Pope Delivers Green Message
Pope Benedict XVI Urges Young People To Care For The Planet, Calls For Sharing Of Water
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Youths greet Pope Benedict XVI, left, during a gathering with an estimated 300,000 young pilgrims on a field in Loreto, central Italy, to listen to Pope Benedict XVI, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Sandro Perozzi)
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Youths cheer as the hold a "We are from Montalto" banner, before Pope Benedict XVI, during a gathering with an estimated 300,000 young pilgrims on a field in Loreto, central Italy, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Sandro Perozzi)
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Benedict offered a very eco-friendly message during an open-air Mass on the second day of a weekend religious youth rally in the pilgrimage town of Loreto that was organized by the Italian bishops' conference.
The Italian Church has designated Sept. 1 as "Save Creation Day," and as a result the Loreto meeting carried a strong environmental message, with each of the participants given biodegradable plates, recycling bags for their trash and a hand-cranked cell-phone recharger.
Benedict told the crowd, camped out under umbrellas and tents on a vast, dusty field on the Adriatic coast, that it was up to them to urgently save the planet from development that had often ignored "nature's delicate equilibrium."
"Before it's too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth," Benedict said in his homily. "We need a decisive 'yes' to care for creation and a strong commitment to reverse those trends that risk making the situation of decay irreversible."
He said water, in particular, was a "precious" resource that needed to be preserved since "it unfortunately becomes a source of strong tensions and conflicts if it isn't shared in an equitable and peaceful manner."
Benedict has been on something of a green campaign of late, lamenting just this past week the environmental impact of recent forest fires in Italy and Greece. During his recent summer vacation in the mountains, he spoke frequently about the importance of nature - God's creation - in rekindling spirituality.
Under Benedict, the Vatican has been taking some concrete steps toward greater environmental sustainability. It has joined a reforestation project aimed at offsetting its CO2 emissions, and has also said it was installing photovoltaic cells on the roof of its main auditorium to convert sunlight into electricity.
An estimated 500,000 people turned out for Benedict's Mass, the ANSA news agency said, citing police. Most of them spent the night camped out on tarps and tents on the field down the hill from Loreto, Italy's most important shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
As dawn rose over them Sunday, the field appeared to be a great multicolored mosaic, with participants donning the brightly colored sun hats provided by organizers to shade them from the blistering sun.
The meeting was an Italian warm-up for next year's World Youth Day, in Sydney, Australia, which the 80-year-old pope plans to attend.
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I''m not sure, but I heard a rumour that air was rather important too, there Einstein. Just shows how stupid phony pagan baboons really are when you need to tell each other that. Who are you fooling? I know you are Ashkenazi and Eqyptian posers. Real Arabs and Israelis are born with Allah watching them. We don''t need your magic hand movemovents and witchcraft and voodoo propaganda. You are society worshiping talking monkeys. Society watches you. Just actors and clowns impressing each other with who can fool the most people for the most time. Catholic has nothing to do with God. Just another in crowd out crowd society bond. A gladiator sports team.
Go back to your zodiac fish heads and lions. You''ll never get it any more than you can give a gorilla a conscience. As a matter of fact, there might be more hope for gorillas.
This is a rather lengthy expose of the Detroux pedophile affair involving Euro-trash fascists, particularly those in Belium and their American associates as well as ties to Craig Spence, Colonel Aquino and blackmail schemes aimed at political figures in Washington and elsewhere.
This connects right up with the Franklin Affair and the perverts who have been exposed over the last few years...from the boy toys for hire whose midnight White House tour made headlines under Bush41 to the male prostitute who spent overnighters at the White House under Bush43.
The people are debased, vile and contemptible and should be brought down.
http://www.pehi.eu/dutroux/Belg
ian_X_dossiers_of_the_Dutroux_affair.htm
Of course, the ABCCBSNBCPBSFOXCNN Network will tell you all about Senator "Wide Stance" but somehow the all-seeing eye is blind when it comes to addressing the murder, kidnapping, torture and prostitution of children by ''important'' circles of the ruling class, their occultists, their Pentagon and security aparatchiki...and the cover-ups by the their State''s ''justice'' departments.
In fact, there''s a method of mining particular to water''s extra-ordinary properties like this called "leeching". In Uranium mines you need lots and lots of water to saturate the air. Water vapor particles are like magnets on harmful dust thats in the air. And in a Uranium mine, dust is especially potent because those are alpha particles, and have a half life of about 500 years. Yup, they collect on the water droplets, fall down and collect in the gutter, flow downhill and get pumped up to surface where the alpha particles are actually mined or "leeched" by boiling off the water.
And you can leech anything. You can leech salt water..
Save the water?
How about shut down the auto industry to allow oxygen to permeate the air space instead of toxic deadly fumes.
Save the ecological environment?
How about stop using weapons of mass destruction which kills all environmental life as well animal life and then finally human life. Duh.
Sounds like the Pope is gesturing to distract from the issues at hand regarding his private club.
I think he turned me all the way off when he declared that he worried for the safety of his catholic christians followers in Iraq! Um, what about the militia of ALL tribes who are fighting for their lives? What about the children of ALL tribes suffering and dying in the midst of that fighting?
AND SINCE HE IS SOOOOOO CONCERNED, HOW ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL LIFE IN IRAQ?????
Dear Catholics, shut your sick selves down voluntarily and with humility and take your great "leader" with you. Your tunnel vision is dangerous to all around you.
