(Via Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has decided to set up a “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation” which will be celebrated on September 1st annually.
He made the announcement in a letter to the heads of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity.
While the words’ “global warming” and “climate change” aren’t specifically mentioned in the text, the purpose seems clear in the context of his recent encyclical when they say “the future of creation”. Something that Dr. James Hansen has touched on in a 2009 presentation “Climate Threat to Creation: Implications for Intergenerational Equity and Justice“. and also in 2007 with “An Opportunity to Lead the Nation in Stewardship of the Earth and Creation“. The language here seems very similar and the mention of the Encylical Letter. Laudato Si, 7-9 removes any doubt.
My view: God helps those who help themselves. If the planet is going to hell in a handbasket as they claim, praying about it won’t do much good.
Below in English is Pope Francis’ letter announcing the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation”
To my Venerable Brothers
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah TURKSON, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
Cardinal Kurt KOCH, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity
Sharing with my beloved brother the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew his concerns for the future of creation (cfr Encylical Letter. Laudato Si, 7-9) and taking up the suggestion by his representative, the Metropolitan Ioannis of Pergamum who took part in the presentation of the Encyclical Laudato Si on the care of our common home, I wish to inform you that I have decided to set up also in the Catholic Church, the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation” which, beginning this year, will be celebrated on the 1st of September, as the Orthodox Church has done for some time now.
As Christians we wish to offer our contribution towards overcoming the ecological crisis which humanity is living through. Therefore, first of all we must draw from our rich spiritual heritage the reasons which feed our passion for the care of creation, always remembering that for believers in Jesus Christ, the Word of God who became man for us, “the life of the spirit is not dissociated from the body or from nature or from worldly realities, but lived in and with them, in communion with all that surrounds us.” (ibid., 216). The ecological crisis therefore calls us to a profound spiritual conversion: Christians are called to “an ecological conversion whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them.” (ibid., 217). Thus, “living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.”(ibid).
The annual World Day of prayer for the Care of Creation offers to individual believers and to the community a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of creation, raising to God our thanks for the marvellous works that He has entrusted to our care, invoking his help for the protection of creation and his mercy for the sins committed against the world in which we live. The celebration of the Day on the same date as the Orthodox Church will be a valuable opportunity to bear witness to our growing communion with our orthodox brothers. We live in a time where all Christians are faced with identical and important challenges and we must give common replies to these in order to appear more credible and effective. Therefore it is my hope that this Day can involve, in some way, other Churches and ecclesial Communities and be celebrated in union with the initiatives that the World Council of Churches is promoting on this issue.
Cardinal Turkson, as President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, I asking you to inform the Justice and Peace Commissions of the Bishops’ Conferences, as well as the national and international Organizations involved in environmental issues about the establishment of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, so that in union with the needs and the local situation , this celebration can be rightly marked with the participation of the entire People of God: priests, men and women religious and the lay faithful. For this reason, it will be the task of this Dicastery, in collaboration with the Episcopal Conferences to set up relevant initiatives to promote and illustrate this Day, so that this annual celebration becomes a powerful moment of prayer, reflection, conversion and the adoption of appropriate life styles.
Cardinal Koch, as President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, I’m asking you to make the necessary contacts with the Ecumenical Patriarchate and with the other ecumenical organisations so that this World Day can become the sign of a path along all believers in Christ walk together. It will also be your Dicastery’s task to take care of the coordination with similar initiatives set up by the World Council of Churches.
Whilst I look forward to the widest possible cooperation for the best start and development of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, I invoke the intercession of Mary, the Mother of God and of St. Francis of Assisi, whose Canticle of the Creatures inspires so many men and women of goodwill to live in praise of the Creator and with respect for creation. I support this pledge along with my Apostolic Blessing which I impart with all my heart to you, my dear Cardinals, and to all those who collaborate in your ministry.
From the Vatican, 6th August 2015
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Should we tell them that this is NOT one of the Koch “brothers” or just let them be confused? 😎
We are all brothers under God.
Let it be, oh, let it be.
Let it be…
Indeed, that will be the prayer in the late 2020s and 2030s.
Oh, Global Warning, let it be, let it be !
Well not to worry; Mother Gaia knows the serial number and Temperature of every molecule in the universe, so she will make sure that the Temperature is exactly what it is supposed to be.
