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Pope Leo Appeals for More Climate Action
« on: July 11, 2025, 06:38:50 am »
Pope Leo Appeals for More Climate Action
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The first US pope is just as green as his predecessor.

Pope prays for world to recognize urgency of climate crisis as he celebrates Mass’ using new rite

BY  NICOLE WINFIELD Updated 11:47 PM AEST, July 9, 2025

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of the poor,” as he celebrated the first papal Mass using a new set of prayers and readings inspired by Pope Francis’ environmental legacy.

The Mass, in the gardens of the Vatican’s new ecological educational center at the papal summer estate in Castel Gandolfo, indicated a strong line of ecological continuity with Francis, who made environmental protection a hallmark of his pontificate.

Wearing flowing green vestments, Leo presided at the liturgy in front of a statue of the Madonna and at the foot of a reflecting pool, immersed in the lush green gardens on an unusually cool summer day. He said the world needed to change its mindset about the planet and what is causing “the world to burn.”

“We must pray for the conversion of so many people, inside and out of the church, who still don’t recognize the urgency of caring for our common home,” he said. “We see so many natural disasters in the world, nearly every day and in so many countries, that are in part caused by the excesses of being human, with our lifestyle.”

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Re: Pope Leo Appeals for More Climate Action
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2025, 06:40:50 am »
However, a Vatican custodian thinks the green agenda is nonsense.  Who are you to be believe?  The Pope, who is not a meteorologist or the custodian, who isn't either?
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: Pope Leo Appeals for More Climate Action
« Reply #2 on: Today at 04:45:07 am »
I will believe the Custodian, who apparently 'gets' that The Almighty has things under control and would not try to seize the reins of our climate from God.

Oh, ye of little faith...
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis