Posted on 11/19/2021 6:48:07 PM PST by marshmallow
The Vatican’s seven-year plan to widen the reach of Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical on the environment is just what the church needs in a time of global climate change in the mind of Father Emmet Farrell, a retired priest living in San Diego.
“The church is very serious about what we need to do to address climate change,” Father Farrell, volunteer director of the Creation Care Ministry of the Diocese of San Diego, said of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform that launched Nov. 14.
The pope introduced the initiative in a video May 25, asking the world to join a new global grassroots movement to create a more inclusive, fraternal, peaceful and sustainable world.
Coordinated through the Dicastery for Integral Human Development, the platform is “a seven-year journey that will see our communities committed in different ways to becoming totally sustainable, in the spirit of integral ecology,” the pope said.
“We need a new ecological approach that can transform our way of dwelling in the world, our lifestyles, our relationship with the resources of the earth and, in general, our way of looking at humanity and of living life,” he said.
Father Farrell is working on the effort with a team of lay leaders. The diocesan ministry has developed a “Creation Care Action Plan” that includes numerous actions — from the simple to more complex — that individuals, parishes and wider society can take to promote sustainability.
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Is this serious?
The article was written and published with a straight face by a press organ that is aligned with the political goals of Big Church (i.e., Bergoglio’s “antichurch”), do yes, in that manner, while being totally duplicitous, as of course it must be to preserve a paper thin veil of legitimacy, it is “serious”.
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The Catholic Climate Covenant is coordinating the U.S. involvement with the global platform.
Executive director Jose Aguto said dozens of Catholic entities have committed to work toward achieving the initiative’s goals. Its own initiative, called “We’re All Part of God’s Plan(et),” provides resources, ideas and a gathering place for those seeking to integrate Laudato Si’ into daily life.
“The covenant wants to make available to interested institutions and individuals access to the people who are working in the respective communities and sectors to implement integral ecology in prayer, word and deed,” he told CNS. “We seek to offer to U.S. faithful and institutions not just a website with resources to implement Laudato Si’ but also hands-on expertise to help accompany them in doing so.”
He said that in addition to San Diego, 16 other U.S. dioceses have developed plans before the platform launch. He expects others to follow.
The covenant also has distributed dozens of small grants to institutions to help them implement the platform. Funds were made available through a $50,000 gift from Our Lady of Victory Mission Sisters of Huntington, Indiana, and a matching amount from donors.
Additional funding is being sought to continue supporting local efforts, Aguto said.
The university and college sector has 80 institutions worldwide onboard, said Michael Schuck, a professor of theology at Loyola University Chicago who is co-director of the International Jesuit Ecology Project.
Each school has committed to developing its own action plan, he said. Institutions are located in 25 countries including Australia, Benin, Columbia, India, France, Madagascar, Mexico, Nicaragua and the United States.
After the launch, the schools will be assembled into small groups from widely dispersed geographic areas. Schuck said they will then regularly meet online, allowing for the exchange of ideas with the chance to learn from each other.
“The journey,” he said, “is about pushing and changing and incentivizing and moving ahead.”
Like liberation theology, it will result in more Catholics in Latin America and where I live in the Philippines joining Evangelical churches, more US middle and working class Catholics from joining Latin mass churches or Protestant churches. And in Africa, they are more worried about being killed by Muslim tribal feuds than with pollution.
If the Pope really wants to stop pollution in the third world, he should start excommunicating corrupt politicians who take bribes to let companies pollute, sell drugs, steal land and steal millions of dollars of money supposed to be used for basic stuff like clean water and decent roads.
When these idiots talk about “creation” they imagine it to be something like an English cottage garden— benign, flowering plants and shrubs with delicious fruits and nuts. No snakes or stinging insects. They have an infantile wish to return to the Garden of Eden. Worship nature! But the reality is that “nature” is largely hostile to human life—winter cold, wildfire, drought, tornadoes and hurricanes, and what Tennyson observed among God’s creatures, “nature red in tooth and claw.”
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