Catholic Cardinal warns of a possible collapse of the earth's livability.

[pnwmom]

https://www.ncronline.org/news/environment/cardinal-warns-possible-collapse-earths-livability-vatican-event

The Vatican's secretary of state warned July 5 that humanity is facing a "possible collapse" in the Earth's ability to sustain life, as part of a two-day conference hosted by the Catholic Church to urge global leaders to mitigate the devastating impacts of climate change.

In an address opening the "Saving Our Common Home" event, Cardinal Pietro Parolin said there is a "clear urgency" to the task and that people around the world, "as members of the common household, need to come together."

The Vatican's Dicastery for Integral Human Development is hosting the July 5-6 event among some 400 global faith leaders, scientists and politicians with hopes to influence separate meetings later this year of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the U.N. Climate Change Conference.

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Cardinal Peter Turkson, the head of the dicastery, opened the event by saying the planet is "on the brink of an unprecedented global catastrophe." He said effects of climate change, including warming temperatures and rising sea levels, "place a question mark on the very future of human existence."

"Is our world listening? Or do we find new ways of inviting our world to listen?" Turkson asked, before telling participants: "That will be part of the task of our gathering here."

The Vatican event, which Francis will address July 6, is being organized in three consecutive parts: examining the current state of global environmental concerns, discerning the best actions to take, and inspiring a "massive movement" to care for the Earth.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. Needs to start telling his underlings to instruct their flocks to stop voting for conservatives...

or whatever party the deniers inhabit.

[pnwmom]

2. That's against the law. Priests aren't allowed to recommend candidates, or parties,

only to speak on issues.

[MFM008]

8. The flock

Should KNOW voting gop IS voting for the pollution.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Now we know why we have not had contact with

alien civilizations. If they are even remotely like us, they don't survive very far past their development of technology and their exploitation of their planet's resources.

[world wide wally]

4. I guess the logic must be that it is well worth it as long as they can outlaw abortion in the USA

[pnwmom]

5. What is worth it? The Catholic Church does not support the Republican party.

And by law it cannot support either party.

All it can do is speak out on issues -- and when it speaks out about poverty, and refugees, and the climate, and the death penalty, and racism, anyone listening would be drawn to the Democrats.

[world wide wally]

9. I wasn't talking about the church....I was talking about Republican voters and Trump

[NickB79]

6. Promote birth control among your congregations then.

7.5 billion humans is more than enough to satisfy God's demand to be fruitful and multiply.

[pnwmom]

7. Catholics are already as likely as the average American to use birth control.

Catholics are obviously making up their own minds.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-most-catholic-women-us-use-birth-cont/most-catholic-women-in-u-s-use-birth-control-idUSTRE73D4SZ20110414

BOSTON (Reuters Life!) - Some 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women in the United States have used contraceptive methods banned by the church, research published on Wednesday showed.

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The findings nearly match previous NSFG data from 2002, which showed that 97 percent of Catholic women were using birth control, and are consistent with a trend tracked over the last decade by Catholics for Choice.

[NickB79]

10. Not talking about American Catholics

http://www.globalization101.org/the-battle-over-birth-control-for-developing-nations/

[pnwmom]

11. The problem is economics, not people listening to the Pope. As incomes go up,

and availability goes up, families are more and more apt to use birth control.

And that article quotes Pope Benedict, by the way. Pope Francis is pope, and he has deemphasized "black and white" rules about contraception and sexuality.