Posted on 12/13/2019 6:51:17 PM PST by marshmallow
ROME - On Thursday top Vatican officials hailed Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, recently named TIME Magazine’s “Person of the Year” for her environmental advocacy, as a “great witness” of Church teaching on care for creation and the human person.
Speaking to reporters at the Dec. 12 publication of Pope Francis’s message for the 2020 World Day of Peace, celebrated on Jan. 1 each year, Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Vatican office for Integral Human Development, called Thunberg “a great witness to what the Church teaches on the care of the environment and the care of the person.”
“What is her objective? Skipping school for a future, a future that can’t be guaranteed because there is no care for the environment,” he said, adding that in many cases, there is a complete lack of coherence between the international policies on the environment and what children are told.
Asked whether she was a model of the “ecological conversion” Francis calls for in the message, Turkson said that “model” was not the right word, but insisted that her activism brings attention to the Church’s insistence that “attention to the poor and society also coincide with care for the environment, the common home.”
“It’s a coherence with the Church’s teaching,” he said, adding that care of the environment is also a matter of faith.
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Sounds like the pope is worshiping the creation instead of the Creator.
This pope is rewriting everything as he goes along so making this teenybopper into a saint while shes still alive would be easy...and the required 3 miracles would be discarded of course...Although one could be that its a miracle this idiot is still alive...
LOL
Same as it ever was. Keeping things on an even keel is a constant struggle.
RICO. in action. Francis is allowed to be there by Catholics. Nuff sed
Toss the kid a bone! The way she snarls she’ll hang on to it.
Oh the canonization process is getting an early start.
All that believe in Christ our our Lord are saints.
Agree. The Catholic Church of my ill begotten youth is dead.
Oh yeah right. Because Greta is such a solid catholic
You and me both.
lol
Pope a dope. Stoopid cardinals.
All kinds of weird pronouncements have come from The Vatican over the centuries.
Christian values will continue, but the Catholic Church is on the rocks.
#ClimateHoax is the #GatewayToCommunism
Creation is nothing but an impermanent arrangement of dust.
I keep hearing something about a millstone in my head...
“It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.”
If aiding and abetting this poor girl ain’t relevant, I don’t know what is.
Poor,
Demented
Child.
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