Posted on 04/10/2019 7:34:56 PM PDT by marshmallow
Cardinal John Ribat to visit at least 2 parishes in the Diocese of San Bernardino
This coming week Cardinal John Ribat will visit the MSC Community here in California. Forty years ago John Ribat, a young man from Papua New Guinea, made his profession of religious vows as a member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. After being ordained a priest in 1985, he began his ministry as a parish priest in his native country. With a capacity for pastoral leadership, he was made bishop of the Diocese of Bereina. Six years later he became the archbishop of Port Moresby, the nation’s capital.
Cardinal Ribat is anxious to share his concern for the environment and climate change. He has a great appreciation for Pope Francis’ encyclical letter (Laudato Si) on the environment which recognizes the earth as our common home. For Cardinal Ribat, climate change is personal. The climate changes are having a great impact on the people of his native Papua New Guinea. Many of the people in that part of the world live on islands or along coastal land which is near sea level. Rising seas are putting many of the families in danger of losing their homes and land. Some are already experiencing being forced to abandon their homes or are experiencing salt water coming into the wells they depend on for drinking water. He realizes that climate change needs the cooperation of all nations, and he is deeply concerned that the United States has withdrawn from the Paris climate accord. For him and his people climate change is here and now and is disrupting lives and uprooting people.
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Maybe he should just stick to serving Christ and the church instead of expostulating about something he knows nothing about.
Couldn’t have said it better, FRiend.
Merci beaucoup.
Stay in your lane, eminence.
CC
Christ? Sounds more like he's serving Gaia.
Mrs. Don-o, if you wouldn’t mind posting your “Lent by Climate Crisis” letter here...
(it would take me 30 minutes to format...)
my goodness- can you imagine if this cardinal had been around when the mile’s High glaciers were melting and forming the great lakes? He’d have been committed to an insane asylum
“For Cardinal Ribat, climate change is personal.” Oh, how horrible that third world savages are suffering because of climate change. Foolish man pretending to be a Cardinal and pretending to understand geophysics.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
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shouldn’t they be in India and china
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