So it will all come out in the wash; she’ll be right Mates.
G
NO, we are NOT all brothers under god.
Regards
Climate Heretic
PS /Sarc
“Indeed, that will be the prayer in the late 2020s and 2030s.”
Do I get my money back if my farming plans in Greenland go haywire?
Whisper words of warming, let it be.
More likely one of the Marx brothers. This pope is a bit different.
+10 and clever as all get out!
Gary, you won this thread.
the ecological crisis which humanity is living through
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Who today fears Cholera or Diphtheria or Smallpox? Yet these conditions are great killers created by God that are part of the natural environment. Why should humans cherish the natural environment? The Vatican is about as removed from the natural environment as one can get.
Show me a Pope that is willing to go live in the wilderness, in the natural environment, removed from the conveniences of modern life. The current Pope would not be able to feed or care for himself in the wild. The environment that he cherishes would quickly kill and devour him.
Pick any wilderness region on earth where the environment is largely untouched by humans. In almost any spot on earth a naked Pope would die of exposure within a day or two at most. The only areas where a naked Pope could survive more than 2 days, he would be quite literally be eaten alive by insects.
Humans were cast out of The Garden of Eden by God. Mother Nature doesn’t give a damn about humans. She kills us pretty quickly once we are separated from our technology.
Hey Pope, Don’t you know that telling lies is a sin? And perpetrating the lie that ‘man made’ climate change is a crime against all mankind, and an abomination against God? Don’t you know that when you come in His name with a lie,you portray yourself as the anti-Christ prophesied in the Bible?
Only a fool would believe your words, and only a fool would tell them.
Oh, dear!
Will those praying be exhaling?
God help them if they are.
Bears will no longer be able to poo in the woods because it’s bad for the planet..?
Where will Mickey Mann find his next tree, then !!!!!
Our Mother, which art in Gaia, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in the Universe. Give us this day our daily cellulosic roughage, and condemn us for our emissions, as we condemn those who emit against us. Lead us not into using into temptation to bear children or to burn fossil fuels. And deliver us from evil polluters. For Thine is the Kingdom as represented by a General Circulation Model, and the Power of Groupthink of school teachers and NGOs, and the Glory of the Paris CoP 2015, forever and ever, or 2100 by which time we’ll all be drowned, starved or burned to a crisp. Amen.
Good, I’ll be praying for enough more global warming to avoid another frozen pipe and the ice damming I got last winter in Massachusetts.
It will cost you a lot!!
Me too! We didn’t even have a summer here either.
In the Pacific NW, we’ve had and are having SUMMER! But news outlets aren’t centered here; so we hear very little about AGW…
So how many millions of innocents has he just now condemned to an early death by cold, malnutrition, starvation, famine, disease, and illness from bad water, no sewage, poor food, no transportation, no clean cooking, and no sanitation?
Damn his socialism, his protected ivory-tower idealism and his ill-advisors.
Advisors? He is 100% to blame for his actions. Any rational human being could see the truth if they just stopped their bleating, bead fumbling and incomprehensible Latin mumbling and simply employed commonsense and reason.
Catch 22. If the Pope ’employed commonsense and reason’ he would not be the Pope.
Indeed, well said.
Calm down and reread it again. This was a suggestion by the Orthodox as a step for calendar synchronization that the Pope has responded positively to. There is nothing explicit about global warming here and it’s unlikely to be taken that way by Catholics who had not already drunk deep from the global warming koolaid. For them, every initiative is an excuse to talk about global warming anyway so, really, not a big difference.
Calendar synchronization has been a Catholic/Orthodox issue since 1582 when Pope Gregory XIII introduced his new calendar. This not only predates Michael Mann, global warming, but also socialism.
In other words, this is deep in the weeds of Catholic/Orthodox unification talks and will likely have zero global warming implications.
“Sharing with my beloved brother the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew his concerns for the future of creation (cfr Encylical Letter. Laudato Si, 7-9)”
Laudato Si, 7-9
1) The spiritual perspective is now part of the discussion on the environment.
2) The poor are disproportionately affected by climate change.
3) Less is more.
4) Catholic social teaching now includes teaching on the environment.
5) Discussions about ecology can be grounded in the Bible and church tradition.
6) Everything is connected—including the economy.
7) Scientific research on the environment is to be praised and used.
8) Widespread indifference and selfishness worsen environmental problems.
