Posted on 12/29/2014 1:02:45 PM PST by bestintxas
He has been called the “superman pope”, and it would be hard to deny that Pope Francis has had a good December. Cited by President Barack Obama as a key player in the thawing relations between the US and Cuba, the Argentinian pontiff followed that by lecturing his cardinals on the need to clean up Vatican politics. But can Francis achieve a feat that has so far eluded secular powers and inspire decisive action on climate change?
It looks as if he will give it a go. In 2015, the pope will issue a lengthy message on the subject to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, give an address to the UN general assembly and call a summit of the world’s main religions.
The reason for such frenetic activity, says Bishop Marcelo Sorondo, chancellor of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, is the pope’s wish to directly influence next year’s crucial UN climate meeting in Paris, when countries will try to conclude 20 years of fraught negotiations with a universal commitment to reduce emissions.
“Our academics supported the pope’s initiative to influence next year’s crucial decisions,” Sorondo told Cafod, the Catholic development agency, at a meeting in London. “The idea is to convene a meeting with leaders of the main religions to make all people aware of the state of our climate and the tragedy of social exclusion.”
Following a visit in March to Tacloban, the Philippine city devastated in 2012 by typhoon Haiyan, the pope will publish a rare encyclical on climate change and human ecology. Urging all Catholics to take action on moral and scientific grounds, the document will be sent to the world’s 5,000 Catholic bishops and 400,000 priests, who will distribute it to parishioners.
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Sadly, his edict soliciting mitigation of global warming is misplaced. Warming trends will only help those needing to grow crops and open up vast areas of the world like Siberia to become more temperate and able to support a higher density of population.
I quit.
Beware what the leftist Guardian claims.
I’ll wait to see what the Pope actually says.
As one who is raised a Catholic (before the church left me), I state that the pope is an idiot.
It is a total mystery why the democrat party wins the Catholic vote.
Just kidding.
These guys would burn people at the stake if you thought the Earth was not flat!!!
The ancient becomes modern. Man is still trying to affect the weather. Global warming nonsense is just the modern rain dance.
Pope has lots of stuff to pawn to help fund the “fight”.
Frankly, I never joined in the first place.
One way to fight global warming would be for Ayatollah al-Faranhziz to STFU.
Again, the following for any warmunist regardless of religious following:
Here is a simple way to get overloaded by the warmunists.
1. Define the “correct” temperature range for the planet.
2. Define the “correct” humidity range for the planet.
3. Define the “correct” mean sea level for the planet’
4. Define the “correct” amount of precipitation for the planet.
5. Define the “correct” makeup of the atmosphere.
6. Define the “correct” amount of sea ice at the N/S poles.
7. Define/explain past glaciation and subsequent warming without any input from humans.
This pope is clearly an imbecile.
I’m a Catholic, can I say that?
Urging all Catholics to take action on moral and scientific grounds, the document will be sent
to the world’s 5,000 Catholic bishops and 400,000 priests, who will distribute it to parishioners.
Here, you can read the future with your own lying eyes.
Why? Isn’t the earth eventually to be consumed in a lake of fire? Why fight the inevitable?
Dear Mr. Pope: you can help by eliminating a major source of hot air. shut your pie hole.
Since the U.S. is ALWAYS the UN’s first target, all US taxpayer dollars to that rag tag outfit must be stopped.
The Pope obviously has little scientific knowledge. Nor does he seem up on how this world works (the UN is worthless at best Abd just an islamoNazi propaganda mill at worst- it can do nothing about the climate of anything else). Pray that the Holy Father receives better insight about matters spiritual.
So you have read the yet unreleased encyclical? Has anyone?
The Vicar of Christ right there. Shouldn’t this call into question the whole doctrine of popery?
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