Posted on 09/03/2020 5:43:39 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME — Pope Francis thanked a group of French ecologists in the Vatican Thursday for their efforts to “save the environment,” which is undergoing a “disturbing degradation.”
“While the state of the planet may seem catastrophic and some situations even seem irreversible, we Christians always keep hope, because our eyes are turned to Jesus Christ,” the pope told the group of participants in an academic conference devoted to his 2015 encyclical letter on the environment, Laudato Sì.
Mistreating the world “can only lead to serious consequences, not only environmental, but also social and human,” Francis told them.
“It is fortunate that an awareness of the urgency of the situation is now appearing everywhere and that the theme of ecology more and more permeates mentalities at all levels and begins to have an influence on political and economic choices,” the pontiff declared, “even if there is still much to do and if we are witnessing too much slowness and even backtracking.”
The pope said that the role of the Catholic church in the environmental cause is not technical or economic, but consists in “educating consciences to promote a deep and lasting ecological conversion.”
An ecological conversion, he reiterated, is “the only one capable of responding to the important challenges facing us.”
Man is called to be a steward of creation, not “the owner or the despot,” Francis said. “When one considers nature only as an object of profit and interest — a vision that consolidates the will of the strongest — then harmony is broken and serious inequalities, injustices, and suffering appear.”
It is the “same indifference, the same selfishness, the same greed, the same pride, the same pretension of believing oneself the master and the despot of the world,” Francis said, that leads people “to exploit poverty, abuse.......
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The Pope is a Dope.
Marxism always causes ecological disaster.
I guess Frankie has that whole saving souls thing all done, so he can focus on the Climate Hustle.
He can go whine to Winnie Xi Pooh.
I don’t know one Catholic who respects this pope.
I don’t know one Catholic who respects this pope.
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This Catholic thinks the “pope” is catastrophic.
Ruining the Curch.
My wife is unshakeable in her faith, but Francis gives her the chills.
That’s the plan.
He moans about pollution but falls over backwards to accommodate the totalitarian chicoms.
More like his character disorder.
Pope Soros is not Catholic.
Hi.
I will not say the Pope is a dope.
I do not care for soap on a rope.
Do you care the Pope is woke
I do not care if the Pope is woke
What if the Pope is a woke dope
I do not care if Pope slips on the soap.
5.56mm
I guess we survived the Borgias. Maybe we can survive this clown.
Rather, the Catholic Church is in catastrophic state due to Pope Francis.
I’m sorry der Faddah, but yer a bit loopy.
The Pope is a mental midget. He has no faith in God Almighty.
The “planet” is in a catastrophic state due to an idiot being “elected” to lead the Catholic church.
The role of the Catholic Church is the salvation of souls. Period.
If only this pope could realize it.
No, he is not a dope. He knows what he is doing. Hell bent on destruction, making explicit what was implied in all of this post VC II era.
But it does not shake my Faith. It just makes me wonder what God is up to by allowing this evil and suffering to continue. He always brings a greater good out of evil.
So we can look forward to a great victory, but I cannot tell you what it looks like.
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