WASHINGTON — Since his first homily in 2013, Pope Francis has preached about the need to protect the earth and all of creation as part of a broad message on the environment. It has caused little controversy so far. But now, as Francis prepares to deliver what is likely to be a highly influential encyclical this summer on environmental degradation and the effects of human-caused climate changeon the poor, he is alarming some conservatives in the United States who are loath to see the Catholic Church reposition itself as a mighty voice in a cause they do not believe in. As part of the effort for the encyclical, top Vatican officials will hold a summit meeting Tuesday to build momentum for a campaign by Francis to urge world leaders to enact a sweeping United Nations climate change accord in Paris in December. The accord would for the first time commit every nation to enact tough new laws to cut the emissions that cause global warming. The Vatican summit meeting will focus on the links between poverty, economic development and climate change, with speeches and panel discussions by climate scientists and religious leaders, and economists like Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia. The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, who is leading efforts to forge the Paris accord, will deliver the opening address. Vatican officials, who have spent more than a year helping Francis prepare his message, have convened several meetings already on the topic. Last month, they met with the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy. In the United States, the encyclical will be accompanied by a 12-week campaign, now being prepared with the participation of some Catholic bishops, to raise the issue of climate change and environmental stewardship in sermons, homilies, news media interviews and letters to newspaper editors, said Dan Misleh, executive director of the Catholic Climate Covenant in Washington. But the effort is already angering a number of American conservatives, among them members of the Heartland Institute, a libertarian group partly funded by the Charles G. Koch Foundation, run by the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers, who oppose climate policy. “The Holy Father is being misled by ‘experts’ at the United Nations who have proven unworthy of his trust,” Joseph Bast, the president of the Heartland Institute, said in a statement. “Though Pope Francis’ heart is surely in the right place, he would do his flock and the world a disservice by putting his moral authority behind the United Nations’ unscientific agenda on the climate.” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/w...column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news *********************************************************
With the Pope's blessing, Catholics no longer need to deny the science, now they can accept the AGW view on faith alone.
I believe so, but with the caveat that profits come first. (Profits being the most sincere form of stewardship.)
At least some reasonable people are seeking to educate the Pope on "climate change"... Conservative thinktank seeks to change Pope Francis's mind on climate change http://www.theguardian.com/environm...rancis-lobbying-climate-change-global-warming
“The Holy Father is being misled by ‘experts’ at the United Nations who have proven unworthy of his trust,” Joseph Bast, the president of the Heartland Institute, said in a statement. “Though Pope Francis’ heart is surely in the right place, he would do his flock and the world a disservice by putting his moral authority behind the United Nations’ unscientific agenda on the climate.” Notice how Joe Bast couches it in terms of the UN. Never mind that every US science organization, NASA, NOAA in addition to essentially every American climate scientist also agrees. Think he's trying to appeal to the anti-UN, xenophobic, isolationist, right wing nut jobs much? But he should know something about an unscientific agenda.
everyone suspects this pope is a progressive / part commie. I am still trying to be open minded... but the more I see of this pope the more I think he is a guy of limited brain capacity with a big heart there is clearly a split that runs pretty close in the cardinals who elect a pope. We got a conservative one before now we have a possible commie. Some of these cardinals that are electing these Popes are the same ones who either participated in child molesting allowed or took part in switching the molesters around from parish to parish or refused to properly clean the mess when they had a chance a few years ago. The church need married priests and needs to clean out those crooked cardinals and vatican bureaucracy. This current Catholic church structure is a perfect example of why we can't have top down centralized control govt.