9) Global dialogue and solidarity are needed.
10) A change of heart is required
http://americamagazine.org/top-ten-takeaways-laudato-si
If it’s “calendar synchronization” that is behind Francis’ latest environmental spiel then it’s an extremely esoteric point that will fly over the heads of most everyone, Catholics included. But regardless of the Pope’s intent or meaning, climate doom-mongers (most of whom are irreligious leftists) will enthusiastically interpret his words as an endorsement of their agenda. For them it’s propaganda gold.
The Pope has recently waxed critical of “unbridled capitalism”, “greed” and “climate change” as sources of all evil in the modern world. He doesn’t seem to grasp that those who happily quote his careless, misguided rhetoric are no friends of the Church. In fact most are at best indifferent and many are hostile to religion and not a few despise the Catholic Church in particular. His encouraging them like this adds to their credibility and boosts an agenda that will lead to more poverty and suffering in the world, not less.
TMLutas is correct – There is nothing explicit about global warming here and it’s unlikely to be taken that way by Catholics.
The post addressed the fact that the words of CAGW were not directly stated, but no doubt implied…
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“While the words’ “global warming” and “climate change” aren’t specifically mentioned in the text, the purpose seems clear in the context of his recent encyclical when they say “the future of creation”. Something that Dr. James Hansen has touched on in a 2009 presentation “Climate Threat to Creation: Implications for Intergenerational Equity and Justice“. and also in 2007 with “An Opportunity to Lead the Nation in Stewardship of the Earth and Creation“. The language here seems very similar and the mention of the Encylical Letter. Laudato Si, 7-9 removes any doubt.”
Worst pope evah. But a good pinko commie agitator as Archie Bunker would say. Dunno which is worse – the commie pope or the pedophile priests.
Really?
It’s the latter.
latter
That depends on the rate of information leakage on each.
The former is worse by far, helping to insure that billions of 3rd world people will be denied their right to dig their way out of poverty using cheap fossil fuel the way the 1st world did ~150 years ago.
This is great! I love it… it’s an act of faith for something that isn’t actually a problem… so when it becomes clear that the problem is solved, we can thank the Pope. LOL!
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas tried that approach – praying for rain, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Prayer_for_Rain_in_the_State_of_Texas
It did not work. In America, perhaps a rain dance would have been more successful.
Not a bad idea, a cold dance to halt the heat! Perhaps Deney Terrio could put some nice moves together for us.
It did seem to work in south eastern Australia a few years back. A pinko journalist asked the then Prime Minister John Howard whether people should pray for an end to the drought which had been going for several years, and he said yes. The middle class left wing media went into hysterics, but on the Sunday conservative churches all over the drought stricken areas prayed for rain, and on the Tuesday and Wednesday we got more rain than we had got over the previous few years in total. Yes, I know, pure coincidence etc. But the thing you can have real faith in is that middle class pinkos will always end up beclowning themselves.
Britain did the same back in 1976 (long before Global Warming, I might add).
The UK had a record breaking summer and drought that got pretty serious. So Mr Dennis Howell MP was appointed as the Minister for Drought, and within three days it had started raining. It was all down to his circular dancing in his office, it was explained…
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/philip-eden/The-greatest-drought-on-record.htm
Ralph
Maybe Wiki has been to hasty, After all, look at today,s drought map as compared to what Wiki is showing back in 2011. That was a deep widespread drought. So it took God a few years to set it right. Besides He thought that the Texans might get the wrong message if He tried to fix it faster, and ended up flooding them out of their homes……http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
as the “permanent drought” ended, perhaps it did work.
Why is the Church not praying to make it colder? When did it become a sin to go shopping on the weekend?
This is great! I love it… it’s an act of faith for something that isn’t actually a problem… so when it becomes clear that the problem is solved, we can thank the Pope. LOL!
Prayer seems largely harmless, to me at least. So if he thinks it helps, go ahead.
Just so long as his praying doesn’t involve others paying.
Prayer seems largely
harmlessuseless, to me at least.Fixed it for ya. No charge.
It might be both harmless and useless — no contradiction there.
I like having a “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation” . But means our job is to show the pope that to properly take care of Creation, it demands scientific integrity NOT bogus claims to create climate fear
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or
http://landscapesandcycles.net/American_Meterological_Society_half-truth.html
Amen!
