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December 9, 2015

Pope Francis Found Guilty by ITCCS of Two Counts of Committing and Aiding or Abetting Crimes Against Humanity, Including the Trafficking of Children

Standing arrest warrant against Jorge Bergoglio is delivered to US State Department by Interpol office in Brussels – A similar warrant compelled the resignation of Pope Benedict

September 21, 2015

A Breaking ITCCS News Flash: 21 September, 2015
(As reported on Radio Free Kanata and through global wire services)

Washington DC:

On the verge of the arrival to the United States of Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio, the American government has received from Interpol a copy of an outstanding arrest warrant against Bergoglio issued by the International Common Law Court of Justice (ICLCJ) on July 18, 2014. On that date, Bergoglio was found guilty as charged by the Court on two counts of committing and aiding or abetting crimes against humanity, including the trafficking of children, and sentenced in absentia to twenty five years imprisonment.

According to a source in Interpol, a copy of the arrest warrant was delivered to the US State Department by special courier on Friday, September 18, along with a formal request to the American government to comply with the terms of the arrest warrant and detain the named offender, Jorge Bergoglio.

The issuing of a similar warrant by a European government to the Vatican in early February, 2013 compelled the sudden resignation of former Pope Benedict, who was similarly convicted by the ICLCJ that same month.

Pope Francis – Bergoglio already faces protests and disruptions of his five day American tour following his controversial decision to “canonize” a genocidal catholic missionary and attend a Philadelphia gathering reputedly linked to an in-house catholic child trafficking network. (see www.itccs.org, September 12, 2015)

“These controversies will make it difficult for the Obama government to simply ignore the Interpol notice and standing arrest warrant” commented Kevin Annett today from New York City, where he and an ITCCS delegation are meeting with United Nations officials regarding Bergoglio’s visit.

“Jorge Bergoglio is a duly convicted felon, and the ICLCJ warrant carries with it the force of international law. By ignoring it the United States can justifiably be charged with giving aid and comfort to a wanted criminal and colluding in a war crime”.

Issued by the Central Office of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS)
21 September, 2015
www.itccs.org

Copy of the original arrest warrant summoning Jorge Bergoglio into Court:

October 17, 2015

(The False Prophet) Pope Francis Wants to Decentralize the Catholic Church to Pave the Way for the One-world Religion of One-world Government (Kingdom of Antichrist)

Maybe Pope Francis will be the one who establishes the "One World Religion" under the guise of peaceful resolutions for all nations. Prophesies in the Book of Revelation must be fulfilled...period! Those who are not well-versed in biblical scriptures will be easily deceived.

In July 2009, Pope Benedict XVI called for world government by stating that we needed a “true world political authority.” In December 2009, the Pope made the following statement: "It is important to acknowledge that among the causes of the present ecological crisis is the historical responsibility of the industrialized countries." The Pope continued by saying: "This means that technologically advanced societies must be prepared to encourage more sober lifestyles, while reducing their energy consumption and improving its efficiency." The Pope should understand that “climate change” is a lie, it’s not something man has caused; rather, it’s the natural cycles of the sun and its effect on our planet. This is all being done under the guise of “climate change;” let the world unite as one to stop this disaster, we are told. [Source]

Climate Change Scare is Population Reduction, Not Science

September 20, 2015

IceCap.US - This statement was written by Paul Driessen as a message to EIR’s September 22, 2015 press conference in Manhattan, announcing the release of the special report, “‘Global Warming’ Scare is Population Reduction, Not Science.” The report features a lengthy interview with Driessen.

One of the dark undersides of the extreme environmental movement is its long obsession with population control. Once linked to alleged resource depletion and global famine, human population control is now tied to the assertion that our Earth cannot possibly meet everyone’s aspirations for modern housing, transportation, energy and living standards ... without causing irreversible climate change and sustainability disasters.

It is also driven by claims that human populations must be reduced and then limited to some arbitrary “carrying capacity.” President Obama’s Science Adviser John Holdren and Pope Francis’ senior climate change adviser Hans Joachim Schellnhuber both say our planet’s maximum carrying capacity is a mere one billion people. (See the special report on the unholy alliance that has been advising Pope Francis on the environment and climate change here. )

Naturally, they are carefully and deliberately vague about exactly HOW we are supposed to “progress” from 7.2 billion men, women and children on our planet today - or a projected 9.6 billion people in 2050 - to just one billion some years from now.

