Posted on 04/29/2015 2:43:42 PM PDT by detective
“We are the first generation that can end poverty and the last generation that can avoid the worst impacts of climate change.” UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, told this to a conference of 60 scientists and academicians, political leaders (including the Presidents of Italy and Ecuador), business experts and representatives of the world’s major religions, at a summit meeting in the Vatican on April 28.
He addressed the high-powered gathering after “a fruitful and wide-ranging conversation” with Pope Francis, during which the pontiff confirmed that his encyclical on protecting the environment is finished and being translated, and expected to be published in June.
(Excerpt) Read more at americamagazine.org ...
These are some of the recommendations in the document issued by the Vatican:
● Reduce worldwide carbon dioxide emissions without delay, using all means possible to meet ambitious international targets for reducing global warming and ensuring the long-term stability of the climate system. All nations must focus on a rapid transition to renewable energy sources and other strategies to reduce CO2 emissions. Nations should also avoid removal of carbon sinks by stopping deforestation, and should strengthen carbon sinks by reforestation of degraded lands. These actions must be accomplished within a few decades, reaching net-zero carbon emissions by around 2070.
I’m for action too. Jail all of the warmists for constructive fraud.
I wonder what the FRomans thinks of this?
Yeah, this is much more important than that whole Gospel thing.
I seriously doubt that the next conclave will repeat the mistake of the last one.
Disturbing, for sure. But it is not a magisterial document. It was published by a scientific advisory board, not all Catholic and in fact not all Christian. They are a lay academic advisory panel.
I fear that nobody is going to make this distinction: the Pontifical Academy of Sciences has no Church authority. I hope they're not the only ones who had any so-called scientific or public policy input. (Groan...)
Over the next 6 weeks or so, you can expect a multiplication of this kind of drum-beating, tendentious "pre-coverage coverage".
No matter what the Pope says, it'll rarely break through all the elaborately constructed "framing."
My #1 prediction: Pope Francis makes a big case for natural sex/gender and natural marriage, natural procreation and the natural family as part of a wider respect for God's natural creation.
My #2 prediction: Nobody in the EneMedia will mention much of Pope Francis' defense of natural sex/gender. Nor will they make the salient point that the Pope has no authority to make magisterial statements about "climate change." Geophysical science is outside of his competence.
My #3 prediction: you won't be able to separate "what he said" from "what they said he said" unless you read the whole thing in Latin or Italian (or whatever language he's writing it in) and do your own translation.
Frankly, by the time it gets into English, I won't trust the page numbers unless I count them myself.
Remember, folks, you read it here first at Free Republic!
And Pope Francis is so on the ball about correcting all alleged “misinterpretations” attributed to his/the Vatican’s remarks.
Yikes. He talks too much.
For example, in this article I posted on FR two days ago an Italian "Vaticanista" journal notes that Pope Francis has come down hard against the "Critical Gender Theory" agenda. He called gay marriage "a machination of the devil" and said the negation of natural sex/gender was like "nuclear weapons" because it went against the natural order and could destroy whole civilizations.
Did you hear that?
No?
Ten thousand journalists are still repeating "Who am I to judge?" --- the only 5 papal words they've ever heard on the subject. Or at least, the only five words they'll condescend to report.
Greg Burke, formerly of the Fox News channel and a member of the supposedly very conservative and traditional Opus Dei, was hired in 2012 to be the the Vatican's top media advisor. I can't help wondering, what is he doing to earn his weekly euros? Anything?
The Pope should stick with working for God and stay out of the political propaganda on the global warming crap. By his voicing his support on the matter indicates he’s either a fool that is being played or has sold out to the NWO ruling elite. It’s more likely the latter.
I think Pope Francis is being used!!! (coming from a FRcatholic)
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Seems a Christian would understand that God created the earth and he can preserve it until he’s finished with it...
I just can’t imagine God saying, ‘you guys messed up my earth, now what are we going to do’???
Maybe God will just go home and forget about it...Try something new...
Has he taken a position on fracking yet?
And we’re supposed to believe him if and when he makes some kind of infallible statement on faith and morals?
I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him.....
It's coming...The sad thing is there are Catholics who will hang on his every word...
Their stand in for Christ is a gem isn't he?
And yet the FRomans clain the church puts out the same teaching as during the time of Christ.
With a Socialist Pope, homosexual priests. Liberal priests.
How can they even make that claim?!?
I think it would take experts in deprogramming the cult mentality to answer that question.
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