The 'greenest' Pope in history

[Bill_Cherry]

I take my hate off to all of you who have bothered to participate on this thread. There is global warming and climate change. You don’t have to be a scientist to be aware of this. However, being no scientist, I was lost amidst the technical jargon in some posts. I hope to keep up. I do notice that there have been relatively few posts on this thread. Is there a similar thread?

There are similar threads, but none devoted to B16’s stance. The general consensus seems to be that there is no real ‘official’ church stance on whether Climate change is man made or not. But, there is a stance that says we are effecting our environment and that something needs to be done.

It seems to me that the Holy Father’s stance is broader than the general political stance. For instance, in America there are energy bills that also want to keep the medicaid availability of abortion. It is sort of tacked on the the bill. I guess that makes it ‘pork’.Because of this the pro lifer’s are up in arms over the energy and environmental bills before congress. Even though it is not new, the ‘Beckies’ and ‘Palinites’ are acting as if it is new. Which only serves to keep the faithful divided over the issues.

There is no reason why one can not support the pro life stance and environmental causes other than the political parties muddling of the two issues.

 

[severus68]

There are similar threads, but none devoted to B16’s stance. The general consensus seems to be that there is no real ‘official’ church stance on whether Climate change is man made or not. But, there is a stance that says we are effecting our environment and that something needs to be done.

It seems to me that the Holy Father’s stance is broader than the general political stance. For instance, in America there are energy bills that also want to keep the medicaid availability of abortion. It is sort of tacked on the the bill. I guess that makes it ‘pork’.Because of this the pro lifer’s are up in arms over the energy and environmental bills before congress. Even though it is not new, the ‘Beckies’ and ‘Palinites’ are acting as if it is new. Which only serves to keep the faithful divided over the issues.

There is no reason why one can not support the pro life stance and environmental causes other than the political parties muddling of the two issues.

Thanks for the update. I am not American so don’t know everything about Amreican politics.

Absolutely, why not pro liife and pro the life of this planet.