They prefer not to discuss how six to 8.5 billion people are to be removed from the human gene pool...which billions must perish...and who gets to decide. It’s all cloaked in pious, ecological, euphemistic language. However, statements by prominent environmentalists offer solid clues.

Mr. Holdren and Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich have written: “We need to de-develop the United States” and other developed countries, “to bring our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation.” We must then address the “ecologically feasible development of the underdeveloped countries.” [emphasis added - from their Human Ecology book]

Ehrlich also said: “Giving society cheap energy is like giving an idiot child a machine gun.” Even more outrageous, he claimed that the “instant death control” provided by DDT was “responsible for the drastic lowering of death rates” in poor countries. Since those people were not practicing birth control, certainly not at the level he deems necessary, they need to have a “death rate solution” imposed on them.

And so radical environmentalists have waged campaigns against using DDT as a powerful insect repellant to prevent malaria. They oppose modern fertilizers and biotech foods that feed more people from less land, using less water, and even during floods or droughts.

They are also viscerally against all forms of carbon-based and nuclear energy, which yield far more reliable and affordable energy, and far more energy per acre than wind, solar and biofuel alternatives.

These statements and policies make several things abundantly clear.

In the view of population control advocates - mostly less educated, darker skinned people in mostly poor, underdeveloped countries are less desirable, and less worth saving, than people in richer, mostly Caucasian countries. People in the political, ruling classes must be exempt from decisions about population control, resource allocation, housing, travel and living standards.

And someone must decide how many people, having which skills, will be needed to feed and clothe - and provide energy, raw materials and technologies for whatever portion of that remaining one billion people are not in those ruling classes.

From my perspective, it is a crime against humanity to impose policies that pretend to protect the world’s most energy-deprived masses from hypothetical, computer-generated climate, resource depletion and other catastrophes decades from now - by perpetuating energy deprivation, poverty, malnutrition and disease that now kill millions of people every year.

These are all fascinating issues. One has to wonder how the vast majority of the world’s people feel about them - and who will ask President Obama, Pope Francis, Ban Ki Moon and UN climate director Christiana Figueres some of these very troubling and inconvenient questions.

Pope calls for church that is far more decentralized

October 17, 2015

AP - Pope Francis called Saturday for a Catholic Church that is far more decentralized, where the laity play a greater role, bishops conferences take care of certain problems, and even the papacy is rethought.

Francis issued the call during a ceremony Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the institution of the Synod of Bishops, a consultative body formed during the Second Vatican Council that was intended precisely to encourage more collegiality in the running of the church by inviting bishops to offer their advice to Rome.

Over the past five decades, the synod has been little more than a talk-fest. But Francis has sought to re-energize it, and the contentious meeting under way at the Vatican, in which conservative and progressive bishops are squaring off over ministering to families, has been the result.

Francis noted that he launched the family synod process two years ago by sending out a questionnaire to Catholic families around the world asking for their input — a strong sign that ordinary lay Catholics have an important role to play in the governance of the church and spreading the faith.
"How would it have been possible to talk about the family without engaging families, listening to their joys and hopes, their pain and anxieties?" he said.
One of the main themes running through the current synod is whether individual bishops' conferences can take on greater responsibility in charting pastoral strategies to deal with issues like ministering to gays and divorced and civilly remarried couples. Conservatives insist that only Rome can offer such doctrinal guidelines; progressives say the local churches know better what individual circumstances require.

In his speech, Francis said the church needed to reflect further on "intermediate types of collegiality" involving bishops, even going back to some aspects of the greatly decentralized church of the past.

Finally, he said a truly collegial church has implications for the papacy — and therefore relations with other Christian churches that split from Rome precisely over the primacy of the pope.

Francis has been keen to insist that he is perhaps first and foremost the bishop of Rome.
"The pope is not, all by himself, above the church but rather inside it as a baptized Catholic among other baptized Catholics, and inside the episcopal college as a bishop among bishops," he said.
At the same time, he added, the pope is called "to guide the church of Rome that presides in the love of all the churches."

Comments at Yahoo!

There is no doubt at all that the Catholic Church has been taken over by the "gay lobby" which was evidently involved in the shooting of JPII and the wrestling takedown of B16. The result is Francis and his alliance as with J23 with the Communist establishment to create the proletariat and to then take over the "means of production". Capitalism is through and the "entitled" will rule the earth.

I am very concerned. The world is rejecting natural law at a pace unlike that in human history, and Pope Francis wants to shrink? Man is becoming mechanical in all things, and the Pope wants Rome to cease and desist?