Jim,
The CAGW agenda is being used as a Proxy for HC Depletion, which is a real issue, but one which TPTB (including Big Oil) does not want to address directly.
Re-Energize Iowa: An Opportunity to Lead the Nation in Stewardship of the Earth and Creation Jim Hansen, 5 August 2007
A price on carbon emissions is needed to stretch oil and gas supplies as we develop technologies needed for the world ‘beyond petroleum’. The carbon price will drive efficiency and low-carbon or no-carbon energy sources. If instead we continue business-as-usual, addicted to more and more fossil fuel use, as oil begins to run out we will be unprepared
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2007/Iowa_20070805.pdf
al the best
brent (retired downstreamer)
the Chicago Mercantile Exchange(CME) does a pretty good job of signaling future prices and supplies. We don’t need a government edict to enforce some imaginary price on the future. We began to run out of oil the day Drake’s first well came in. We’ll always have oil,, for a price, and if that price gets steep enough there is the technology available to meet the demand. If oil you must have, just make it, probably using nuclear reactors as a heat source.
Because I needed another reason to rue getting baptized Catholic so I could marry my now-ex in a cathedral.
So nice to see the Lefties’ having one of their own in the Vatican. In the end, it’s somewhat understandable: whether the Statists or the Religious, it’s all about the feelz.
But are we supposed to pray for global warming or against it? I am confused. 🙂
Chuckle, more plant food please.
Well you pick your own Temperature; it’s the only fair way !
Doesn’t anybody care that there are NO green stars !
Green is NOT a black body Temperature.
G
I’m going to pray that God saves all creation from “climate scientists” like Micky Mouse, Cookthedata and Nutterbelly and psychopathogens like Stewandpoutski.
(psychopathogen- an unstable, mentally ill person who infects the brain tissue of anyone willing to believe him/her)
As I have said before, who is going to save the planet from those who are trying to save the planet.?
Stephen Heins,
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (often translated as “Who will guard the guardians?)
More like, who will save us from those trying to save the planet? The planet doesn’t need saving. It was just fine doing what planets do before we ever arrived and it will continue doing it long after we are all gone. And right now it has no knowledge of anyone trying to save it nor would it care one way or the other.
/preaching to the choir
According to the pope’s own bible, God destroyed the surface of this planet with global rain because he repented that he had ever created humans. Observing today’s climastrologists, I can’t say that I blame him. He should try it again – this time with global snow.
@noaaprogrammer August 12, 2015 at 8:21 pm
Yeah, God just might be PO’d enough by the hubris of the Planet Savers to try a do-over. God promised not to use water again and snow is the frozen form of water, so snow is probably off the table. I’m thinking the Supreme Being would have something else in mind… more cosmic, like an asteroid or something. Maybe we shouldn’t dismiss Planet X out of hand, eh? ;o)
“As Christians we wish to offer our contribution towards overcoming the ecological crisis which humanity is living through. Therefore, first of all we must draw from our rich spiritual heritage the reasons which feed our passion for the care of creation, always remembering that for believers in Jesus Christ, the Word of God who became man for us, “the life of the spirit is not dissociated from the body or from nature or from worldly realities, but lived in and with them, in communion with all that surrounds us.” (ibid., 216). The ecological crisis therefore calls us to a profound spiritual conversion: Christians are called to “an ecological conversion whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them.” (ibid., 217). Thus, “living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.”
This is meant to coerce/corral/manipulate Christians into the warmist’s groupthink. This act is sickening.
Let’s ask ourselves, “What would Jesus do?”
Would Jesus allow the moneychangers into the temple? – make no mistake – the warmists are a creation of the moneychangers (bankers).
Would Jesus use the subversive tactics of warmists? Would Jesus lie to get his way?
Would Jesus place blame where it doesn’t belong – ie bear false witness?
Would Jesus force anyone into an non-optional course of action based on the above three?
Would Jesus try to encourage the elimination of human beings as the warmists want?
What this Pope is doing is trying to do is force all Christians to become a slave – a ‘convert’ to the Green religion (agenda) – a humanist anti-God religion, and make Earth worship the center of life.
All of the above is the very definition of what Jesus was against.
The Pope therefore cannot truly be a Christian.
I don’t know what the Pope is, but he’s not very observant or scientific, and I think he is deliberately trying to change the very definition of what it means to be a Christian.
