Pope Francis and the Apocalypse

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Pope Francis said “if we destroy creation, creation will destroy us.”
Is he just warning us to get in shape and take care of our planet or does he know something about the apocalypse.

My priest says NO one knows when the end of the world will be. I assume that includes Pope Francis.
 
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I think he was pretty clear in what he was saying. And it’s in line with other things he’s said and written. I don’t see why you think this is hinting that he knows something about the Apocalypse?
 
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So he just means we need to get in shape and care for our planet?
 
Saying what? That we need to help the planet or the worlds going to end soon?
 
I am not sure of the Bible verse but I know the jist.

God ordered people to plant for 6 years and let the land rest the 7th year. But people got greedy. Year after year after year they planted and harvested, not doing as God asked and letting the land rest. I believe after 7x7 or some measure of that God allowed a famine and the land became not only not fertile but uninhabitable.

We know this to be true today because it jives with the desertification of areas like the Sahara which were once fertile and today is a terrible, hopeless desert.

We seem to think that today we can outsmart God with science–but the handwriting is all over. Keep abusing the Earth’s natural resources and it will find a way to ‘get back’ at humaity…at which point humans will no longer be able to cope or live.
 
Pope Francis was not talking about the apocalypse or the end of the human race. If we wreck the environment, the worst I would expect is to plunge humanity into another Dark Age. This would bring suffering like we can scarcely imagine, but humanity (and Christianity) would scrape by somehow.
One plausible environmental-disaster scenario is outlined in the book Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future, by Peter D. Ward. In brief, fossil evidence suggests that some of the mass extinctions in earth’s distant past resulted from overly warm oceans releasing massive amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas, poisoning the atmosphere and wiping out the ozone layer. The concern of course is that the current trend of carbon dioxide buildup and global warming may trigger another such catastrophe.
 
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I read another article where Pope Francis did predict that the end of the world was near. My priest says NO ONE knows when the end of the world is near.
Would that include the Pope or would he know something we don’t know, since he’s the Pope?
 
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http://www.catholic.org/news/hf/faith/story.php?id=65625

I mean, does the Pope have inside information about stuff like that that others don’t know?
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You really should read an article before posting it.

He doesn’t have “inside information”. He is warning people to be vigilant and to be observant of the signs that God promised. MANY in the Jewish community before the time of Jesus preached this level of vigilance.

The author is making highly, highly speculative commentary and inserting drivel level conspiracy theories to what are really simple statments about what’s going on in the world today.
 
So when I’m told by my priest and former priest that NO ONE knows when the end of the world will be, that includes the Pope?
 
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So when I’m told by my priest and former priest that NO ONE knows when the end of the world will be, that includes the Pope?
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The Pope NEVER claimed to know when the world would end.

Not once, not ever.

Nor did he imply in any way that he did.

Some pseudo-journalist with an ax to grind and a conspiracy-theorist level of deduction implied from a few small exhortations that the Pope must know the unknowable. Popes have made the similar proclamations about the state of global politics since the advent of global politics.

What he did was not even really noteworthy in his role as Pope.
 
We’ve all seen times when people say “Pope Francis said (fill in the blank),” and then when you see the actual quote, he didn’t.
The first thing I noticed about this article is that I don’t see one single direct quote of what His Holiness actually said. I have to wonder why he decided not to quote the Pope, if what he said is so concerning.
 
Ok, forget the article, article aside, does the Pope know when the world will end?
 
Jesus said that no one knows except the Father. But I was wondering if the Pope was an exception.
 
Why are Jesus’ own words not proof enough for you?

What part of “no one knows except the Father” is not clear?
 
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