September 24, 2015

The Pope Himself Will Declare All World Religions To Be United, and the New World Order Religion Based on the Worship of 'Mother Earth' Will Be Born



Pope Francis and Cardinal Tagle of Manila, flashing the Illuminati horned hand signal during the Pope's visit to Manila, Philippines?



On March 13, 2013, the Catholic cardinals elected a new pope after just two days of deliberations, selecting 76-year-old Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio on the fifth vote. He has taken the name of Francis and was not considered to be one of the front runners. He is the first Jesuit pope and the first non-European pope since the 8th century. It has been 1,272 years since a non-European pope led the Church, and is particularly appropriate today, as the number of Catholics have declined in Europe, but grown significantly throughout Latin America. It is now home to 41 percent of Catholics and is “perceived as a Catholic bedrock that needs support to counter the tremendous growth of Protestantism.” Latin America is also home to a replica of Solomon's Temple, which was inaugurated in Brazil on July 31, 2014.

In a relatively short time: "Pope Francis has earned wide-spread admiration for his modesty and concerns for the poor and oppressed as well as his liberal pronouncements on a broad range of issues, from same-sex marriage and the excesses of capitalism to the threat of climate change. However, while addressing lawmakers from both parties on super-charged issues such as climate change, the pope may have to walk a fine line between spiritual leader and public policy advocate."

Pope Francis landed on U.S. soil for the first time just before 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday, September 22, 2015, launching a six-day visit. Francis became the fourth head of the Catholic Church to visit the United States, nearly 50 years after Paul VI made the first visit by a pontiff to the country in October 1965. Thursday could be the most politically significant day of his trip, with the first-ever joint address to Congress by a pontiff. He'll then head to New York, where he will host a religious service at the ground zero site of the September 11 attacks in 2001 and address the United Nations. His trip ends Sunday in Philadelphia [which is the eve of the final blood red of the tetrad, a rare super moon]. While he is certain of a warm welcome, Francis' trip will include uncomfortable moments — as is typical of a pontiff who has disrupted the status quo and questioned the morality of modern society. He is certain to emphasize one of the central themes of his papacy — that the unfettered capitalism practiced in the United States and the West is fostering income inequality and creating an economic culture where the poor are simply discarded. In a highly symbolic moment, Francis will pass on lunch with lawmakers after addressing Congress and will dine instead with homeless people in Washington.While he is expected to praise U.S. founding ideals of democracy and freedom, Francis could also wade onto dangerous political ground. [Source]



On September 24, 2015, upon invitation by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), the pope deliverd an "historic address" to Congress. He was welcomed enthusiastically to a House chamber packed with Supreme Court justices, Cabinet officials, and lawmakers of both parties, uniting the bickering factions as all stood to cheer his arrival. The sergeant at arms intoned "Mr. Speaker, the pope of the Holy See," and Francis made his way up the center aisle in his white robes, moving slowly as lawmakers applauded, some inclining their heads in bows. He spoke from the same dais where presidents deliver their State of the Union speeches. Behind him sat Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner, the first and second in line to the presidency, both Catholics. He reiterated his stance on climate change, "the environmental deterioration caused by human activity" [the day before he was cheered by jubilant crowds as he visited the White House — where he and President Barack Obama embraced each other's warnings on climate change]. According to The Associated Press, "Francis, 78, enjoys approval ratings the envy of any U.S. politician as he's remade the image of the Catholic Church toward openness and compassion, yet without changing fundamental church doctrine. Addressing a chamber full of elected officials, he may have been the most adept politician in the room."

In a leaked Vatican encyclical intended for a broad church, Pope Francis falls squarely on the side of current scientific thinking [of scientists paid by the government to support its bogus theory that man is the primary cause of changes in the climate]. As The New York Times reports, the pope doesn't have a rosy view of our environmental condition. He said: "The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish." The pope said he supported stricter environmental laws. He insisted that "most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases." This he put down to the way that humans have chosen to live. Those who align their politics with the notion that climate change isn't man-made have been critical of the pope. Water vapor is the overwhelming greenhouse gas [it is 30 to 50 times more important than carbon dioxide (CO2)], and CO2 attributed to man is minuscule. Yet government-paid scientists claim HUMAN-INDUCED CO2 is the primary climate driver and must be eliminated to save the earth. Of course, man is prideful enough to think he is a major player when in actuality man is an insignificant producer of CO2.

