The Green Pope: By Daniel Stone
The article I am writing about today has to do with Pope Benedict XVI and how he is embracing environmentalism. This article talks about how he’s using church teachings to urge Roman Catholics to take care of the earth we live on.
Pope Benedict XVI has earned the title of “green pope” because he has embraced the move of having the Vatican outfitted with solar panels to be the key source of electricity. He also made sure that eco- restoration firm donated trees in a Hungarian national park to nullify all carbon emitted from Vatican City. The pope not only boosted efforts to make the Vatican City more environmentally efficient, he also uses Roman Catholic doctrine to emphasize humanity’s responsibility to care for the planet.
Pope Benedict announced that global citizens have to “focus on the needs of sustainable development” and that message was taken a step further when the church last month announced seven new sins that now required repentance, the number four sins was “polluting the environment.” Along with that were “causing social injustice’ and “becoming obscenely wealthy,” which are also supposedly linked to taking care of the earth.
When I read this article I have to say that I was very glad to hear that the pope was a strong believer in helping out the environment and that he had done all those things to improve the Vatican but I also wonder if he’s gone to far in actually stating that if you pollute or cause a certain social injustice or get wealthy it is counted as a sin?!?!? I don’t want to say that it sounds like a crazy thing to say but I guess that there could be people who follow the list of sins and who are going to actually do something about it, but what about all those other people that aren’t Roman Catholic!?!?!? Who’s going to get to them?
http://www.newsweek.com/id/132523/output
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