Vatican Marks Ecology Saint’s Feast Day with Film Premiere, Climate Accords

Catholic News Service ^ | 10/4/22 | Carol Glatz

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Pope Francis and global activists are pictured in a banner for the new YouTube Originals film on the pope's encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home." The film launched Oct. 4, feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the same day the Holy See acceded to the Paris Agreement. (CNS photo/YouTube Originals)

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican hosted the global premiere of a new documentary on the urgent need to address climate change on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the same day the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 2015 Paris Agreement entered into force for the Holy See.

The two events Oct. 4 helped mark the feast of the patron saint of animals and ecology, and the namesake of Pope Francis.

The Vatican became a formal party to the U.N. convention in July and declared at the same time that it intended also to formally join the 2015 Paris Agreement.

“Both documents will enter into force for the Holy See, in the name and on behalf of the Vatican City State, on 4 October 2022, the Solemnity of St. Francis,” said a joint statement by the pontifical academies of Sciences and Social Sciences and the Vatican Secretariat of State’s section for relations with states.

It was the same day a new film was launched at the Vatican for the world premiere of “The Letter: A Message For Our Earth,”“Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.”

Presented by YouTube Originals, the film was written and directed by Emmy-winner Nicolas Brown and produced by the Oscar-winning production company “Off the Fence.” It was made in partnership with the Laudato Si’ Movement, the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Dicastery for Communication.

[BenLurkin]

Who invited Bird Man?

[TigersEye]

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[neverevergiveup]

This Pope seems self-righteous, angry, and arrogant to me.

[G Larry]

Hint: St. Francis of Assisi did not worship the earth, nor assert that mankind was in control of the climate.

[MMusson]

Shouldn’t you go hungry on a Green ‘feast day’?
Shouldn’t you turn off the lights and stay home?

[ebb tide]

Bergoglio only pimps his own heterodox crap while ignoring his pre-VCII Catholic predecessors.

[neverevergiveup]

If I had to guess, I would guess that Bergoglio is not a true believer and instead is a ‘spiritual secularist agnostic’ who believes that there maybe is a God, but that if there is a God that God is remote from us and that human beings must make due without God. In that context, and in desiring to be thought of as the ‘intellectual’ Vicar he is following what he THINKS is science and trying to be loved by those he THINKS to be the intelligentsia.

To him, I conjecture, the Papacy is a bully pulpit from which he can push for what he sees as social justice. I think he wants to do good, but is delusional about what good really is.