Posted on 07/05/2025 6:50:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Vatican steps up battle against climate change, especially since it can dramatically harm the “most vulnerable” people.
Vatican City • As record‑breaking heat scorches much of Europe — with triple‑digit temperatures, wildfires and deaths reported — the Vatican released a new liturgy Thursday for Mass reflecting concern for the environment, offering prayers, readings and hymns that highlight the church’s responsibility to protect the Earth.
This new Mass “can be used to ask God for the ability to care for creation,” Cardinal Michael Czerny, who heads the Vatican’s Dicastery for Integral Human Development, said at a news conference.
The new Mass, Pro Custodia Creationis (For the Care of Creation), was initially ordered by Pope Francis, who made the environment a major theme of his papacy and the subject of his second encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” subtitled “On Care for Our Common Home,” in 2015.
Pope Leo XIV has signaled that creation care will be a key area of interest for him as well and a point of continuity between Leo and his predecessors on social issues, especially the environment. Leo will celebrate the new Mass privately Wednesday at the Borgo Laudato Si’, an eco-village Francis commissioned in the gardens of the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo.
Pro Custodia Creationis will be added to the existing list of 17 Masses for special civil needs, which also include Masses for the harvest, rain and migrants, and it’s inspired by Francis’ “green” encyclical, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
A collaboration between Czerny’s department, which is concerned in part with how climate change impacts vulnerable populations, and the Dicastery for Divine Worship, the new Mass is also inspired by St. John Paul II’s message for the World Day of Peace in 1990, which emphasized the relationship between humanity and...
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I was starting to like Leo 14, thinking I had misjudged him before I gave him a chance.
Me too.
God is still in charge.
“”This new Mass “can be used to ask God for the ability to care for creation,”””
Does that “care for creation” also extend to the creation of human infants in the womb? If so, we already have that ability. It’s just not being utilized.
Vatican City needs to end all use of electricity inside the walls—forever.
Then they can talk to us about how much they care about “climate change”.
Oh, great. This world has many problems. For one thing, Christians are being persecuted in many places. And that includes being murdering, solely because of their faith.
So why not instead concentrate on a problem that doesn’t even exist?
Think about it for a minute, Leo. There are mountains of evidence *against* man-made climate change.
Yet that evidence is suppressed. Discussion of such evidence is prohibited. That’s a rather fascist approach, eh Leo?
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I think you’ll find the Catholic Church gave it’s office to preserve Scripture and represent the faith some time ago.
“”I was starting to like Leo 14, thinking I had misjudged him before I gave him a chance.””
He was hand-picked and chosen by the previous pretender. He’s from Chicago. There were signs that he would be the same or maybe even worse. Only thing needed is time, but it will all be revealed. Clearly.
I guess saving souls is not where it’s at anymore.
I’m somewhat withholding judgement until I see the prayers them selves, while I don’t agree in this context another votive Mass is needed. The prayers themselves may be worded in such a way as to be comparable to a Mass said for the grace to clean ones room.
Trite as that request is, its not overtly heretical in content.
But we shall see with the text.
Right. All politics, nothing about saving souls.
Leo, Leo, Leo...shaddupa you face!
Continue to do so, is my advice. A Mass for the care of creation is not the same as a Mass for “climate change.” We are indeed charged with being good stewards of the earth. For example, are you against forest management? Are you against crop rotation?
Jesus said (paraphrase), 'be hot or cold - the lukewarm I vomit'. The RCC and many other denominations today sadly proclaim a lukewarm or cold gospel message.
We don't have enough proof. So no one shouldn't be saying anything.
Even if "man-made climate change" is real, we shouldn't stop our standard of living just so we can go back to what it was like in 1800.
The Elites will be able to buy carbon offset credits so they won't be affected by their policies.
Even if it is real, what the US contributes to it is a drop in the bucket compared to China and India.
I guess a church can discuss governmental policy with its parishioners as long as the message does not conflict with same.
“Pope Leo XIV has signaled that creation care will be a key area of interest for him as well and a point of continuity between Leo and his predecessors on social issues, especially the environment.” I’d rather the man just say a prayer for my salvation.
Every bit as clueless about the tenets of Biblical stewardship.
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