and decried unilateral decision-making?
I thought we already knew that.
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Are you Catholic? And have you read the entire document published by the Congregation for Catholic Education?
Do you think that a homosexual is going to lose his homosexual "tendencies" even if he remains celibate for three years? Is a leopard going to lose his spots, a tiger his stripes? Homosexuals are what they are, and they are attracted to the church because it is swarming with men.
Homosexual "tendencies"? Unfinished adolescence? A transitory problem? Overcome in three years? What nonsense!!! All of it! All it does is open the door to homosexuals with suppressed homosexuality, who will then act on it. Putting children in their parishes at risk.
Love my German Shepherd
Since seminarians take an oath of celibacy what do you care who they are NOT doing it with? It seems like a pretty effective way to deal with urges and tendencies within the Christian framework of forgiveness and "hate the sin, love the sinner, doesn't it?
This Pope is awesome! Like him better every day. Go Pope!
~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ping~~
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