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Vatican’s official newspaper promotes call to ‘fast’ from fossil fuels during Lent
LifeSite Newy ^ | February 24, 2023 | Michael Haynes

Posted on 02/26/2023 5:45:01 PM PST by ebb tide

Vatican’s official newspaper promotes call to ‘fast’ from fossil fuels during Lent

L’Osservatore Romano interviewed a leader of Italy's Laudatory Si' Movement who urged Catholics to practice 'fasting from gas' during Lent for the climate.

The Vatican’s official newspaper hosted a call for Catholics to fast from using fossil fuels during Lent, an action it describes as being in solidarity with those enduring “cold in Ukraine.” 

In the February 20 edition, L’Osservatore Romano noted how Catholics are being called to use Lent as “a time for reflections and concrete actions such as ‘fasting from gas.’” Additional measures to take included “limiting the use of heaters,” which the newspaper stated would act “not only as a sign of solidarity with Ukrainians and other afflicted peoples, but also to defund the war economy.”

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It aims to “turn Pope Francis’ encyclical letter Laudato Si into action for climate and ecological justice,” the mass divestment from “fossil fuels” is inspired by the pontiff’s environmental writings. This “divestment” is to limit the “catastrophic impacts that could lead to the displacement of hundreds of millions of people” should the earth’s temperature rise by 1.5 degrees Celsius, a level that climate change activists argue could lead to a global crisis.

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TOPICS: Catholic
KEYWORDS: ecofascism; frankenchurch; pachamama; treehuggers
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1 posted on 02/26/2023 5:45:01 PM PST by ebb tide
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2 posted on 02/26/2023 5:45:45 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Poope Soros speaks.


3 posted on 02/26/2023 5:48:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: ebb tide

Food is energy.

Fertilizer is energy.

How about a fast of contributions to the Catholic Church during Lent?


4 posted on 02/26/2023 5:51:08 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: ebb tide

How are they ever going to heat those lavish and hugely popular man love apartments so prominent in the news 6 months ago..


5 posted on 02/26/2023 5:54:07 PM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: ebb tide

Doing my part: power has been out since Wednesday, so we are burning Mr. Buddy heaters and a gas generator. No fridge, furnace, washer, dryer, lamps, etc.

Getting ready for those forced blackouts.


6 posted on 02/26/2023 5:55:36 PM PST by madison10
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To: madison10

Hope you get your power soon. How you managing?


7 posted on 02/26/2023 5:58:28 PM PST by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: ebb tide

So does that mean they will be “fasting” from going to work, driving to the grocers, sending their kids to school on a bus, heating their homes, and doing lots of other things that fossil fuels helps them to do? It’s gonna be a long forty days.


8 posted on 02/26/2023 6:01:14 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: CJ Wolf

It is cold. Not too bad until the sun goes down. The ice storm hit Michigan really hard last Wednesday. There are many people still without power, schools cancelled and lineman working their butts off.

I am over 60 and do not remember ever having one this bad


9 posted on 02/26/2023 6:05:08 PM PST by madison10
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To: ebb tide

Stay in your lane!


10 posted on 02/26/2023 6:05:11 PM PST by No Party Affiliation
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To: CJ Wolf

Thank you for asking.


11 posted on 02/26/2023 6:06:17 PM PST by madison10
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To: ebb tide

Our Marxist Pope, who grew up in a Marxist society - since many of his friends are Marxists - is comfortable with nothing else but Marxism. His secular “opinions” mean nothing except to show that he is “ill advised”.


12 posted on 02/26/2023 6:06:33 PM PST by Dapper 26
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To: ebb tide

Well, according to the eco nazis, fossil fuels will heat up the planet.

That’s means Ukraine would be warm.


13 posted on 02/26/2023 6:07:40 PM PST by fruser1
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To: madison10

Of course.

I went with out power for 14 days. It sucked but it was hot not cold. Got through it. Learnt alot. Lol.

Do Be safe.

Propane space heaters can be tricky inside.


14 posted on 02/26/2023 6:10:37 PM PST by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: ebb tide

Road trip!


15 posted on 02/26/2023 6:13:17 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: ebb tide

When will the Vatican turn off all electricity within the gates?

Their hypocrisy is getting irritating.


16 posted on 02/26/2023 6:13:23 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: ebb tide

A, it’s too cold.
B, I’m not Catholic.


17 posted on 02/26/2023 6:14:25 PM PST by BlackAdderess (Representatives are supposed to represent their constituents, that is their job. )
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To: ebb tide

How about fasting that the pope and Vatican exists for lent?


18 posted on 02/26/2023 6:14:33 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: madison10

Take good care!


19 posted on 02/26/2023 6:16:11 PM PST by BlackAdderess (Representatives are supposed to represent their constituents, that is their job. )
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To: ebb tide

20 posted on 02/26/2023 6:21:11 PM PST by rollo tomasi
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