Posted on 06/19/2026 4:12:24 PM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Leo XIV participated this Tuesday via video message in the tenth edition of the Austrian World Summit, the international summit on sustainability and climate change held in Vienna. In his address, the Pontiff defended the need to promote a “just transition” toward economic models oriented to the common good, called for greater financial support for the poorest countries, and urged stronger international cooperation to address environmental challenges.
The message was addressed to participants gathered at the Hofburg Palace in the Austrian capital, where the Pope linked the climate crisis to broader economic and social problems, an idea he had already developed in his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas.
One of the most notable aspects of his intervention was his call for the most developed countries to increase financial support for the poorest and most vulnerable nations.
Leo XIV also called for a “just transition” toward economic models oriented to the common good and proposed moving toward an international financial framework that would enable less developed countries to address both economic challenges and the consequences of natural disasters.
The Pope also highlighted the contribution that religions can offer in caring for creation and recalled that for believers the world is a gift from God that must be protected.
He likewise insisted that responses to the ecological crisis must always place human dignity and the needs of the most vulnerable people at the center.
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Pope Leo, going liberal on us? What the heck?
Hey, Pope Leo? I’m trying to grow tomatoes here to feed my Fellow Man!
It’s going down into the 50’s tonight and tomatoes do NOT like that!
Fix this ‘globull warming thang’ already, could ya? It doesn’t take money! You say you have an ‘in’ with, ‘The Man Upstairs’ and all that...
Marxist? Yes.
I’m a traditional Catholic and I wish the Pope would mind his own business of saving souls, and not anything else like climate change and the environment!
“The Holy See (the central governing body of the Catholic Church) generates an estimated $800 million to $900 million in annual revenue. However, the Vatican frequently operates at a deficit, regularly falling tens of millions of dollars short of covering its total costs.” I wonder why.
I had such hopes for this one...
Pay up, sucka!
this fkn guy is worse than Francis...
and come to think of it... Why doesnt he pray to God to cool the planet?
It’s very hard to get good numbers, but by some estimates the Vatican controls $70 billion. That includes investments, real estate, and artworks.
That makes Vatican City per citizen the richest nation on Earth.
What “climate tax” has Leo imposed on himself?
The article doesn’t say.
🤔
Eff off, Prevost.
I remember when we had Catholic Popes.
Time to tax the Church.
“..“The Holy See (the central governing body of the Catholic Church) generates an estimated $800 million to $900 million in annual revenue....”
This so-called “pope” needs to put his money where his big mouth is. Belly up to the bar and contribute bigly to the proposed tax. Guy is a marxist arsehole....
This guy obviously spent too much time south of the border.
I knew Francis would be a commie coming from South America. I figured they elected an American this time, hoping to improve that.
But this guy spent so much time down there, the commie has rubbed off.
Only recently have some of our brothers to the south started to shift back to the right politically.
Nevertheless, I’m not expecting to see Kissinger on the Peso anytime soon.
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