There is always climate change, a fact that has been universally recognized from time immemorial. But the mendacious implication that a naturally variable climate is the result of the harmless and beneficial tiny trace gas CO2 has been repeatedly falsified. Carbon dioxide [which the scientifically illiterate refer to as "carbon"] is as essential to life on Earth as H2O; life could not exist without CO2. CO2 causes NO measurable rise in temperature. None. For the touchy-feely boneheads, I repeat: NONE. There is no “climate crisis,” and those promoting that canard are trying to scam the public. They are either as dishonest as any common thief, or they are ignorant. Most likely both. The current climate is entirely normal, and well within its historical parameters. In fact, the current climate is quite benign. Only the ignorant and the scam artists tell you otherwise. [CarbonOffsetDaily]
Follow the money. Somebody is looking to make a killing out of "global warning" panic. Climate change is like a new religion: to question is blasphemy and a crime against nature. There are not yet enough windmills/solar panels/electric autos, etc. to power us. Guess what, all that has to be manufactured from current energy. Shut it all down and we will be in mud huts, herding cattle and goats, polluting the air with millions of camp fires, not to mention the resulting increase in forest fires. Think you can do without computers, your smart phones, your planes, trains and automobiles? Believe me, the people living in the stratosphere of world government and its agencies, and the people that made billions, if not more, from selling us out, will not do without.
I am certain that the president of at least one country understands the Marxist agenda of the One-World Spiritualists, and I am sure he understands that the "crisis" they are manufacturing to implement their worldview is radical environmentalism. Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, survived communism and now warns the world about these peoples' ultimate goal, the elimination of freedom. President Klaus is the author of the book, "Blue Planet in Green Shackles." Klaus argues that radical environmentalism is masking socialism, communism, and even fascism. "But while communism was an atheistic system," Klaus notes, "modern environmentalism has assumed a religious dimension and has become a 'green religion'." He adds: "The ultimate goal is "completely about power and about the hegemony of the 'chosen ones' (as they see themselves) over the rest of us, about the imposition of the only correct worldview (their own), about the remodeling of the world." Klaus explains that the goal of the radical environmentalist is to completely destroy private property rights and the free enterprise system by limiting the "carbon footprint" of individuals and companies, growing the size of government, and ushering in socialism. Klaus told the Washington Times: "I understand that global warming is a religion conceived to suppress human freedom." - Brannon Howse, Christian Worldview Network, "One World Spirituality: Three Worldviews Merge," October 28, 2008

World Government is Already Upon Us [Excerpt]

What governs the world is Power and that Power has been illegitimately amassed in the hands of a tiny usurping minority. 

February 13, 2012

Adrian Salbuchi, New Dawn - Every time somebody says very powerful individuals and entities quite predictably also engage in common actions, planning, and agreements in order to achieve common goals, the “C-word” (conspiracy) kicks in with all its might ready to kill any such line of thought or investigation dead in its tracks.
  • How dare you say that global bankers plot to manipulate money and finance so they can control economies, markets, governments and the media!

  • How dare you insinuate that the rich and powerful create organisations like the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) or the Trilateral Commission to do their geopolitical mega planning supporting long-term Global Power Elite interests bent on imposing World Government on Mankind!

  • How can you be so paranoid as to even suggest that Money Power uses its clout to place “their people” in the White House, Parliament, Downing Street, the Casa Rosada, and Editors’ desks in all major media outlets?
That is the mainstream reaction whenever we speak of bankers, oil men, defence contractors, politicians, journalists and their respective corporations, organisations, banks, lobbies, lodges, armies – who all most clearly do have common interests and objectives – coming together and using their vast money flows to exert iron-fist control over society. This is all so obvious that only very naïve people (or very cheeky “analysts” on the Elite payroll!) conclude otherwise. What is really naïve is to think that George Soros never picks up the phone to discuss mutual plans with Sir Henry Kissinger or Christine Lagarde; or that David Rockefeller never dines with his Rothschild, Morgan and Warburg brethren.

Don’t be taken aback by the “C” word. Whoever uses it to silence lucid and aware people do so because they know nothing is more dangerous to them than… lucid and aware people!

