March 13, 2014
By Ed O'Keefe
Congressional leaders (click here) have invited Pope Francis to address a joint session of Congress during his expected visit to the United States next year....
Stay tuned.
December 11, 2015
Vatican City
Here is a translation of the Message that Pope Francis sent to the Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Peru, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal,...
...Together with my greetings to you (click here), Mr. President, and to all the organizers and participants in that Conference, I wish to express to you my closeness and encouragement, so that the work of these days will be carried out in an open and generous spirit. What you are going to debate affects the whole of humanity, in particular the poorest and future generations. More than that, it is a grave ethical and moral responsibility.
It is significant that the Conference is being held on the coasts adjacent to the Humbolt maritime current, which unites in a symbolic embrace the peoples of America, Oceania and Asia and which has a determinant role in the climate of the whole planet. The consequences of environmental changes, which are already felt in a dramatic way in many States, especially the insular ones of the Pacific, remind us of the gravity of negligence and inaction. The time to find global solutions is running out. We will only be able to find adequate solutions if we act together and in agreement. Hence, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical impetrative to act.
The effective struggle against global warming will only be possible with a responsible collective answer, that goes beyond particular interests and behavior and is developed free of political and economic pressures....
I have never heard a Pope address the actual oceanography of Earth. I feel respected that Pope Francis is interested enough in the urgency of our planet's plight that he actually came to understand Earth's dynamics. He is amazing. He loves Earth the way I love Earth.
The heating of Earth is no minor matter to Pope Francis. He has decided for himself the degree Earth is pushed beyond it's physics. God's gift to us is being ignored and taken for granted; abused even. There are many more that live on this planet than simply those in the First World that can't seem to adjust to reality.
Review: The Humboldt Current: (click here) Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
...Rather, Humboldt's importance lies in having given expression to an
important environmental ethos, for having given voice to a sensibility.
What von Humboldt saw wherever he explored was "the chain of connection"
between all things. As he himself put it: "In considering the study of
physical phenomena. . . , we find its noblest and most important result
to be a knowledge of the chain of connection, by which all natural
forces are linked together, and made mutually dependent on each other."...
By Ed O'Keefe
Congressional leaders (click here) have invited Pope Francis to address a joint session of Congress during his expected visit to the United States next year....
Stay tuned.
December 11, 2015
Vatican City
Here is a translation of the Message that Pope Francis sent to the Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Peru, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal,...
...Together with my greetings to you (click here), Mr. President, and to all the organizers and participants in that Conference, I wish to express to you my closeness and encouragement, so that the work of these days will be carried out in an open and generous spirit. What you are going to debate affects the whole of humanity, in particular the poorest and future generations. More than that, it is a grave ethical and moral responsibility.
It is significant that the Conference is being held on the coasts adjacent to the Humbolt maritime current, which unites in a symbolic embrace the peoples of America, Oceania and Asia and which has a determinant role in the climate of the whole planet. The consequences of environmental changes, which are already felt in a dramatic way in many States, especially the insular ones of the Pacific, remind us of the gravity of negligence and inaction. The time to find global solutions is running out. We will only be able to find adequate solutions if we act together and in agreement. Hence, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical impetrative to act.
The effective struggle against global warming will only be possible with a responsible collective answer, that goes beyond particular interests and behavior and is developed free of political and economic pressures....
I have never heard a Pope address the actual oceanography of Earth. I feel respected that Pope Francis is interested enough in the urgency of our planet's plight that he actually came to understand Earth's dynamics. He is amazing. He loves Earth the way I love Earth.
The heating of Earth is no minor matter to Pope Francis. He has decided for himself the degree Earth is pushed beyond it's physics. God's gift to us is being ignored and taken for granted; abused even. There are many more that live on this planet than simply those in the First World that can't seem to adjust to reality.
...Rather, Humboldt's importance lies in having given expression to an
important environmental ethos, for having given voice to a sensibility.
What von Humboldt saw wherever he explored was "the chain of connection"
between all things. As he himself put it: "In considering the study of
physical phenomena. . . , we find its noblest and most important result
to be a knowledge of the chain of connection, by which all natural
forces are linked together, and made mutually dependent on each other."... 
