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(Vatican) Official Warns Against Idolizing Nature
Zenit (via EWTN) ^ | 1 May | Zenit

Posted on 05/08/2007 1:46:47 AM PDT by rogernz

VATICAN CITY, APRIL 30, 2007 (Zenit.org).- A Vatican official warned against idolizing the environment and losing sight of the dignity of the human person, in the wake of a conference on climate change and development.

Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said this Friday, at the end of the dicastery's two-day conference.

It brought together some 80 experts and focused on various aspects of climate change and the development of peoples.

"Nature is for the human person and the human person is for God," Cardinal Martino said. "In considering the problems associated with climate change, one must look to the social doctrine of the Church," which "neither supports the absolutization of nature, nor the reduction of nature to a mere instrument."

"Nature is not an absolute, but a wealth that is placed in the person's responsible and prudent hands," he added.

(Excerpt) Read more at ewtn.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events
KEYWORDS: catholic; globalwarming; martino; vatican

1 posted on 05/08/2007 1:46:50 AM PDT by rogernz
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To: rogernz

I was skeptical, but I’m glad the Vatican weighed in on this.


2 posted on 05/08/2007 1:56:05 AM PDT by D-fendr
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To: D-fendr

Pretty much saying avoid the GW as a religion; act on it if necessary. Manage the planet as a man, not as a god.


3 posted on 05/08/2007 2:05:00 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit (Everyone wants a simple answer; but sometimes there isn't a simple answer)
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To: D-fendr

LOL A real no brainer to be good stewards.

I enjoy my subscribtion to Zenit for the latest Vatican news but this bit of info is just a beaut for a slow news week...all is good.


4 posted on 05/08/2007 2:08:46 AM PDT by Global2010
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To: rogernz

Al Gore, please pick up the white courtesy phone...


5 posted on 05/08/2007 2:37:21 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod (Benedict XVI = Terminator IV)
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To: rogernz
Nature is not an absolute, but a wealth that is placed in the person's responsible and prudent hands.

Ah, a voice of common sense!

6 posted on 05/08/2007 4:20:59 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("That would be the camel's nose under the mouse.")
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To: rogernz

... and it’s time someone also reminded the liberal-left environmrntal-wackos about that separation of church and state concept that they found a few decades ago in the Constitution ...


7 posted on 05/08/2007 4:29:28 AM PDT by Beowulf
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To: rogernz

Envirolatry.


8 posted on 05/08/2007 4:44:11 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: rogernz; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; nickcarraway; ...

Thanks for the post!


9 posted on 05/08/2007 7:19:26 AM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: Tax-chick

No “GAIA” need apply!

;-o)


10 posted on 05/08/2007 7:23:45 AM PDT by Frank Sheed (Dead Ráibéad.... Lifelong Irish Papist!)
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To: Tax-chick

and the surprising thing is that is from Cardinal Martino, the Vatican’s looney lefty


11 posted on 05/08/2007 7:34:40 AM PDT by Nihil Obstat (Kyrie Eleison)
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To: Nihil Obstat

Apparently he’s not so looney that he thinks the poor should starve in order eliminate their “carbon footprint.” Good for him!


12 posted on 05/08/2007 7:48:19 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("The cats will call me a lawyer!")
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To: Nihil Obstat

he’s soon gonna see the wrath of the econazis...


13 posted on 05/09/2007 12:31:23 AM PDT by rogernz
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To: rogernz
""When the person wants to take God's place, he loses sight of himself and his responsibility to govern nature."

Bravo!
14 posted on 05/09/2007 6:48:27 AM PDT by NewCenturions (By The Great Horn Spoon !)
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