Posted on 10/05/2023 9:24:12 AM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Francis’ new apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum (Praise God), is a personal, impassioned public-policy plea for action on the “climate crisis.”
Laudate Deum was issued on Oct. 4, feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Less than 8,000 words in English, it is written in the style of a political manifesto rather than a magisterial document. Given that the original language was Spanish, not Italian, it can be presumed that Pope Francis took a direct hand in its drafting.
Pope Francis makes definitive declarations on climate science, predictions about future weather-related disasters, offers analysis of United Nations’ climate conferences, expresses frustration with policy choices and makes a key diplomatic choice of his own. He explicitly mentions China in order to make it clear that he is not expecting action from Beijing, the single largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
Magisterial documents on social doctrine articulate principles, rather than specific policy measures. On scientific matters, it has been 400 years — during the Galileo affair — since Roman authorities took such specific positions on scientific matters. Laudate Deum itself does not offer a rationale for magisterial pronouncement on climatological scientific research, but asserts that such scientific results are “indisputable.”
Some critics will dismiss Laudate Deum as a document more fitting to the U.N. secretary-general, an epistolary emission from the vicar of climate rather than the Vicar of Christ.
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The explicit call of Laudate Deum is for political action. Indeed, the press conference presenting the exhortation will be made up not of pastors or theologians, but political actors, including an environmental activist, photographer and film director who serves as a “U.N. ambassador for climate.”
Ping
Call for action because sky is green.
Doesn’t specify the action?
The Pope has embraced the climate change cult religion. Perhaps it is time again for someone of sense to nail 95 theses to the Vatican door.
Pope is getting (heck, he was since ever!) involved in stuff he has zero expertise.
Every time Popes got involved in politics, bad things happened!
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