Pope Francis tied a lack of water in different parts of the world to global warming Sunday, calling it one of the “inevitable consequences of climate change.”
In his message for World Water Day 2019, the pope called for education of future generations with greater respect for the environment and a greater awareness of the suffering caused by climate change.
This educational challenge will produce “generations that value and love the resources that our mother the Earth gives us,” he said.
The pontiff also decried the spread of droughts and waterless areas and urged the international community to come to the assistance of those impacted by the phenomenon.
“It may be seen in our days how the aridity of the planet is extending to new regions, and more and more are suffering as a result of the lack of water sources suitable for consumption,” Francis lamented, while calling for “an end to this injustice” and reiterating his conviction that access to clean water is “a fundamental human right.”
The disadvantaged of the earth “challenge us to find a remedy for the lack of water in their countries,” he said, “they also challenge us, from their poverty and limits, to accord the just value to this good, essential for the development of all peoples.”
This is not the first time that the pope has weighed in on water conservation. It has been, in fact, a recurring theme since the beginning of his pontificate in 2013 and he is the only pope in history to write an encyclical letter on the environment.
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Two years ago, Francis addressed the international summit “Water and Climate: Meeting of the Great Rivers of the World,” sponsored by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in which he expressed his concern for water conservation around the world, as well as his fervent desire that “the threat posed by climate change to our brothers and sisters in the most vulnerable countries will find prompt and effective responses.”
Last fall, the pontiff called the lack of safe drinking water in the world an “immense shame,” adding that better access to drinking water must be provided to people around the globe.
People dying from the lack of clean water “is an immense shame for humanity in the 21st century,” he said, yet “unfortunately, in many of the countries where the population does not have regular access to drinking water, there is no shortage of arms and ammunition, which continues to worsen the situation.”
The pope’s frequent comments on the topic of water have even led to criticism from with his own Jesuit order, with warnings that he risks making the Church sound like just one more social justice NGO with no unique message for humanity.
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In a powerful essay last October, Jesuit Father James V. Schall suggested that Pope Francis has invested much time and effort into political and secular topics such as climate change and immigration while seemingly downplaying key issues of Catholic moral teaching.
Father Schall, a prominent intellectual who taught political science at Georgetown University for many years, took issue specifically with the pope’s Letter on the World’s Day of Prayer for Creation, which focused on access “to clean water,” a topic that would seem to fall outside the specific mission of the Catholic Church.
“Christ walked on water, turned water into wine, helped a woman at a well draw it up, and was baptized with it in the Jordan,” Schall noted. “He never designed a dam to provide water for Nazareth or Jerusalem. He evidently assumed that men could eventually figure this task out without the need of revelation.”
“A pope can mention the problem of water availability or other such issues, but his is not the task to provide technical solutions even if he had a doctorate in water engineering,” he added.
More importantly, many people of good “will wonder why, if the pope can talk of clean water, he cannot talk about his own record or what he holds on issues that certainly do fall within his competency. These latter issues are what perplex people,” he said.
“Pope Bergoglio himself seems willing to talk about almost every subject but his own beliefs and record,” he said.
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God needs a new coach .
Comments like this from someone who thinks Islam is a religion of peace. Hahahahahaha. One who deliberately leaves Christians getting murdered in Africa because “their paperwork wasn’t in order”, but bringing illegal Muslims to Italy.
Pope has ostrich head in the sand syndrome.
Doddering fool. He does not realize that the modern environmental movement with their anti-human genocidal bent represents the Antichrist. One more that does not understand that the entire universe made by whatever entity you wish to believe in is in constant motion, which is termed Change.
The Pope can relax , the screen generation won’t replace itself .
Where does he get this rubbish ? There may be areas that are short of water but thanks to all that global warming water will not be another bed wetting alarmist fraud . Or is the spin …well if we can just set the earth’s thermostat through a trace gas we can make sure all that Italian wine is turned to water .
Has the Pope forgot one of the Ten Comandments? THOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GOD BEFORE ME it looks like the Pope is into worshiping the Creation instead of the Creator
You’re onto him. He has strayed.
The Pope, or more accurately who ever is pulling the Pope’s strings, is poorly informed. The IPCC has admitted that extreme weather events are not become more common, and that would include droughts. I once read an article about an extensive thirty year study that showed the percentage of the earth under drought is constant, but the areas impacted are always changing.
However, I have read articles that appear to be by legitimate scientists stating we are at risk of water shortages. The problem isn’t enough water, it is having water that is fit to drink.
Rather than climate change the Pope himself is a factor in water some shortages. One way for an item to be in short supply is not to have much of it. The other way is if the demand keeps increasing. The Pope opposes birth control. This results in an expanding population and therefore an increased demand for water.
Of all the popes Francis is a total fraud as authentic as a 3 dollar bill a false prophet why they selected him is way beyond common sense
Pope Francis and the Socialists…
strange bedfellows.
The Socialists despise Christianity and its anti-abortion Right to Lifers. The Pope is wasting his time.
As a catholic, the pope’s activist activity is disturbing, especially with all the other problems he could be focused on, like letting in migrants over the Vatican’s walls so they can sleep in tents in St. Petersburgh square.