Posted on 09/15/2019 6:02:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME — Pope Francis has banned plastic in Vatican City State to stand in solidarity with environmentalists. He made the announcement from aboard the papal plane during a long-haul flight back from his recent trip to Africa.
The pope said he had been disturbed by a conversation a couple months ago with sea chaplains and fishermen who recounted how they had gathered six tons of plastic from the ocean over the course of a few months.
“In the Vatican we have banned plastic,” Francis told journalists. “We are working on that.”
The pope went on to explain that his prayer intention for September is for “the protection of the oceans that give us the oxygen we breathe.”
“We need to defend ecology and biodiversity — which is our life — and defend oxygen — which is our life,” he said. “I am comforted by the fact that it is young people who are waging this war. They have a great conscience and are saying: ‘The future is ours. Do what you want with yours but not with ours!’”
The pope said that he had been “anguished” when he saw a photo of a ship sailing all the way to the North Pole undisturbed by ice.
“And not long ago, we all saw the photograph of the symbolic funeral for an extinct glacier in Greenland,” he said.
In recent months, the pope has been adopting stronger rhetoric to describe what he sees as a climate emergency around the globe.
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The plastic pope bans plastic.
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
Odd, because this pope is plastic banana type of guy.
Oh dear God...
Does the Pope not realize that the Anti-Christ will probably be the most “woke” person to ever walk the earth?
That religious book the pope keeps going on and on about (sorry, can’t remember the name of it right now) says something in its last chapter about Satan’s designated agent will using false narratives to enslave the world. “Wokeness” is the greatest narrative ever created.
Just think how many resources could be saved if The Vatican would just fold up its tent and disband.
So when is Francis going to tear down Vatican walls and house illegal Somali immigrants in the Vatican?
We finally have a Pope who cares.......about plastic. For real.
Pope Beelzebub Christkiller
“He made the announcement from aboard the papal plane during a long-haul flight back from his recent trip to Africa. “
His trip damaged the earth more than all his plastics
This pope seems to worry more about plastic than about all the little babies aborted.
Can’t imagine how much energy is used maintaining the Vatican library. Better everything is imaged and made available and searchable online.
The Plastic Pope.
Fitting.
I never ever hear of this Pope speaking about Christ, salvation, or God. He only seems to speak on politics.
America and europe are not the ones dumping plastic into the oceans. This won’t help one bit.
So an area of the globe that is just over 100 acres in size thinks it’s going to make an impact on the world’s polution? LOL
Socialist anti-Pope
/a Christian Catholic
“He made the announcement from aboard the papal plane “
Not a chance he’ll ever fly Coach to save the planet.
He dines on the finest china, uses silver tableware and cut crystal. Zero personal impact on banning plastic.
Forgot to ask, is banning plastic in the Old or New Testaments?
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