The following comes from a September 1 Crux article by Inés San Martín:
Insisting that environmental damage such as global warming amounts to a sin against creation, Pope Francis on Thursday once again called on Christians to join forces to protect the earth on what’s ecumenically designated as the “World Day of Prayer for Creation.”
“To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against ourselves and a sin against God,” the pope writes, quoting an address the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew gave in Santa Barbara, California, back in 1997.
In a message released by the Vatican on Thursday, Francis pointed out the “sins” against creation, which include humans destroying the ecosystem and degrading the integrity of the earth by causing changes in its climate, and the contamination of the earth’s waters, land, air, and life.
Keeping in mind both the Holy Year of Mercy and prayer day for creation, celebrated on Sept. 1, Francis on Thursday called for Catholics to add a new work of mercy to the traditional 14: “Care for our common home.”
Francis also calls for the Jubilee of Mercy to summon in the faithful to a “profound interior conversion,” sustained by the sacrament of Confession, writing that after a “serious examination of conscience” Catholics can confess their sins against God and his creation.
Quoting his own Laudato Si’, something he does often in Thursday’s message, the pontiff gives several suggestions: “Avoiding the use of plastic and paper, reducing water consumption, separating refuse, cooking only what can reasonably be consumed, showing care for other living beings, using public transport or car-pooling, planting trees, turning off unnecessary lights, or any number of other practices.”
“New work of mercy added by Pope Francis”….
…..and paid for by George Soros.
May one suggest the reading of https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=1412
Surely His Holiness means “to sin against the Creator by abuse of creation”. You can only sin against persons and the natural world is not a “person”.
Care for our common home can be misunderstood. For example, Laudato Sii is strongly against air conditioning yet it is excellent protection for dengue and Zica. Also Global Warming is caused by the Sun not Man (or Woman), but who am I to judge.
Well, no global warming would not occur if Man did not pour carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Without Man, the sun’s rays would radiate back out into space instead of warming up the atmosphere.
There are geological records of periods of global warming that are older than that of man’s pouring out anything, let alone carbon.
The more you post, YFC, the more evident it becomes that YFC is a collective.
The rampant promotion of ignorance and human-shaming will likely, in future, be the source of myriad comedies to which a truly educated public will laugh uproariously. It’s just not funny now. Much like Nazis weren’t funny in real life, but Colonel Klink was a hoot.
NASA satellite data—data unadjusted by mysterious “climate quotients”— continues to show no “global warming” for over 18 years.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2015/12/17/satellites-show-no-global-warming-for-18-12-years-no-n-pole-warming-for-nearly-14-years-no-s-pole-warming-for-37-years/
And former global-warming alarmist, author of the [fake] “hockey-stick” curve theory of warming, Michael Mann, now says he had it wrong: there is no global warming.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/28/study-the-pause-in-global-warming-is-real/
It’s OK to admit the truth: there is no global warming: it’s all a scam.
Something is very wrong in the above photo. Look closely at the faces of both Pope Francis, right, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I. Perhaps, they too, are realizing how very odd it must look to be asking the world to care for the environment while then throwing objects into the ocean that can pollute the environment and harm sea life. That also looks like white soft styrofoam holding that wreath together.
Are Chrysanthemums Poisonous to Animals?
https://homeguides.sfgate.com/chrysanthemums-poisonous-animals-71347.html
Pagan Rituals
https://www.ladybridget.com/r/junp001.html
good point catherine. although flower memorials seem to have been part of the jewish tradition in Jesus days, from what archeologists can tell us. i wish they has put their holy water and incense to good use to make a nice ecumenical blessing.
Wonder how one might commit a sin by not supporting the theory of global warming? Is driving one’s car a sin? Is heating one’s water or home a sin? Wonder which Commandment might be violated?
I am afraid the Church is collapsing into nonsense starting at the top.
Really? Papal private jet to all parts of the globe whenever & we should car pool? Don’t get me started. I smell a Soros donation. Just in time to help push the environmental globalists into victory mode in the US this November. Doesn’t the Pope realize the people he is in bed with are for zero population growth & after that, reductions in numbers of remaining people in the world any way possible like – abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, war, whatever? You first. Why not give up your jet setting ways first? How about video conferences instead? So sad. And not a word about pro-life. God help us.
Continued……..meanwhile, the works of the church continue thru the good Cardinal Burke. See this 9/1 article @ http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-burke-on-u.s.-bishops-shifting-priorities-life-issues-always-come/
C. Burke wants to shift the USCCB’s priorities back to basics. Cliff note version: Life & family before poverty, immigration, environment. Thanks be to God for a voice of reason at a time like this! Pray.
It is correct to say Pope Francis is promoting the United Nations agenda of no population growth. People bad, Nature good. Abortion in the beginning and Euthanasia at the end; Eugenics in the middle coming soon to your neighborhood. This Pope should return to a Culture of Life doctrine instead of this Cultural Marxism environmental pablum so pleasing to the enemies of the Catholic Church.
CCC 675 “Before Christ’s second coming, the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the “mystery of iniquity” in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.”
Are Catholics then to cut back on holy water usage? Will the font be rationed? Mercy me!
But planting trees requires water, and lots and lots of it for the first two years until the roots are established. Don’t look at me. All the Arboriculturists are doing it.
Just turned my A/C down to 71. I feel kinda naughty.
H, Two Our Fathers and three Hail Marys.
Perhaps a new work of mercy would be not reading any exhortation, encyclical, or writing of any kind by Pope Francis. Nice to see that the Holy Father, and his Zombie-Liberal thugs are busy attacking the brave 49 theologians who asked for clarification to the very troubling, ” Amoris Laetitia.” It will be great to have the SSPX back, assuming that they took all needed precautions to avoid the attack of the Z-L brigade, which will surely come.
I would guess that the Church is one of the biggest users of PAPER in the world. The Pope reads off of paper. Church bulletins are paper. The missals are paper. The song books are paper. Etc, etc, etc! Pope Francis, YOU FIRST!!!!
I’ll bet there are plastics imbedded in the Pope’s vestments/cassocks. If there is cotton in those garbs then the sheep who created it expel emissions that are bad for global warming. What is the carbon footprint of all the people who come to Vatican occasions? 120,000 came to Mother Teresa’s canonization. How much water, in plastic bottles, did they consume as they roasted in the sun for hours?
Really, the more I think about this, the worse it seems. The world is dark with unholy abortion, Christians are being exterminated in the Middle East, the US is mocking God (because of BO’s executive orders supporting Sodom & Gomorrah), our religious freedoms are losing ground each & every day but the Pope of the Catholic church CHOOSES to focus on the faux Global Warming issue. I attempt to Keep Calm & say a Hail Mary. Pray.
Continued……..Do we need readiness for global warming sins? Or do we need to be prepared for the advancing war & global persecution of Christians? @ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/msgr-pope/comfort-catholicism-has-to-go-it-is-time-to-prepare-for-persecution/ Not mentioned in the article, but another point. Isn’t it contrary for governments to populate countries with people who do not wish to assimilate, only dominate? (Germany @ 1 million & counting) As infidels (non-muslims), our days are numbered. The muslim ‘creed’ = convert or die = martyrdom for Christians/Jews. Wouldn’t it be wiser to provide HELP to them in their countries & avoid any future conflcts? Pray.
There’s a legend. If those tossed floral wreaths float back to shore, it’s six more decades of Global Warming. If not, we’re good.