Senior Biden Administration Officials Participating in High-Level Vatican Conference on Friday

National Cathollic Register ^ | May 13, 2021 | Edward Pentin

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Senior Biden Administration Officials Participating in High-Level Vatican Conference on Friday

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and climate envoy John Kerry will take part in the conference, entitled ‘Dreaming of a Better Restart.’

VATICAN CITY — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, President Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry, and the heads of the IMF, World Bank, and African Union will be taking part in a high-level Vatican conference on Friday on the theme “Dreaming of a Better Restart.” 

Hosted by the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, the one-day meeting, which includes the participation of finance ministers from the US, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Argentina, aims to build on recent inter-governmental efforts to combat inequality, climate change, and hunger following the COVID crisis. 

The conference, which will take place online and in-person, takes its inspiration from Pope Francis’ 2020 social encyclical Fratelli Tutti. It will cover two main topics: “Financial and Tax Solidarity,” which will focus on a G20 debt restructuring program for the world’s poorest countries, and “Integral Ecological Sustainability,” which will examine climate change in the context of a “sustainable and fair” transformation of the energy and food system. 

The latter topic will take up many of the themes of President Biden’s Earth Summit, a recent online conference that drew together a host of world leaders including Pope Francis. Issues to be discussed will similarly be “stronger climate ambition” to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and the integration of energy and food transformation strategies to achieve a “harmonious transition.”

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It is also consistent with the policy of the Pontifical Academies of Science and Social Sciences. During this pontificate and under the leadership of its Argentinian chancellor, Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, the academies have uncritically subscribed to the science of climate change, limiting speakers to only proponents of the science, and banning climate change skeptics.

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Biden’s pope (or is it Bergoglio’s president) Ping

[Hambone 1934]

This so is much more fun than saving souls..That’s so 19th century.........

[Marchmain]

Didn’t you post this same article yesterday?

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[Truthoverpower]

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