(Fox News) – Pope Francis wraps
up the first leg of a three-nation South American pilgrimage Wednesday after
issuing an impassioned call for a new
economic and ecological world order where the goods of the Earth are shared by
everyone, not just exploited by the rich.
Francis will visit the elderly
and give a pep talk to local priests before flying to Bolivia, where the
environment, ministering to the poor and the government’s tense relations with
the Catholic Church are high on the agenda. Bolivian President Evo Morales, an
Aymara Indian known for anti-imperialist and socialist rhetoric, will greet
Francis at the airport and join him for a speech to local officials and
diplomats before the pontiff goes to the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. The stop
in La Paz is being kept to four hours to spare the 78-year-old pope from the
taxing 4,000-meter (13,120-foot) elevation. Special Headline: Guess Who’s About
To Go Bankrupt in America [Learn More] Francis and Morales have met on several
occasions, most recently in October when the president, a former coca farmer,
participated in a Vatican summit of grassroots groups of indigenous and
advocates for the poor who have been championed by Francis. Their shared views
on the need for wealthy countries to drastically change course to address
climate change bump up against Morales’ anti-clerical initiatives that have
roiled relations with the local church. Taking up the global warming issue in
Quito on Tuesday, Francis pressed the arguments made in his headline-grabbing
encyclical earlier this month that the planet must not be exploited by the
wealthy few for short-term profit at the expense of the poor. “As stewards of
these riches which we have received, we have an obligation toward society as a
whole and toward future generations,” Francis said. “We cannot bequeath this
heritage to them without proper care for the environment, without a sense of
gratuitousness born of our contemplation of the created world.” His call was
particularly relevant for Ecuador, a Pacific nation that is home to one of the
world’s most species-diverse ecosystems but is also an OPEC country heavily
dependent on oil extraction. He delivered the challenge in back-to-back
speeches at Catholic University and a meeting with business leaders and
indigenous groups, the latter of which have championed his encyclical. “The
goods of the Earth are meant for everyone, and however much someone may parade
his property, it has a social mortgage,” Francis said. “The tapping of natural
resources, which are so abundant in Ecuador, must not be concerned with
short-term benefits.” SPECIAL: We must declare war on those who want to
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PARTY WAR PLEDGE and donate to fund our continuing fight! Ecuadorean President
Rafael Correa has been harshly criticized by environmentalists and indigenous
groups for pushing mining and oil drilling in the Amazon, which together with
the Galapagos Islands give Ecuador an unrivaled designation as one of the
Earth’s environmental priorities. That push, coupled with high crude prices,
allowed Correa to lift 1.3 million people out of poverty in his eight years in
office. Francis has called for environmentally responsible development, one
that is aimed at helping the poor without sacrificing the planet. The oil
industry and its supporters, particularly in the U.S., have criticized the
pope’s anti-fossil fuel campaign as irresponsible and uninformed. Francis is likely
to repeat his message in Bolivia, South America’s poorest country. Morales has
been hailed as an environmental hero to many for demanding rich nations do more
to halt global warming, but he has been assailed by conservationists at home
who say he puts oil and gas extraction ahead of clean water and forests. The
pope will spend the rest of his Bolivian stay in Santa Cruz, where he will
headline another summit of grassroots groups and visit with inmates at the
notoriously violent Palmasola prison. After that he is going to Paraguay.
Source:http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/07/08/pope-wraps-ecuador-leg-south-america-trip-after-calling-for-new-ecological/
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Comments
The Pope has some “spleenin’ to do”. If he actually thinks that “new world order”
can be accomplished through UN Agenda 21, he is a Communist. If he calls for individual property rights
for and no death tax, then he is advocating for freedom for families to become
self-supporting and he would be right.
Because he is hanging out with the UN crowd
and using their terminology, I don’t hold out much hope for Pope Francis to
escape the clutches of the “puppet masters”. He looks like he’s caught in the
same trap that corrupted the bad Popes of the past. If so, he has joined the
ranks of Popes who were corrupted by the medieval kings of Europe from 400 AD
through the 1700s.
If he is criticizing the current form of
global crony capitalism, he is correct; it is corrupt. If he is criticizing a true free market and
would support the global carbon tax scam, he is dangerous.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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