Green Pope Francis told a group of lawyers we are thinking about to introduce the category of “ecological sin” into official Catholic teaching.
We must introduce in the “Catechism” of the Catholic Church the “ecology sin” against the common home, because it is a duty, the pope said in addressing participants in an international conference on penal law.
More specifically, Francis said, are all those actions that can be considered as “ecocide,” for instance, “the massive contamination of air, land and water resources, the large-scale destruction of flora and fauna, and any action capable of producing an ecological disaster or destroying an ecosystem.”
Ecocide “is to be understood as the loss, damage or destruction of the ecosystems of a given territory, so that its utilization by inhabitants has been or can be seen as severely compromised,” he said, adding that such a sin is “a fifth category of crimes against peace, which should be recognized as such by the international community.”
The pontiff said that such actions are “usually” caused by corporations, and “an elementary sense of justice would require” that they be “punished” for them.
An ecological sin is “an action or omission against God, against one’s neighbor, the community and the environment,” Francis said, quoting the Fathers of the recently concluded Pan-Amazon Regional Synod.
“It is a sin against future generations and is manifested in acts and habits of pollution and destruction of the harmony of the environment, in transgressions against the principles of interdependence and in the breaking of networks of solidarity between creatures.”
“Above and beyond its sinfulness, failure to care for the environment is an injustice and a crime,” Francis suggested and should be legally enforced. “I would like to appeal to all the leaders and actors in this area to contribute their efforts to ensuring adequate legal protection for our common home,” he said.
The pope’s words coincided with the release of a new survey by the Pew Research Center, which found that church going Americans “accept” their clergy’s on spiritual matters, but generally “distrust” their advice on issues such as “climate” change.
Pew found that 68 percent of U.S. adults who attend religious services at least a few times a year say they have “a lot” of confidence in the advice of their clergy on “growing closer” to God, yet just a small fraction of this number (13 percent) say they have this confidence when the topic is “climate change.”
Thou Shalt Not Be a Climate Change Denier.
Pope Francis has thrown his “moral” weight behind the battle against “anthropogenic” climate change, but has also acknowledged that the Church has no “authority on scientific questions.”
In his 2015 encyclical letter on the environment, Francis urging nations and individuals to exercise more responsible “stewardship” of the created world, but insisted that he wanted to encourage “debate” rather than pronounce on environmental issues.
“On many concrete questions,” he wrote, “the Church has no reason to offer a definitive opinion; she knows that honest debate must be encouraged among experts, while respecting divergent views.”
“Here I would state once more that the Church does not presume to settle scientific questions or to replace politics,” Francis said.
“But I am concerned to encourage an honest and open debate so that particular interests or ideologies will not prejudice the common good.”
Not surprising that “Communist” Jorge Mario Bergoglio would want to “destroy” religion. Like many “Cult Leaders,” Francis is playing “god” and tries to rewrite the Catechism to fit his “personal” ideology.
Nowhere does it tell us in the Bible we can’t get into “Heaven” for not believing in “climate extremism.”
If you are claiming “ecological sins” you are in effect saying that the “sins are against God” rather than inanimate objects.
“There is no possible sin against planet Earth. When we abuse the natural world, people, animals or plants, we are sinning against God their creator, who gave them to us to use for the right purposes and in accordance with their nature and ours.”
The only “targets of sin” are people. The Cardinals will eventually have to rise up and remove this “Marxist” globalist.
I would not be surprised if Pope Francis soon substitutes the “Qur’an” for the “Bible” and thereby leading his “cult followers” straight to hell.
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