Posted on 06/24/2020 5:33:16 PM PDT by marshmallow
The new book will serve as a manual for implementing environmental and social change.
Five years after the release of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical, “Laudato si’,” the Vatican has renewed its call to action, imploring Catholics to divest themselves from all fossil fuel-related investments. The directives were published in a new book, Journeying Towards Care for Our Common Home, which will act as a manual for implementing the pope’s environmental initiatives.
Gerard O’Connell of America Magazine reports that the book was announced by Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States, in a June 18 press conference. The prelate described the text as:
“… a road map for the post-Covid-19 world.” He said it includes “so many great stories from all corners of the globe and all sectors of the church,” including the movement he leads, that illustrate ways in which the encyclical is already being implemented across the world.
The new publication suggests that investors should keep Catholic social teachings in mind, and should avoid supporting companies that “do not satisfy certain parameters.” Reuters notes that these include companies that have shown disrespect for human rights, employ child labor, or show little concern for the environment.
Journeying Towards Care for Our Common Home also asks the faithful to remain vigilant in their monitoring of organizations that extract resources from the environment. The book then calls on Catholics to “shun companies that are harmful to human or social ecology, such as abortion and armaments, and to the environment, such as fossil fuels.”
(Excerpt) Read more at aleteia.org ...
Yeah ok. Right on it.
Tell Pope Gomer Pyle I to kiss my........ring.
Sounds like folks need to divest from the Vatican.
The guy with one of the largest walls ever built, tells us that walls are evil.
His church has more gas guzzling planes and cars than all the other churches combined. Now he says we should not be using fossil fuels..
Of all the things Jesus had distain for, hypocrisy was the worst.
He got on this bandwagon right after a visit from Obama.
Like so many other clueless morons, there is no such thing as a fossil fuel.
Apparently there is such a thing as a fossil fool.
I wonder how Francis transported all his Amazonian Indians and their pachamama idols to Rome for his Amazonian Synond.
By canoes?
Hasn’t the Vatican proved itself inept with investment advice? The hubris is deafening.
P.S. May I suggest the LCMS, my family has not regret the switch we made 20 years ago.
Wow. Cool
True.
Im sure youd love it. Used to go every wednesday.
Good, light your farts for heat and light.
I’m OK with the Vatican divesting of fossil fuels. But no so-called pope is going to tell me what to do.
The Pope charters a plane from Alitalia when he travels; he doesn't have a personal airplane. The Vatican might have a helicopter for the Pope to travel around Rome. but that's it. It's possible that an institution like Notre Dame has an airplane of its own, but that belongs to Notre Dame, not the church.
As for cars, diocesan priests and probably most bishops pay for their own cars out of their own pockets.
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