Posted on 09/02/2016 5:29:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
September 1, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — In his message for the celebration of World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation today, Pope Francis called on Catholics to go to confession for sins of not being respectful of creation, giving examples of examination of conscience such as “avoiding the use of plastic and paper,” “separating refuse” and “turning off unnecessary lights.” He called on Catholics to have an “ecological conversion.”
Recalling the year 2000 act of public repentance by Pope John Paul II for sins of “religious intolerance, as well as for injustice toward Jews, women, indigenous peoples, immigrants, the poor and the unborn,” Pope Francis suggested public repentance by the Church for environmental sins. “Let us repent of the harm we are doing to our common home,” he said.
The papal message takes as fact questionable climate change extremism as did his encyclical Laudato Si released in June 2015. In the message released today, Francis speaks of “devastation of the environment” and man-made “global warming” and “climate change.”
“God gave us a bountiful garden, but we have turned it into a polluted wasteland of ‘debris, desolation, and filth,’” he said. He warned of the “loss of biodiversity and the destruction of ecosystems, often caused by our irresponsible and selfish behavior.”
“Global warming continues, due in part to human activity: 2015 was the warmest year on record, and 2016 will likely be warmer still,” he wrote.
The Pope also proposed adding to the centuries-old tradition of the seven Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy an eighth in each list:
As a spiritual work of mercy, care for our common home calls for a “grateful contemplation of God’s world” (Laudato Si’, 214) which “allows us to discover in each thing a teaching which God wishes to hand on to......
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this is a sick poppy err puppy
In olden times he’d have long ago had an ‘accident’.
Sure thing - I’ll start the second Tuesday of next week.
Where’s Savonarola when we need him?
Poop Francis is at it again.
Sooo, what's the penance for burning old tires in my backyard?
Nothing for Nothing, I am a Practicing Roman Catholic, and this guy is a Effin’ Jerkoff!
The Pope has jumped the shark.
SAVE THE PEOPLE - NOT THE PLANET
Is this satire> Wow. Someone take this guy’s pope mobile away from him for being filled with petroleum products. You can’t make this stuff up.
Yes, I am Catholic, but in my mind I have become a cafeteria-Catholic because of this Argentinian backpacker.
“Global warming continues, due in part to human activity: 2015 was the warmest year on record, and 2016 will likely be warmer still,” he wrote.”
Finally, Global Warming is getting recognized as a Religion.
Can the Cardinals eject him?
“this is a sick poppy err puppy”
Please don’t insult puppies.
The Clown in White
In a pig’s ear.
Any Borgias out there?
Words of wisdom right there, man.
I'm just sayin'.
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