There is no ecological crisis demanding such obedience to such blatant manipulation.
How far would/will this Pope go towards achieving the warmist’s Earth-“purifying” objectives.
A better question, “What did Jesus pray?”
John 17:8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
Jesus Christ came to save Man, not the whales.
The Pope’s twisting of Scripture is no better than Hayhoe’s.
PS I know that many here don’t care one way or the other what the Bible says. I didn’t make this comment to start a debate along those lines. I made it merely to point out that the Pope’s call doesn’t quite line up with Scriptural “observations”. Perhaps he should read all of John 17?
Amen, brother.
Thank you for what you have said.
Also I have always looked your “Handle” thus I offer this with respect
E carried me away
To where a dooli lay,
An’ a bullet come an’ drilled the beggar clean. 70
‘E put me safe inside,
An’ just before ‘e died:
“I ‘ope you liked your drink,” sez Gunga Din.
So I’ll meet ‘im later on
In the place where ‘e is gone— 75
Where it’s always double drill and no canteen;
‘E’ll be squattin’ on the coals
Givin’ drink to pore damned souls,
An’ I’ll get a swig in Hell from Gunga Din!
Din! Din! Din! 80
You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!
Tho’ I’ve belted you an’ flayed you,
By the livin’ Gawd that made you,
You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
michael
Oops Liked not looked
Well I’m going to inform my bishop that I think Francis is making a fool of himself and embarrassing Catholics worldwide because there is no ecological crisis. Gaian rubbish.
Francis claims that the ecological crisis corresponds to a threat by mankind against God’s creation, as if God is neither immanent nor transcendent.
I wonder then, to whom are we to pray?
Ban Ki-Moon?
I think this Pope is going to shrink the faith significantly. He seems unaware that the poor are the pawns in the great godless enterprise of Malthusian elites using climate to usher in a world government run by them (the ‘elites’ also want a much smaller earth population – so guess who goes and who stays).
My own favorite Biblical quote.
” Jesus wept ! ”
g
These sick priests and Bishops of Rome have absolutely ZERO moral authority, period. The Roman Catholic Church stoked the murder of 6 million Jews through blood libel. If not directly involved, the church and Pious XII were silent during the Holocaust. Its priests actively shielded Nazis and facilitated their escape to South America after the war. Incredibly, convicted Nazi war criminals were being offered sanctuary in France well into the 1980s.
Not to mention the rampant pedophilia and rape of children perpetrated by Roman Catholic Priests throughout the world. Covered up and facilitated, of course, by Roman Catholic church authorities, who to this day offer sanctuary to these sick, deviant child molesters and their enablers in Vatican City.
Spot on.
You’ve nailed it.
He’s certainly an apostate.
Bob, I think you may have misinterpreted what the Pope was in reality saying.
Your statements from “Let’s ask ourselves” to “elimination of human beings as the warmists want?” are perfectly correct. The Pope is condemning the CAGW alarmists, not supporting them, and all should use exactly what the Pope said to point out, long and loudly, that there is no support in scripture for their position. I agree he may not be “very observant or scientific” but his words are fully in line with the views of Lord Monckton, or Willis E, and almost all those on this site who query the lack of scientific knowledge and practice of the CAGW promoters.. Some are obviously, from their remarks, not Christians, but they will still agree with you and the Pope that what Jesus would say and do now bears no relation to the desires of those supporting the pretence of AGW, C or not.
Gunga Din has found (thank you) the perfect reference from John’s Gospel in chapter 17 verse 9 = “I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.” Jesus prays for PEOPLE, not the inanimate creation.
Bob, if you are a Christian, may God give strength to your elbow in pointing out to your fellow church members (and your local and far-flung communities) the correct interpretation of what the Pope said, not the distorted version you are likely to hear from the warmists and alarmists. If you are not a Christian, well, do the same anyway.
I’d appreciate it if you would spell how you think the alarmists are being condemned by the Pope.
Dudley, the point is the Bible does say what Gunga Din noted, but the Pope has, nevertheless thrown his support behind the CAGW alarmists. This Pope is different. Surely it won’t be said that he didn’t understand that the CAGW clique and the UN are elitists who want to reduce the population down to 1-3billion (depending on who you choose). The elitists are denying poor countries cheap energy and it has even been said that a pandemic of major proportions wouldn’t be enough – policy ‘initiatives’ were needed.