September 19, 2015

The Protocols of Zion in Modern English

In 1784, “an act of God” placed the Bavarian government in possession of evidence which proved the existence of the continuing Luciferian Conspiracy.  Adam Weishaupt, a Jesuit-trained professor of canon law, defected from Christianity and embraced the Luciferian ideology while teaching in Ingoldstadt University.  In 1770, the money lenders, who had recently organized the House of Rothschild, retained him to revise and modernize the age-old ‘protocols’ designed to give the Synagogue of Satan ultimate world domination so they, by use of satanic despotism, can impose the Luciferian ideology upon what remains of the Human Race after the final social cataclysm. Weishaupt completed his task on May 1st, 1776.

Editor's Note: Some of the tiny group of elitists controlling the world are not descendants of Abraham but are self-proclaimed "Jews" of the Khazarian Empire, who are of the synagogue of Satan. The Khazars are the current Zionists.
"I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of satan." - Revelation 2:9
"Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee." - Revelation 3:9
"WWII was contrived by the Illuminati in order to destroy German nationalism and nationalism in general. The Illuminati also used the war to purge Europe of Jews who weren't allied to them. The Jewish holocaust created a rationale for the State of Israel, which was intended to dominate the Middle East, serve as an excuse for WWIII, and as capital of the Masonic world government. There is plenty of evidence that the Nazis collaborated with Zionists, and that the Zionists betrayed their Jewish brethren during the war. Sabbatean Jews in the West prevented Jews from escaping from Europe. 'Zionism is but an incident of a far reaching plan," said leading American Zionist Louis Marshall, counsel for bankers Kuhn Loeb in 1917. 'It is merely a convenient peg on which to hang a powerful weapon.' The far-reaching plan is Illuminati world dictatorship. The Illuminati is the highest echelon of Freemasonry, an occult secret society dedicated to Lucifer. The world's central bankers have intermarried with the richest dynastic families of Europe and America to bring about world hegemony. They instigated wars and depressions to degrade and destroy humanity. The American people have been financing their wars since 1914." - Henry Makow, PhD, April 1, 2006

The modern phase of the Luciferian Conspiracy traces back to Adam Weishaupt, who established the Illuminati on May 1, 1776. "[Weishaupt] was backed financially, as are most if not all anarchistic leaders, by a group of bankers under the House of Rothschild. It was under their direction that the long range and worldwide plans of the Illuminati were drawn up." In 1783, the Illuminati assumed control of much of Freemasonry, which secretly coordinated the revolutionary movement (Liberalism, Socialism, and Communism.) According to David Bay, "secret societies like the "Skull and Bones" have always functioned as Satan's church, as the only way to pass the baton from generation to generation." - REMA Marketing, 21st Century Illuminati Part 2: Illuminati 360, 2013

"Freemasonry is a secret society, i.e. the membership is not told the true agenda. The lower three "Blue Degrees" are fed platitudes about charity and making good men better. But, in reality, only the corruptible advance. Our whole society is based on this model which explains why our leaders, both political and cultural, have abandoned us." - REMA Marketing, 21st Century Illuminati Part 2: Illuminati 360, 2013

"The Illuminati (the highest rung of Cabalistic freemasonry) intends to degrade mankind and deliver us to Lucifer as tribute. This is what they mean by 'change."' They spit in the face of God and much of mankind seems only too willing to go along." - Former 32 Degree Freemason, John Salza, Freemasonry Unmasked

The original translation of the Protocols is here.

The following is by IAmTheWitness.com

A one page summary…

Goyim are mentally inferior to Jews and can’t run their nations properly. For their sake and ours, we need to abolish their governments and replace them with a single government. This will take a long time and involve much bloodshed, but it’s for a good cause. Here’s what we’ll need to do:
  • Place our agents and helpers everywhere
  • Take control of the media and use it in propaganda for our plans
  • Start fights between different races, classes and religions
  • Use bribery, threats and blackmail to get our way
  • Use Freemasonic Lodges to attract potential public officials
  • Appeal to successful people’s egos
  • Appoint puppet leaders who can be controlled by blackmail
  • Replace royal rule with socialist rule, then communism, then despotism
  • Abolish all rights and freedoms, except the right of force by us
  • Sacrifice people (including Jews sometimes) when necessary
  • Eliminate religion; replace it with science and materialism
  • Control the education system to spread deception and destroy intellect
  • Rewrite history to our benefit
  • Create entertaining distractions
  • Corrupt minds with filth and perversion
  • Encourage people to spy on one another
  • Keep the masses in poverty and perpetual labor
  • Take possession of all wealth, property and (especially) gold
  • Use gold to manipulate the markets, cause depressions etc.
  • Introduce a progressive tax on wealth
  • Replace sound investment with speculation
  • Make long-term interest-bearing loans to governments
  • Give bad advice to governments and everyone else
Eventually the Goyim will be so angry with their governments (because we’ll blame them for the resulting mess) that they’ll gladly have us take over. We will then appoint a descendant of David to be king of the world, and the remaining Goyim will bow down and sing his praises. Everyone will live in peace and obedient order under his glorious rule.

