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  • Pope Francis names climate action as a sacred duty

    Pope Francis names climate action as a sacred duty

    Pope Francis
    Pope Francis is unpopular with the institutional hierarchy

    Pope Francis this week named pollution as ‘sinful’ and fighting Climate Change a ‘sacred duty’.

    He called urgently for people to actively work to save the environment, proposing that the Catholic Church add such a duty to the list of “seven mercies,” which includes feeding the hungry and visiting the sick, which Catholics are required to perform.

    “Humans are turning the planet into a polluted wasteland full of debris, desolation and filth,” the Pontiff said. Building on Laudato Si his Encyclical last year, he added that “The world’s poor, though least responsible for climate change, are most vulnerable and already suffering its impact.”

    http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/01/deeming-pollution-earth-sinful-pope-proposes-climate-action-sacred-duty

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/natural-resource-use-tripled_us_57a05c3ae4b0693164c273a8

  • Church closes ranks on rebel Pope

    Church closes ranks on rebel Pope

    Pope Francis
    Pope Francis is unpopular with the institutional hierarchy

    The Catholic Herald this week openly criticized Pope Francis’ statements that we must not equate Terrorism with Islam.

    It is the most recent in a series of high profile criticisms of the Pope by Catholic commentators. Pope Francis told reporters last week that we must not mention terrorism by Islamists without reference to Christian terrorism. He also said, “Terrorism is the work of fundamentalists. All religions have their fundamentalist sects.”

    He noted that Christianity and Islam share the same notion of conquest, and blamed imperial and colonial interference in the Middle East for the current unrest.