And if you're Catholic, and find yourself disagreeing with the Pope, then you might consider that it is you who need to change, not him.
Unless the Pope is speaking Ex cathedra, all bets are off. I can understand respecting the office, but when the Pope jumps into the world of economics and environmentalism he's stepping way outside the bounds of infallibility.
If he makes statements like this, he should expect criticism. That is not disrespect. I have said on this board that I don't care for the Catholic church because of some of its liberal positions, and this is one more example of why I don't. The Pope made a very liberal statement with this. He deserves criticism.
I believe in freedom. If people want materialism, that is their choice. I fight it every day in my own life (try not to get sucked into buying bigger and more than I need). But I am not going to use the government to do it, and I do not think it is a good idea for a religious leader to be supporting the Marxist position.
Whether you are catholic or not and you find yourself disagreeing with the Pope, then you might also consider that you are right, and that he can be wrong.
I agree with you. I applaud the Pope (and any religious leader) for encouraging us to be wise stewards of the earth and treat it with respect, as it was created by God for us.
One doesn’t need to subscribe to the man-made global warming myth to be a conscientious conservationist.
But why would the Pope come out in favor of some of the most important false propaganda currently advanced by the Marxists—envirowackism—especially at a time when the level of credibility of anthropogenic global warming theory is beginning to crumble?