Posted on 05/24/2019 5:00:44 PM PDT by ebb tide
(ANSA) - Vatican City, May 24 - The Vatican on Friday called on international leaders to listen to the young people in Italy and around the world who staged the latest in a a series of school strikes on Friday calling for action to address the climate crisis.
"We need to appeal to political leaders to be far more courageous and to listen to the dramatic cry raised by the scientific community and the climate youth movement," said Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, the prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. "Their frustration and anger towards our generation is clear.
We risk robbing them of their future," added Turkson in a message on the fourth anniversary of Pope Francis's environmental encyclical, Laudato Si'.
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What does first world mean? Third world?
You have a problem with third world Christians who aren't asking for handouts?
The Pope who mirrored the Suffering Servant, the complete opposite of the secular globalist we have today. Resign Francis!
Prima facie evidence that some or all of their teachers need to be fired.
May 24, 2019
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CWN Editor's Note: The Vatican’s dicastery for Integral Human Development has said that limiting global warming to 1.5º centigrade per year is a “critical physical threshold,” and a moral and religious threshold as well. Meeting that 1.5º figure, the dicastery says—in a statement timed for the anniversary of the papal encyclical Laudato Si’—is “the last chance to save all those countries and many millions of vulnerable people who live in coastal regions.”The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN news coverage. The Francis has now replaced the Sixth Commandment with the above Commandment.
The Hitler Youth movement had spiffier uniforms.
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