Posted on 01/18/2015 3:38:10 PM PST by SkyPilot
MANILA — Pope Francis waded into the global debate on climate change and the environment on Sunday, saying in the text of a speech that man was destroying nature and betraying God's calling to be stewards of creation.
Francis offered his thoughts about the environment and climate change for the second time in four days at a rally with young people at a Manila university on the last full day of a week-long Asian tour that has taken him to Sri Lanka and the Philippines.
He did not read all of a speech prepared for delivery at the university, improvising after he was moved by the story of an abandoned girl. When he does this, the Vatican says the prepared text is official.
"As stewards of God’s creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family. When we destroy our forests, ravage our soil and pollute our seas, we
betray that noble calling," he said in the text.
Another line he read to the crowd noted that "this country, more than many others, is likely to be seriously affected by climate change".
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Romans 1:25
Where is the Real Pope?
This clown is obviously a Occupy Now plant.
So every time we build a road or clear off an acre for a house, we are committing a sin?
How much sin was created building all of those huge Catholic churches?
Or jetting to South America.
He should have ridden a donkey to the shore and taken a saing ship.
All the love this guy is getting from the commie liberals, the Islamofascists and the atheists seems to be going to his head.
What the hell?
Where is the “l”?
So what is his answer? Arrest every person who attended the Obama inaugurations? They trashed the Mall. How about the Wisconsin union goons who destroyed Capitol property? If these cretins are put in the slammer, the earth will breathe easier for sure.
The Pope.
He sure loves the Kool-Aid.
This Pope sucks.
The only thing I will say is HE is probably not pleased with a lot of the pollution and destrution of forests and things; we are the stewards...
His new name is “Pope Warren-Osteen I”.
The pope actually says something I agree with—and Freepers are trashing him? Does man not have dominion over animals, and does that not suggest a custodial relationship?
I don’t get what’s got people going over this.
I am Cornholio I!
he’s on a roll
The False Prophet is moving fast.
This Pope is going to get millions killed by pushing the anthropogenic global warming scam. Many will die from the oppression and direct actions of states using this Marxist dream and many more will simply die of starvation because cheap food production will be reduced or ended.
You betray god by pretending to be a god or god like in powers. And our fate has been sealed. All that remains is the monument building and the ephitat writing.
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