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This is amazing news, and the article even notes that it "is certain to anger sections of Republican opinion in America by endorsing the warnings of climate scientists and admonishing rich elites."
A snippet:
"Pope Francis will call for an ethical and economic revolution to prevent catastrophic climate change and growing inequality in a letter to the worlds 1.2 billion Catholics on Thursday.
In an unprecedented encyclical on the subject of the environment, the pontiff is expected to argue that humanitys exploitation of the planets resources has crossed the Earths natural boundaries, and that the world faces ruin without a revolution in hearts and minds. The much-anticipated message, which will be sent to the worlds 5,000 Catholic bishops, will be published online in five languages on Thursday and is expected to be the most radical statement yet from the outspoken pontiff.
However, it is certain to anger sections of Republican opinion in America by endorsing the warnings of climate scientists and admonishing rich elites, say cardinals and scientists who have advised the Vatican.
The Ghanaian cardinal, Peter Turkson, president of the Vaticans Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and a close ally of the pope, will launch the encyclical. He has said it will address the root causes of poverty and the threats facing nature, or creation.'
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/13/pope-francis-intervention-transforms-climate-change-debate
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)have been demonizing (quite literally) the Catholic Church for years anyway so they'll just use this as more proof of same. They are a truly sick group of people.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Until this church stops with its anti-birth control nonsense anything it has to say about climate change is irrelevant.