Pope Francis to issue edict about Global Warming. Apparently the Pope has decided to ignore the Lord’s proscription on worshipping false idols.

Pope Francis to issue edict about Global Warming. Apparently the Pope has decided to ignore the Lord’s proscription on worshipping false idols.
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I agree with the hope on this. Hopefully this will bring more awareness to climate change and global warming.
*Pope
hope on a trope?
You mean the lack of?
Were your tears dripping onto the keyboard when you typed up that tripe?
Nope
Looks like the Vatican want's a cut of the Carbon Credit cash.
The Catholic Church and the leadership occasionally get science wrong or chose to ignore what real science is really all about. Anyone remember Galileo's house arrest?
Interestingly, the chief theologian of the Inquisition that charged Galileo was a Jesuit, like Pope Francis. Galileo was furious with the Jesuits for abandoning him. Here we are, almost exactly 400 years later, with the first Jesuit Pope ignoring the math again.
(Okay, I find it interesting even if nobody else does.)
one wonders who will be Francis' Tetzel.
Edict? Who does he think he is? Obama?
Popes have been issuing edicts for centuries. The question might be better said who does Obama think he is, the Pope?
Well whatever... not a catholic so I don't have to follow any of his "edicts"
I am a Catholic, and could care less about his edicts.
I always get confused about where the Pope is considered infallible and where he's considered just another guy with an opinion.
Just like Obama, whatever fits the narrative at the moment.
I'd have to say, who does either ONE of them think they are?
With the sole exception of their opposition to prenatal infanticide, the American bishops have ALWAYS been very left-wing and at the forefront of every lefty fad that came along -- during the Reagan Era, they were the ones on board with "Step One: US/USSR Nuclear Weapons Freeze" (remember those smug little bumper stickers?)
I suppose any truly sincere Christian faith must take to heart the commands in Genesis to be stewards over Creation, and I suppose from a Christian (or Jewish) point of view we can have legitimately differing viewpoints on how that should be accomplished. Falling for such humbugs as the Global Climate Warming/Cooling Weather Weirding Syndrome is another question entirely.
I think too that he makes a valid observation that "what dominates are the dynamics of an economy and a finance that are lacking in ethics. It is no longer man who commands, but money." Even as free-market enthusiasts, I think we must adhere to some ethical standard, or we devolve into Don Corleone, literally blowing up the competition. Even LAWYERS have a clearly-defined ethical standard, I don't think it is too much to ask of a businessman, although I do stop short of asking it as an actual legal requirement.
Recall too, that one of Scripture's most misquoted passages actually reads "The love of money is the root of all evil." (Sorry, Ms. Rand.) We are told to pray daily for our daily bread -- not that we may have 10 years' strategic reserve of bread locked away in stock options, hedge funds, and municipal bonds.
There certainly is a Scriptural basis for environmentalism, and it's a shame first that the Progressive Left has been allowed to co-opt it, and that we have rendered ourselves unable to offer a more conservative alternative.
Every little bit helps. The Global Warming myth was not built in a day.
Oh, oh! I guess that's why the thugs robbed his "summer" retreat...
"Nuns serving at pope’s summer residence robbed — on Christmas Day"
http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/12/28/nuns-serving-popes-summer-residence-robbed-christmas-day/
Talk about going to hell in a hand basket. . . .
In a turbocharged hand basket.
18 years, no warming.
The GW cult is angry because they can't take credit for it.
If we had signed on to the Kyoto Protocols, they would now be shouting, "Look! We saved the world! Now do as we say forever!"
If you think voting doesn't matter, just think where we'd be if Gore had taken the White House.
Ugggghhhhh. Gore as Presid e nt. That's an image to.trigger nightmares.
You make this point often and I am glad you keep repeating it. Very true!
It's always about the money, that is why I am not a fan of organized religion. The Catholic Church is like the U.S. Government, give us your money, we know better than you do what to do with it. And somehow the Pope and his merry band of wanna be IRS agents would benefit from this scam.
The Catholic Church is NOTHING like the U.S. Government, they're not in debt, and they are hoarding cash and gold.
I'm not as cynical as you. I think Pope John Paul was a tremendous force for good, an ardent anti-communist ascending to the papacy in the middle of the Cold War - I took that as a sign that God still intervenes in human affairs. Reagan and John Paul were like a one-two punch to communism's gut. But the Catholic Church is a bureaucracy like any other bureaucracy, and bureaucracies tend to attract a nasty evil breed of human being. Those nasty evil bureaucrats have the upper hand right now at the Vatican, it seems. I cannot see any other explanation for electing Francis to the head of the church.
Francis is in . The process of reforming much of the bureaucracy, starting with the Vatican Curia. He has his points.
you can say that again:
http://www.francispapanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/pope-francis-against-devil-570x330.jpg
What the hell? Is that photoshopped?
http://www.westernjournalism.com/drudge-report-finds-something-devilish-obamas-appearance-wednesday-night/#aWZ2DXDiR2yPHtHF.97
transparency
i don't think so.
Except I am cynical about his motives. Every time I've ever heard a leftist talk about reforming bureaucracy, it turns out to be a power grab rather than reform. In other words, get rid of the conservative bureaucrats and hire more leftist ones. Stalin was a great reformer too. We've already seen Francis fire a conservative cardinal, right?
And one of the prongs on the trident that finally stuck it to the Soviets; The Pope, Thatcher and Reagan. (and the "smarter people" have let them rise again)
Yeah, she was something. Much blunter than Reagan, and they say they loved each other's company.
And, and... SoftServe! back in the day.
(thing I loved most, I got some at the time, but looking back at clips was her dry, razor sharp wit. If you blinked you missed it, and still got cut)
PMs have to be much harder-nosed than presidents. Have you seen how they get treated in Parliament? Obama would have a hissy fit if he ever got treated like that.
Canada is even worse from what I've seen. The PM in Canada can barely get a word in edgewise.
I think we need that here (along with a few fist-fights on the floor of the House & Senate). Can you just see stompy-foot getting it from both sides with the live Cspan cameras rolling and breaking out in tears?
And for those that missed my little reference, God Save the (Dairy) Queen!
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/margaret-thatcher-may-have-helped-invent-soft-serve-ice-cream/274767/
For Pete's sake, don't talk about the Middle East, too much going on there.