June 18, 2015

Global Warming Zealot Pope Francis (the False Prophet) is a Member of the Jesuit Society, a Secret Military Organization Which Has Instigated Most of the Wars in Europe



All the ‘intelligence’ agencies -- CIA, Mossad, MI6, ISI, etc. -- are all connected with the secret societies in an unholy, strangely-knotted alliance.

America and the West are clearly nervous about the Vatican’s overtures to the Moscow-Bejing axis and the alleged transfer of millions of Vatican Bank Euros into the new Asian Investment Bank, which hopes to rival the IMF for global financial supremacy. Ever the consummate Jesuit politician, Jorge Bergoglio (Pope Francis), knows how to play both sides of the Great Game by feigning loyalty to each faction. All of his words, and his managerial instinct to play to the crowd, need to be appreciated in that light. Despite what people may hear or want, there is no great reform movement underway in the Vatican; on the contrary, Pope Francis has challenged none of the standing Vatican policies. In truth, what his regime is doing is taking sides in the new global cold war by realigning the Roman Catholic Church towards the Eastern power bloc and influencing America to do the same. After all, three quarters of Catholics are in the third world now, and coming from there himself, Jorge Bergoglio knows that the old supreme Imperium of Western Europe and America is on the wane. Official America must realize its twilight condition as well, election-time rhetoric notwithstanding, considering the abject prostitution of both Democrats and Republicans to the Fixer from Rome. [Source]

On March 13, 2013, the Catholic cardinals elected a new pope after just two days of deliberations, selecting 76-year-old Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio on the fifth vote. He has taken the name of Francis and was not considered to be one of the front runners. He is the first Jesuit pope and the first non-European pope since the 8th century. It has been 1,272 years since a non-European pope led the Church, and is particularly appropriate today, as the number of Catholics have declined in Europe, but grown significantly throughout Latin America. It is now home to 41 percent of Catholics and is “perceived as a Catholic bedrock that needs support to counter the tremendous growth of Protestantism.” Latin America is also home to a replica of Solomon's Temple, which was inaugurated in Brazil on July 31, 2014.

Pope Francis calls global warming a major threat to life on the planet, says it is due mainly to human activity, and describes the need to reduce the use of fossil fuels as an urgent matter in a rare encyclical, or teaching letter, released on June 18, 2015. In the letter he promotes climate action as a moral imperative. "The encyclical is going to go out to over 1 billion Catholics — that's a way of getting a message across to a segment of society that the scientific community could never do," said an excited Jeff Kiehl with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. "I mean it's just unbelievable." Scientists see this year as crucial to the planet's future because of the religious document from Pope Francis. "I'm not a religious person at all," said Gavin Schmidt, a NASA climatologist. But he sees faith-based efforts to shift thinking on climate action as very promising. "The pope's encyclical is probably going to have a bigger impact than the Paris negotiations," he said. [Source]

Pope Francis says culture of consumption has led to global warming

June 18, 2015

LA Times - Pope Francis on Thursday called for immediate changes in human behavior to fight global warming and save the environment, saying damage caused by contemporary lifestyles could leave future generations in a world of filth.

In a powerfully worded encyclical, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church chastised those who would deny a human connection to climate change. Francis declared that the planet was indeed growing warmer and that the dangerous trend was due largely to a culture of instant gratification.

Tragically, he said, people have grown increasingly self-obsessed, ever more distant from nature and alarmingly preoccupied with technological novelty.
“Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain,” Francis wrote in the highly anticipated encyclical, or teaching document, released Thursday. “We may well be leaving to coming generations debris, desolation and filth. The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet’s capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only precipitate catastrophes.”
At a Vatican news conference, Cardinal Peter Turkson, who wrote a draft of the document, said humanity is facing a “crucial challenge” that needs to be addressed through dialogue.
“For Pope Francis it is imperative that practical proposals not be developed in an ideological, superficial or reductionist way,” he said.
Pope Francis' encyclical on climate change

Metropolitan of Pergamon John Zizioulas, representing the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Orthodox Church, said the environmental crisis was also a spiritual problem caused by the rise of individualism and a greed for personal happiness.