[ebb tide]

Even the soil in which the tree was planted came steeped in significance. There was soil from the Amazon, celebrating the wealth of the bioregion’s cultures and traditions; earth from India, representing countries most vulnerable to the climate crisis, where droughts and floods leave millions devastated; soil representing refugees and migrants, forced to leave their homes because of war, poverty, and ecological devastation. There was earth from places of human trafficking, and from sustainable development projects around the world. And there was more soil from the Amazon, earth bathed in the blood of those who have died fighting against its destruction.

What? No soil from the Holy Land, bathed in the blood of Jesus Christ? The Christ who offered His life for man's salvagtion? No soil from Vienna, bathed in the blood of Christian soldiers defending Europe from the godless muslims?

[ebb tide]

Ping

[Ciaphas Cain]

To paraphrase Fred Thompson's character from The Hunt For Red October:

"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and the Catholic Church will be lucky to live through it."

[Telepathic Intruder]

More climate and diversity worship from his holiness. Sort of makes Jesus look like a science-denying xenophobe for mentioning nothing about it.

[SaxxonWoods]

Ugh. This is getting painful to follow.

[dontreadthis]

[BlessedBeGod]

There was soil from the Amazon, celebrating the wealth of the bioregion’s cultures and traditions; earth from India, representing countries most vulnerable to the climate crisis, where droughts and floods leave millions devastated; soil representing refugees and migrants, forced to leave their homes because of war, poverty, and ecological devastation. There was earth from places of human trafficking, and from sustainable development projects around the world. And there was more soil from the Amazon, earth bathed in the blood of those who have died fighting against its destruction.

Was that soil quarantined when it came into the country? How do they know it doesn't contain something that will infect the soil around it and cause problems for humans and wildlife?