Posted on 04/16/2015 10:51:29 AM PDT by FR_addict
The Vatican announced Tuesday that it will host a major conference on climate change on April 28, featuring some of the world’s leading climate scientists and an opening address by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The conference, Protect the Earth, Dignify Humanity: The Moral Dimensions of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, will also feature Jeffrey Sachs, a prominent American economist and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
The summit hopes to “help build a global movement across all religions for sustainable development and climate change throughout 2015 and beyond,” and to highlight “the intrinsic connection between respect for the environment and respect for people—especially the poor, the excluded, victims of human trafficking and modern slavery, children and future generations,” says the Vatican.
The one-day summit will also include participants from major world religions and aims to “elevate the debate on the moral dimensions of protecting the environment in advance of the papal encyclical,” the Vatican says. The Pope’s much-anticipated encyclical on the environment is scheduled for release this summer. Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, a top Vatican official who is leading the drafting process of Francis’ encyclical on the environment, will also speak at the conference. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at ecowatch.com ...
Both punishments allowed by God.
With all due respect, this guy just needs to Shut Up and Pope.
” Aren’t all Jesuits Catholics?”
Yeah, but not all Catholics are Jesuits, thank God for small favors : )
Yes we are. I totally agree. We can all be fallible and full of crap at times. This is true.
As all men and women are.
Don’t you mean...
Get off the pot or pope?
Nothing wrong with Catholics, but Jesuits are often Marxists/communists.
Aren’t all Jesuits Catholics? Francis is a Jesuit, I hear tell.
your point being exactly what...???
Nimrod:
@ 24:00 min
http://www.hallindsey.com/videos/hal-lindsey-report-4102015/421/
That was my point.
It violates everything about my faith that I was ever taught to believe that mortal men can exert control over God’s climate.
All Jesuits are Catholics, but not all Catholics are Jesuits.
And not all Jesuits are Marxists (my late great-uncle being a sterling example)
That would put the authority of Scripture above the authority of “the church”.
Scripture’s pretty clear on this particular topic -
Gen 8:22
22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Popes are VERY fallible.
And full of crap at times.
I say this as a Catholic.
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Catholics are VERY fallible.
And full of crap at times.
I say this as a non-Catholic.
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Humans are VERY fallible.
And full of crap at times.
I say this as a non-human!
;-)
Hard to keep track of which Catholics are just Catholics on FR.
totally agree.
And not all Jesuits are Marxists (my late great-uncle being a sterling example)
BUT all Communists are socialists...
Coming next: The Moral Dimensions of Unicorn Farts.
Or...
The Moral Dementia of Climate Change
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