Posted on 09/23/2015 3:40:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON - Pope Francis on Wednesday urged the United States to help tackle climate change and touched on other divisive U.S. political issues such as immigration and economic inequality on his first visit to the world's richest nation.
In a speech on the White House South Lawn on the first full day of his U.S. trip, the Argentine pontiff lauded President Barack Obama's efforts to reduce air pollution, months after Francis made the environment one of his top concerns by issuing a landmark encyclical letter to the church.
"It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation. When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history," the pope said at a welcoming ceremony.
In an era of renewed racial tensions in the country, the 78-year-old pope invoked America's best-known civil rights leader, the late Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., to make points about the environment and equality.
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We already are fighting the meme of Climate Change.
“A waste of breath ......If he wants to REALLY make a world impact , take on the whole sale murder of Christians by ISIS .... But that would take courage!”
He was too busy explaining how the holy Bible and the koran were the same thing.
Will he be celebrating the mass in Arabic?
I’ll guess that rampant abortion and homosexuality work with his climate ideology, to keep human population down.
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