Posted on 01/30/2015 1:03:31 PM PST by Gamecock
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy met with Vatican officials that helped draft Pope Francis’ climate-related encyclical on Friday, The Associated Press reports.
An encyclical, a letter from the pope addressed to faithfuls worldwide when he feels he needs to reach them, is set to be published in June and might make environmentalism a Catholic doctrine like Pope Pius IX’s encyclical about infallibility. It might also be a simple condemnation of human destruction of the environment like Pope Pius XI’s encyclical against Italian Fascists.
The visit was aimed at showing the Holy See that the Obama administration share similar thoughts on climate change.
“I think the most important thing that we can do, working with the pope, is to try to remind ourselves that this is really about protecting natural resources that human beings rely on,” McCarthy said.
“It’s certainly not my place to dictate to the pope what he should be doing in an encyclical,” she continued.
One of these days the Pope is going to break the Internet!
So, which branch of the U.S. government is it that employs the Pope?
No, it won't. It will only serve to further demonstrate that this pope is a deeply flawed individual, as occasionally others through history have been. He's an embarrassment.
Matt 8:27
The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!”
Well for shure it ain`t Francis!
**No, it won’t. **
He gets up on the “throne” and utters whatever magic words that are needed and it will be.
The Pope is having members of the Obama Administration write his encyclicals. Pope Francis is either stupid to the point of being incompetent and unqualified or is a devious politician devoid of any spiritual values.
I pray for the future of the Catholic Church.
He's Catholic. And Catholics chose him.
Separation of Church and State not always preferred by Liberals, it seems.
It’s always been that way!
Hey, Frank!
You actually believe that Man will destroy the earth before God’s appointed time to remake it?
This pope lacks an essential quality of Christianity - Humility.
What does that say about the cardinals who chose him? What does that say about the men who chose those cardinals?
Do you post threads such as this to turn Catholics against their faith?
From Dennis Prager and his quote from The Guardian UK
“This year, the pope will use an immense amount papal moral influence to address global warming, or as it is now called, in light of the small amount of warming actually taking place, climate change. In a few weeks, he will visit the Philippine city of Tacloban, which was devastated by the super typhoon Haiyan in 2012. Then he will present his encyclical, and in September he will address the United Nations General Assembly on the subject. This will all be done in order to influence the December 2015 international Climate Change Conference in Paris.
The world’s left is ecstatic with this pope. As the Guardian reported:
“In recent months, the pope has argued for a radical new financial and economic system to avoid human inequality and ecological devastation. In October he told a meeting ... ‘An economic system centered on the god of money needs to plunder nature to sustain the frenetic rhythm of consumption that is inherent to it.
“’The system continues unchanged, since what dominates are the dynamics of an economy and a finance that are lacking in ethics. It is no longer man who commands, but money. Cash commands.
“’The monopolising of lands, deforestation, the appropriation of water, inadequate agro-toxics are some of the evils that tear man from the land of his birth. Climate change, the loss of biodiversity and deforestation are already showing their devastating effects in the great cataclysms we witness,” he said.
“The god of money needs to plunder nature.”
“Cash commands.”
“[Ecological] evils that tear man from the land of his birth.”
That is left-wing, even radical left-wing, language.
How are we to explain this?
How are we to explain that at the very moment that the oldest Christian communities in the world are being violently destroyed; that while Christians are murdered, raped and tortured in Africa and the Middle East; and while horrific barbarities are committed daily in the name of God, the pope issues an encyclical and travels around the world to talk about climate change?”
**Do you post threads such as this to turn Catholics against their faith?**
There is a Pope who seems to be doing that just fine.
A small cadre of insular Cardinals who happen to be your fellow Catholics.
What does the thread have to do with it? Does hearing that the pope does stupid things cause you to turn from your faith? Would you rather not know?
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