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Meet the Newest Anti-Fracking Activist: Pope Francis
Foreign Policy Magazine ^ | November 13, 2013 | Katelyn Fossett

Posted on 11/14/2013 9:37:49 AM PST by GIdget2004

Pope Francis has already become a favorite of progressives with his fairly open-minded statements on homosexuality and birth control. But that adoration may go into overdrive, now that the Pope has adopted a new role as an environmental crusader, too. On Monday, the Pope was photographed with environmental activists holding T-shirts with anti-fracking slogans.

The photographs were taken after a meeting in the Vatican on Monday in which the Pope spoke with a group of Argentine environmental activists to discuss fracking and water contamination. He reportedly told the group he is preparing an encyclical -- a letter addressing a part of Catholic doctrine -- about nature, humans, and environmental pollution.

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To: GIdget2004
In matters of religion, I hold the Pope in high regard and generally defer to his wisdom.

In matters of petroleum engineering, not so much.

21 posted on 11/14/2013 10:34:14 AM PST by wbill
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To: bigdaddy45

Who does he think should win Dancing with the Stars?

Now that he is going to start talking about things he has no business talking about.


22 posted on 11/14/2013 10:48:14 AM PST by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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To: GIdget2004

Good grief. He must be hobnobbing too much with His All-Holiness Bartholomew (a.k.a “Black Bart”), who took up environmentalism in a big way, I think because it was the only sphere of politics the Turks would let him be active in.

(And yes, we Orthodox tend to give deprecating pet names to our hierarchs when they take positions whose consonance with Holy Tradition is dubious — the EP who introduced the New Calendar and broke the unity of the Orthodox Church in America by setting up the Greek Archdiocese in parallel to the existing Russian hierarch tends to be uniformly referred to as “Patriarch Miletius of Sorrowful Memory” in many circles of the Church (not just among adherents of the Old Calendar, either).)


23 posted on 11/14/2013 10:59:08 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: GIdget2004

He should stick to issues in his area of expertise.


24 posted on 11/14/2013 11:07:41 AM PST by WayneS (No problem is so great that it cannot be made worse by a "progressive" solution.)
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To: WayneS
He should stick to issues in his area of expertise.

You're right. But I've been saying that for years whenever bishops or the Pope make statements about economics or military affairs. My book on the morality of the use of nuclear weapons was intended as a direct rebuke to the American bishops for their stupid encyclical on war.

25 posted on 11/14/2013 11:23:04 AM PST by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
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To: markomalley

Are you claiming the picture of him holding the anti-fracking T-shirt is photoshopped?


26 posted on 11/14/2013 11:39:19 AM PST by DManA
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To: DManA; metmom; boatbums; redleghunter; CyberAnt; aMorePerfectUnion; caww; ...
Are you claiming the picture of him holding the anti-fracking T-shirt is photoshopped?

I would say it looks suspicious. View image on Twitter

http://grist.org/news/divine-intervention-pope-opposes-fracking/


27 posted on 11/14/2013 12:47:20 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212

Note the Daniel in the above post is not me, but was included in the pasted coding. .


28 posted on 11/14/2013 12:50:49 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: dead
As a human being, he's entitled as any person to have an opinion. As a Pope, his opinion on fracking is no more relevant or important than the opinion of a baker, a soldier, a fisherman, or a tailor.

LOL


29 posted on 11/14/2013 1:29:03 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: JoeFromSidney
This book?

I found it in a used book store in Shepherdstown, WV. Intriguing title ... bought it ... EXCELLENT!

30 posted on 11/14/2013 1:37:32 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: GIdget2004

A sincerely held belief requires action. He has been fooled like so many others. We need to open his eyes to the lies couched in scientific terms and presented as facts.

He will consider the evidence; it is likely he has only seen the lies to this point.


31 posted on 11/14/2013 2:08:34 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: daniel1212

“No Al Fracking”

The Pope later commented that he is sorry for any harm that he may have done to the petroleum industry, as he was led to believe that the shirt was from an anti-homosexual organization. /s


32 posted on 11/14/2013 2:14:42 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: NorthMountain
Yes. That's the one.
33 posted on 11/15/2013 12:07:52 PM PST by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
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