Meanwhile a new basilica is being built in Oakland at a cost of $190 million dollars.
Then there''s the $500 - $600 million dollars in hush money that''s being paid out by the Los Angeles diocese.
How much time and energy is spent stealing / collecting this money from elderly pensioners who are conned into donating their life savings for such noble endeavors as listed above? How, in the name of god, can these alleged religious figures frivolously waste this money?
Why doesn''t the Vatican do something about rogue churches and denominations that openly support presidential, congressional, or senatorial candidates? Shouldn''t they have to honor the separation of church and state? If they aren''t, shouldn''t they have to pay income and property taxes like any other lobbying / PAC organization?
Posted by JesusFace at 10:03 AM : Sep 02, 2007
What you''re asking is for BlondMadison to willing accept intellectual enslavement as you obviously have.....
Also, when things are CREATED aren''t they fixed and unchanging? Is he trying to tell us that things WE do can make things different, dare I say - evolve?
Also, when things are CREATED aren''t they fixed and unchanging? Is he trying to tell us that things WE do can make things different, dare I say - evolve?
Green earth can wait.
We want all the Fr. Pedophiles off the pulpit forever!
Posted by JesusFace at 10:03 AM : Sep 02, 2007
Dear "JesusFace", does your love of god translate to ''it''s fine that priests in multitudes are sexually molesting our children'' and ''it''s fine that priests inside their private club of Holier Than Thou "Catholicism" are extremely political inside their private club where walking with the Father has zero to do with politics?''
You keep your sick twisted version of "God" to yourself. And, using the name of ''Jesus'' does not commit you to higher levels of anything but fraud and idiocy.
. You''ve got a personal relationship with Jesus, check his green card,, he''s been dead for quite a long time..
.. He''s certanly not the One & Only God or even a God -- He prayed to one. -------- Who came 1st Rick, Jesus or Moses ?????
Thank you for your point of view. I am certain it matters.
Sick and twisted because I walk with the Father and I remain an open receptacle to his advice and instructions. None of them include politics and religion or how to make money. They also do not include honoring one single person as the only son of the father. The father of life is about reality, not mental horsesh-t.
Every blade of grass is a son of the father. Every apple on every tree, sons of the father. Every single live organism of life on the only planet of life is a direct decendant of the Father of life.
I walk with the Father and I do not need to be sermonized on how to open up to anything.
Furthermore, he is not a god and he never was a god. He was then and always will be, the Father of Life on the only planet of life in this galaxy where all adults force walk babies thru a way of selling something for food, water, shelter and/or to become abnormally famous feeding an eccentric, perverse ego.
What you actually are are incestuous mental patients. Incestuous by staying within your various and assorted tribes making babies like jack rabbits so your tribes could be big in numbers to force walk all thru your illness of being psycho-tic while marching 90 miles an hour backwards and upside down to your deaths.
Sick and twisted. Open yourself up to reality for a change of pace and leave Jesus out of it.
If this is all the familial emotional, spiritual support you people have to offer babies, SHUT DOWN. SHUT DOWN. SHUT DOWN.
-- God is listening & is waiting for your answer on why you replaced him with a man & somehow think he wasn''t a Jew or would have supported Zionism & why you think he came before Moses.
-- God is listening & is waiting for your answer on why you replaced him with a man & somehow think he wasn''''t a Jew or would have supported Zionism & why you think he came before Moses.
Posted by j-whitman at 05:54 PM : Sep 02, 2007
Please give it a rest...
You are a non-believer so what do you care.
Catholicism is dead.
Posted by jeff92706 at 06:39 PM : Sep 02, 2007
Surely you jest!
Roman Catholic membership is up 9% - Protestant down 11% (during last 9 years in USA)
What do you care anyway?
BTW - Please use Spell check next time.
Those two works of deviance were the first real propaganda''s published. One tribe against the other. Both get to choose to kill each other.
All forms of life is nothing BUT sacred to the Father. Big Duh Here.
Stop the scripture recital. Cut the *** with competitive statistics which may not even be true.
Want to compare your competition with something? Compare your numbers to how many exist on this earth and you might get a real view of how minor your numbers are in comparison to human life on this planet. Then compare your numbers to all live organisms which cannot be counted.
Life is about love for all of life. Life being sacred for all live organisms to live. Want to count and brag? Go busy yourself counting the grains of sand in the Sahara.
Know each other by your spirit and by your good works, if you can amount to any. Try that one.
BOTTOM LINE: YOUR WAY DID NOT WORK.
So take your politics, your so called academics, your religions and your bibles and qurans and shove them somewhere!
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by hiddenhorse1
September 2, 2007 8:25 PM PDT
- Get to work taking our valleys back! if you want to apply yourselves in a work for the good of all.
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See all 26 CommentsBegin with insurance companies.
Organize a nice group of lovely peoples of all ages. In the dead of night, empty the building/s, plural out of all furniture and equipment. Perform a demolition of the building and remove all debris.
Then plant gardens on the patch of land. Gardens. Trees, fruits, vegetables, flowers, all types of vegetation.
Submit to WE WANT OUR VALLEYS BACK TO COMBINE OURSELVES WITH THE ORIGINAL PLAN FOR THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
Then proceed to junk food companies, auto industry and on and on until most businesses for nothing but money are removed from this planet.
Get a clue complacents whining. Shut up and get to work cleaning up the mess you participated in making. It is now a toxic and dangerous environment.