Posted on 12/13/2019 6:51:17 PM PST by marshmallow
ROME - On Thursday top Vatican officials hailed Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, recently named TIME Magazine’s “Person of the Year” for her environmental advocacy, as a “great witness” of Church teaching on care for creation and the human person.
Speaking to reporters at the Dec. 12 publication of Pope Francis’s message for the 2020 World Day of Peace, celebrated on Jan. 1 each year, Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Vatican office for Integral Human Development, called Thunberg “a great witness to what the Church teaches on the care of the environment and the care of the person.”
“What is her objective? Skipping school for a future, a future that can’t be guaranteed because there is no care for the environment,” he said, adding that in many cases, there is a complete lack of coherence between the international policies on the environment and what children are told.
Asked whether she was a model of the “ecological conversion” Francis calls for in the message, Turkson said that “model” was not the right word, but insisted that her activism brings attention to the Church’s insistence that “attention to the poor and society also coincide with care for the environment, the common home.”
“It’s a coherence with the Church’s teaching,” he said, adding that care of the environment is also a matter of faith.
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In Johnny Appleseed’s name, we pray for a cleaner more plant-friendly earth and to hell with the humans.
Scoldilocks told cheering protesters today “we will make sure we put world leaders against the wall” if they fail to take urgent action on global warming.
Threatening world leaders, eh?
Sounds like this KGB/liberation theology spreading pope will make Greta Thunderberg his new prophetess, at least until she becomes less profitable.
She would have to die first, wouldn’t she? Declaring a living person a saint would be too much even for this pope.
So pope socialista is enamored of another Gaia worshiper, only one problem a Pope is supposed to worship only one God and it ain’t Gaia, oh well nothing new for the heretic I suppose.
I may puke.
Most Swedes are not even religious. She probably is an atheist. Like the Pope.
Ha! This one's right up there with Lieawatha and Fauxcahontas.
I would say that there probably aren’t very many religious people belonging or associating with Antifa.
I bet she doesn't even have a duck like most Swedes...
That would be the first time in Greta’s life she had any ..... animal-based protein.
ROFLMAO!!
I kinda regretted posting that right after I did.
Thanks for following up in glaring fashion :)
That was FUNNY!
The kid is starving. Her parents probably won’t even let her eat herring.
LOL
I can’t have any pity after that “how..you” thing.
I can’t even say the whole thing without ####ning throwing up in my mouth.
How can anyone be Catholic anymore?
Lol.
These jesuits are really dangerous at this time.
If you drink from her chalice it will be said of you, “He didn’t choose wisely”
No pity but, sheesh!, reindeer probably eat better than she does.
Her parents could at least toss a cup of grain w/molasses in her hay.
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