Pope Francis by Nation Geographic

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(08-17-2015, 08:20 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Climate change for starters.  has nothing to do with his job.  

I haven't had my coffee yet, but he had loads of other stuff he injects into that doesn't need his attention.  

How about he focus on the human rights violations worldwide

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/15/world/pope-climate-change/

Quote:2. Since when do popes preach about the environment?
Since at least 1971, when Greenpeace was first setting sail and Al Gore was a cub reporter working the night shift at a newspaper in Tennessee.
In an apostolic letter that some Catholics call prophetic, Pope Paul VI wrote in May of that year:
"Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation."
Since then, popes have rung the environmental alarm with increasing urgency.
In 1990, Saint John Paul II dedicated his World Day of Peace message to looming climate catastrophes, warning that the depletion of the ozone layer and growth of greenhouse gases had reached "crisis proportions."
"Industrial waste, the burning of fossil fuels, unrestricted deforestation, the use of certain types of herbicides, coolants and propellants: all of these are known to harm the atmosphere and the environment," John Paul declared.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who succeeded John Paul, lamented the rise of "environmental refugees" forced to flee their homes by rising sea levels, parched fields and barren hunting grounds.
"The Church has a responsibility towards creation," Benedict wrote in a 2009 encyclical that also covered other forms of Christian charity, "and she must assert this responsibilit

And, really, going back to the foundation of the church, as man is supposed to be a good steward of it. But since at least the industrial revolution, the church has taken an interest in what we've done to what we were given. And how we're failing in that charge.