I can’t see that message sitting well with Sullivan County (or neighboring) parishoners. Either it must’ve been forced from on high or your pastor is unbelievably tone deaf.
(Or that part of the world has changed...and not for the good)
Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM) = the usual suspects, the Francis-appointees now wearing the Science hats. Some of them are true wolves of the most dangerous sort, e.g. the world-population-controller Jeffrey Sachs.
The Catholic Climate Covenant= the USCCB. Some of them are Junior Wolves, alumni or the Catholics-for-Obama machine.
So it was definitely handed on by the lowerarchy on high.
However, our parish also has JPIC committee (Justice,Peace and the Integrity of Creation ---meaning, Erf-sim) and these are parishoners who mostly-guileless True Believers. I see some of these good ladies at Adoration and at St. Vincent de Paul.
AS for my esteemed Fr. Pete? Well, as pastor, he has full responsibility to go along or not-go-along with the hints and shoves from Knoxville, Washington, DC. and Brussels-on-the-Tiber.
We have a genuinely respectful mutual relationship and I don't expect any bad repercussions. I do hope it opens up new levels of dialogue. He is a good listener, honest, and not, I think, a clerical careerist nor a smarmy equivocating peronist.
Well, we shall see. All this is a learning experience for me, too.
Pray, and keep praying.