Posted on 02/08/2022 7:26:24 PM PST by marshmallow
VATICAN CITY, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Dumping plastic in waterways is "criminal" and must end if humanity wants to save the planet for future generations, Pope Francis said in a television interview on Sunday.
In the hour-long interview on state broadcaster RAI's Channel 3, Francis also reiterated some of the key themes of his papacy, condemning excessive spending on armaments, defending the rights of migrants, and condemning ideological rigidity by conservatives in the Church.
Francis, who has made defending the environment a cornerstone of his pontificate, recounted how Italian fishermen came to him one year and told him they had found many tons of plastic in the Adriatic Sea. The next time he saw them they said they had found twice as much and took it upon themselves to help clean some of it up.
"Throwing plastic into the sea is criminal. It kills biodiversity, it kills the earth, it kills everything," he said."
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He is such an unholy man.
Go preach to them about it.
He is, but littering is a criminal act in nearly all places... so he’s not wrong on this one.
So he’s Captain Obvious too.
I don’t ever look him up but see the articles of him on here. Seems he never is talking about the Bible.
Shut up and Pope.
He’s getting involved in almost everything these days, everything that is except the traditional values of the Catholic Church. What next, your Holiness?
Dare I say “Dancing With The Stars?” Don’t worry. You can chose a proxy dancer in the proper vestments.
He's abolishing those.
I guess I don’t get it, whether the guy is a Pope, or some fisherman.
Plastic bags and rivers and fishing don’t go together....
What’s a Bible? Who is this Jesus you speak of?
What about dumping South American idols into the Tiber?
That whole “grow the church” thing is lost on him, a man who politics put in station and not God.
What the ImPopester is doing to the church is beyond criminal.
Now we know where the the expression "to pontificate" comes from.
> He’s getting involved in almost everything these days, everything that is except the traditional values of the Catholic Church. <
You beat me to it.
And here’s another thing. The more proclamations a person in authority issues, the less weight people give to each proclamation. Francis is churning out proclamations almost daily now.
I now have Francis fatigue. I’m sure I’m not the only one.
Go scold the Chinese you friggin commie.
The Africans may listen, but the Chinese could care less.
But what about my eternal soul?
That’s a first for me, I actually agree with him on this. Yeah, modern society has grown addicted to plastic, it’s made our lives so much easier in ways that we can all recognize. But on the other hand, it has become the primary scourge of the earth that demonstrates how humans are over playing their hand on the environment the world over.
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