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Pope Francis calls for Catholics to ‘pray for the cry of the Earth,’ says it ‘has a fever’
LifeSite News ^ | August 30, 2024 | Michael Haynes

Posted on 08/31/2024 3:16:48 PM PDT by ebb tide

Pope Francis calls for Catholics to ‘pray for the cry of the Earth,’ says it ‘has a fever’

‘We pray that each of us will listen with the heart to the cry of the Earth,’ Pope Francis said in a new video, claiming that ‘if we took the planet’s temperature, it will us that the Earth has a fever. And it is sick, just like anyone who’s sick.’


Pope Francis calls for ecological concern in his Pope Video.

This September, Pope Francis has urged members of the Catholic Church to “pray for the cry of the Earth” and “the victims of environmental disasters and the climate crisis.”

“We pray that each of us will listen with the heart to the cry of the Earth and the victims of environmental disasters and the climate crisis, committing ourselves personally to guarding the world we inhabit,” the Pope’s prayer intention for September begins.

READ: Spitting in the face of Ugandan martyrs: Pope Francis massively pushing LGBTQ in Africa

Each month a prayer intention and accompanying video is posted by the Pope Video network, in which Pope Francis issues a specific prayer intention for the coming weeks.

To coincide with the month-long period designated as the “Season of Creation,” which runs from September 1 through October 4, Francis’ September intention focusses on ecological issues.

Entitled “for the cry of the earth,” the papal message remarks that “if we took the planet’s temperature, it will tell us that the Earth has a fever. And it is sick, just like anyone who’s sick.”

“But are we listening to this pain? Do we hear the pain of the millions of victims of environmental catastrophes?” it adds.

However, numerous scientific experts, such as Nobel Prize winner Dr. John Clauser of the CO2 Coalition, have refuted mainstream alarmist climate claims, such as those promoted by Pope Francis, and denied that there is a “climate crisis.”

READ: Nobel Prize winner denounces alarmist climate predictions: ‘I don’t believe there is a climate crisis’

Continuing, Francis urged that people “commit ourselves to the fight against poverty and the protection of nature, changing our personal and community habits.”

In press release details accompanying the Pope’s video, the World Economic Forum’s climate statistics were cited to highlight Francis’ ecological message.

Echoing Francis’ message was Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, which was established by the pope in January 2017. “Creation is groaning,” said Czerny.

He linked the Pope’s call for ecological attention to personal freedom, stating that it is “only by liberating the Earth from the condition of slavery to which we have subjected it can we liberate ourselves as well, anticipating the joy of our salvation in Christ.”

Francis has made the topic of “climate change” a central one in the 11 years of his pontificate. He has also often invoked the term “ecological debt,” taking aim at wealthy or Western nations for allegedly disproportionately impacting “climate change.”

READ: Pope Francis is subverting faith to the all-consuming ideology of ‘climate change’

Supporting his regular statements on the topic are his two lengthy texts. The first was Laudato Si’ issued in 2015, which gave rise to the Laudato Si’ Movement – a group aiming to “turn Pope Francis’ encyclical letter Laudato Si’ into action for climate and ecological justice,” as the mass divestment from “fossil fuels” is inspired by the Pontiff’s environmental writings.

The second papal text was Laudate Deum in 2023, in which Francis issued stark calls for “obligatory” measures across the globe to address the issue of “climate change.”

The Pope has also made numerous calls to action for global leaders to implement the pro-abortion Paris Climate Agreement, citing the “negative effects of climate change” and an “ecological debt” which required “climate finance, decarbonization in the economic system and in people’s lives.”

READ: How global warming alarmism is being used to promote population control and abortion

In a CBS TV interview earlier this year, Francis went so far as to state that the world was at a “a point of no return.”

“Global warming is a serious problem. Climate change at this moment is a road to death. A road to death, eh,” he said.

However, the Pope has previously been corrected by scientists who attest that he “is getting terrible advice from some exalted churchmen who are seriously deficient in scientific knowledge.” While echoing Francis’ concerns that nature should not be treated with wanton disregard, independent climate researchers Tomas Sheahen and Hal Doiron warned that the Vatican was weighing into a debate on which it did not have the necessary expertise.

“The correct answer is clearly not a settled science on which Pope Francis can confidently rely for the definition of when CO2 emissions become a sin,” Doiron told LifeSiteNews in 2016.

After many years of climate alarmism rhetoric from the Pontiff, in 2022 the Vatican officially joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the pro-abortion Paris Climate Agreement. 

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events
KEYWORDS: carbonpropaganda; climatehoax; fakescience; frankenchurch; morepopenews; pachamamapope; treehugger
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1 posted on 08/31/2024 3:16:48 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: Al Hitan; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; kalee; markomalley; miele man; Mrs. Don-o; ...

Ping


2 posted on 08/31/2024 3:17:24 PM PDT by ebb tide ("The Spirit of Vatican II" is nothing more than a wicked "idealogy" of the modernists.)
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To: ebb tide

Friggen Pagan arsehole fake pope.


3 posted on 08/31/2024 3:18:15 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: ebb tide

Algiers is pope now ???


4 posted on 08/31/2024 3:19:15 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: ebb tide

I’m all for good stewardship of the earth, but I will never worship it, I will only worship the God who created it.


5 posted on 08/31/2024 3:20:06 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Stupid phone

Algore is pope now ???


6 posted on 08/31/2024 3:20:39 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: ebb tide

How many people has this buffoon led to Christ? Zero?


7 posted on 08/31/2024 3:20:51 PM PDT by alstewartfan (Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
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To: ebb tide

Quoting the prophet Algore.


8 posted on 08/31/2024 3:21:47 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: ebb tide

He’s an evil maniac.


9 posted on 08/31/2024 3:22:29 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: ebb tide

No prayers for the 113,000 unborn babies who are murdered daily around the world?

What a LOSER!!!


10 posted on 08/31/2024 3:23:01 PM PDT by HypatiaTaught ( Born Free, Live Free, Die Free)
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To: ebb tide

How, exactly, do you “take the Earth’s temperature,” Frank?

What is the current “temperature” of Earth?

What should it be?


11 posted on 08/31/2024 3:23:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

F U Francis. Jesuit POS!!!


12 posted on 08/31/2024 3:24:00 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ebb tide

It’s the pope who has the fever.


13 posted on 08/31/2024 3:24:30 PM PDT by Dave911
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To: ebb tide

Pope Marx has a fascist fever.


14 posted on 08/31/2024 3:26:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ebb tide

Do wild bears poop in the woods?
Is the Pope a Communist?


15 posted on 08/31/2024 3:28:23 PM PDT by 230FMJ (From my cold, dead hands.)
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To: ebb tide

I think we need to arrange a meeting between Pope Frankie and the Wicker Man to sort out Frankie’s paganism fetish


16 posted on 08/31/2024 3:29:34 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: alstewartfan

“How many people has this buffoon led to Christ? Zero?”

I would say that number is in the negative column. He very likely drove many, many people away.

He has made a mockery of the faith. But the Cardinals and Bishops have not gotten rid of him. Or marginalized him or neutralized him, so they are culpable too.


17 posted on 08/31/2024 3:30:20 PM PDT by Thorium90
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To: ebb tide

Francis is not a biologist.


18 posted on 08/31/2024 3:31:00 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: ebb tide

Martin Luther was right.


19 posted on 08/31/2024 3:32:04 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: ebb tide

As a Catholic, I refuse to acknowledge anything to this man.


20 posted on 08/31/2024 3:32:34 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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