Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, has claimed in an interview that Pope Francis will “convince” President Trump to take action climate change during their scheduled meeting on May 24th.
Pope to convince Trump on climate change, Sorondo tells ANSA
‘Oil companies rallied against pope’s encyclical’
(ANSA) – Vatican City, May 15 – Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez told ANSA in an interview that he believes the Pope will convince US President Donald Trump to change his mind on climate change. Pope Francis dedicated his ‘Laudato Si’ encyclical to climate change and will be meeting with Donald Trump on May 24, who has signed an executive order dismantling Obama-era environmental legislation.
In the eyes of Sanchez Sorondo, the choices adopted on climate by Trump “are against science, even before being against what the Pope says. In the election campaign he even said it was a Chinese invention to criticize America. But this president has already changed about several things, so perhaps on this as well”.
He added that “today the Chinese are actually very collaborative as concerns the commitments they took on climate with the Paris Climate Conference (the Conference of the Parties, or COP2)”.
The Argentinian bishop, who spoke last week at the University of the Holy Cross at an event marking the two-year anniversary of the Pope’s encyclical, said that “when he was preparing the ‘Laudato Si’, oil lobbies did everything in their power to prevent the Pope from saying what he did, meaning that climate change is caused by human activity that employ fossil fuels.
Perhaps the oil companies wanted a ‘light’ encyclical’ – a romantic one on nature that wouldn’t say anything at all.
Instead, the Pope followed what the scientific community says.
If the president does not follow science, then that is the president’s problem.” On his opinion that the Pope will manage to “convince” Donald Trump, Sorondo said that “they will come to an agreement, since the president claims to be a Christian, and so he will listen to him.”
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Nothing personal, and with all due respect, but he’s not a scientist or climate expert, so why should anyone listen to him about stuff like that?
And the way he’s been going lately, why should anyone listen to him about religion, which he is supposed to be an expert about, but it’s not obvious to me or lots of other people?,
“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
― Richard Feynman
The Pope Bergoglio has also written the encyclical one “Laudato siì” to sit to the table where UN and WB will serve $ 89’000 billion.
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http://www.imolaoggi.it/2015/06/20/la-banca-mondiale-loda-lenciclica-di-bergoglio/
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Trump’s reply ought to be a simple one:
OK with me:
kreizkruzifix on May 18, 2017 at 7:07 pm
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Sheri, and reading James Bliss you’ll see why the Pope NEVER can accept ‘climate deniers’ as human beings before the eyes of his god.
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but that’s FUNDAMENTALS !
that’s the boundaries between
Green belivers + Democrats + liberals + conservative republicans
and
science + Trump + the real world
outside
a solipsistic self protecting world view.
I think Trump is probably aware that the current Pope is a communist bastard.
And a complete and utter FOOL as well. !!
You want a Reformation? Because THAT’S how you get a reformation.
“Instead, the Pope followed what the scientific community says.”
Instead of following Christ, it seems that the Pope has chosen to put his trust in the arm of flesh and follow the scientific community. “And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.” Trying to mold church doctrine to match what the scientific community says is a fool’s errand. Science has changed a great deal over its history, and there is no reason to think it won’t change in the future. So even if you were to succeed in bringing church doctrine into harmony with the science of today, it would be in discord with the science of tomorrow.
In the year 1992, after all of 13 years investigation (can you believe that?) the Vatican admitted that its rejection of Galilieo’s claim was drivel.
So in the year 2374, after 13 years of investigation, the Vatican will admit that its Laudato Si was drivel and that an American Presidential candidate Trump was spot on in 2016.
Vatican minds are not closed to reason but, non dieu, they’re slow!
Was that the message they sent out to the hordes just outside the gates of Rome?
Since the Pope is not a trained climate scientist, he does not have an appropriate opinion regarding the real cause of climate change. Since the climate change we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oveans over which Mankind has no control, the Pope would be better off praying for a better climate.
It seems to me that the pope ought to wind his neck in, especially after the abuse scandal.
Laudado Si. I don’t know Latin however to me it marked the end of my relationship with the Catholic Church.
So, just whom are we supposed to believe anymore ?
The field is getting really thin.