Ironically, China has set up the Asian Monetary Fund to fund the kind of projects that the WMF and the World Bank won’t fund to help the poor. Obama was outraged and tried, without success, to join the AMF so that the existing system under Western control wouldn’t be compromised. Asia will develop Africa and other poor regions and the Pope will be stuck with the Malthusian elites. I predict a grand exodus of Catholics from the faith under this Pope when they come to realize who his bedfellows are.
The Pope can claim the day of prayer was a total success since there has been no global warming in over 18 years. It reminds me of the old joke about the man that clapped his hands to keep the elephants away. See it works!
Maybe that it works retroactively.
He’s planting watermelon seeds.
…My view: God helps those who help themselves. If the planet is going to hell in a handbasket as they claim, praying about it won’t do much good….
I’m wondering why God would allow this to happen? After all, He made the Earth, so you’d think he would be a little more protective of it? And even when He did Sodom and Gomorrah over, he arranged for the few righteous to flee.
Doesn’t he care about punishing the innocent with the guilty? It’s things like this that lose a religion its followers…
And an ideologue Pope Frank.
More like an idiot frankenpope.
I deny any relation and all association.
That’s krankenpope !
Fits perfectly.
g
Ah, but he works in mysterious ways, Dodgy G!
My view: God helps those who help themselves
And God help those who get caught.
The denial of energy to the poorest on the planet will result in massive misery. The escathological cargo cult of the CAGW has an agenda that will do precisely that.
24-years late. The Greek Orthodox Church established the care for creation liturgy in 1991 during Pope Parthenius III regime!
Old boy Pope Francis and the Vatican and the Latin Church are really behind the times!
Christianity evolves by adopting Pagan rituals.
http://www.goarch.org/ourfaith/ourfaith8048
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_Parthenius_III_of_Alexandria
Ha ha
Here in Michigan we will absolve those who caused this warming if they send some our way during this next winter. After three really cold and snowy winters in a row, we will welcome some warmth. So will my remaining boxwoods.
I guess I could pray that the lie of CO2 pollution is exposed and we can get back to solving the real pollution issues. But they are local and give the Pope no global leverage.
I am quite sure that if Man is such a threat to God’s creation, God WILL stop Man from destroying His work!! Supplications have never gone down very well with the almighty, Fire and Brimstone on the other hand did wonders in the past!! Sodoma and Gomorra a prime example, not that the tower of Babel was insignificant either…..The pope is trying to make Himself relevant so taht he can sign up a few more members!!!
I like this. Now we can check for correlations between the first of September and Global climate effects.
If there is a correlation, we have a testable theory that God exists.
If there is no correlation, we have evidence that God exists, but he can be swamped by natural factors.
But if God exists he would not supply us with a scientifically proveable method, because that denies faith.
And if natural factors can thwart God, then he is not a God.
So this Prayer day proves that God exists and that he doesn’t exist. But only for Catholics
Let us pray…
Oh God, Lord of Hosts, We are thankful for the Bountifully Warm times in which we live. We are truly blessed with harvests capable of sustaining the thronging masses which you have seen fit to allow to thrive upon this Earth. We further thank you for allowing such diversity of creation to have evolved such that we have more to eat than just Pond Scum and more to drink than just brackish water.
We pray to be kept safe from the evils that would be beset upon us from the entity known as EPA (Evil Personified Agency), protect us from those fools that see fit to tell us that even the exhalations of the respirations you’ve seen fit to give us, that stuff of food for the Plants, that first link in the massive food chain, which thrive upon this Earth, are Toxic to the very existence of that same said life. Lead us not down the path of Hubris that seems to infect those very EPA Leaders. Help those with influence to see the great truth and light in the grand design of this Earth that CO2 is Vital to our very existence and that a Warmer life is far better than a Colder life
Seems harmless enough. At least he isn’t naming witches who may have caused the global ecological crisis – in his head.
I agree. Having a communist pope is good for Catholic Church third world recruiting. Plus we can always use communists who respect the environment, because they sure made a mess in the Soviet Union. On the other hand, won’t it hurt the political chances for Mr Jeb Bush?
This looks more like an attempt to prevent the decline in Catholic numbers by grabbing onto the “hip” religion of AGW. What’s next – ISIS declaring jihad on “deniers”?