Pope Francis summons Big Oil to Vatican for “Climate Change” sermon
Senior executives of companies including Exxon Mobil, Eni, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Pemex are on the penance list.
Ireland has long been seen as a bastion of the Catholic Church, but its May 25 vote to end national ban on abortion is evidence that the nation is taking a secular turn. Interestingly, Pope Francis was silent during the campaigns on this matter and will not visit Ireland.
I suspect that this lack of action is at least partly driven by the fact that progressives are on the opposite side of this issue. It would take a saint to endure the social justice scolding that would have ensued if Pope Francis interjected the Catholic religion into this matter.
However, “climate change” is an entirely different matter.
Pope Francis will meet with some of the world’s oil executives next week, likely to give them another moral nudge to clean up their act on global warming.
Climate change policy and science experts are cautiously hopeful but aren’t expecting any miracles or even noticeable changes.
The conference will be a follow-up to the pope’s encyclical three years ago calling on people to save the planet from climate change and other environmental ills, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke confirmed Friday. Cardinal Peter Turkson, who spearheaded the encyclical, set up the June 8-9 conference with the executives. The pope himself will speak to the leaders on the second day of the summit, organized with the University of Notre Dame, Burke said.
Readers will recall the Pope issued a climate change encyclical that was entitled Laudato Si (Praise Be: On the Care of Our Common Home). Parts of the message disparaged free market principles while indicating “global governance” as a solution to the politically created climate change crisis.
I believe that the papal opinion on the free market or real science have not changed, so it will be interesting to see which Big Oil executives are willing to enter the “lions den” of green justice activism.
The conference, organized by the University of Notre Dame in the United States, is expected to be attended by the heads or senior executives of companies including Exxon Mobil, Eni, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Pemex, the source said.
The chief executive officers of Exxon, BP and Norway’s Equinor will attend the event, the companies confirmed. Shell declined to comment.
…Companies are betting on increased demand for gas, the least polluting fossil fuel, and to a lesser extent on renewable power such as wind and solar, to meet global targets of net zero emissions by the end of the century.
“We’re hopeful that this kind of dialogue can help develop solutions to the dual challenge of managing the risks of climate change while meeting growing demand for energy, which is critical to alleviating poverty and raising living standards in the developing world,” Exxon spokesman Scott Silvestri said.
Perhaps Pope Francis might be more effective if he chatted with Chinese and Indian officials instead.
But to keep up with the increasing demand for electricity, India must add about 15 gigawatts of generating capacity annually for the next 30 years. Most of the country’s electricity (two-thirds) is supplied by coal-fired plants and more such plants are likely to be built. India has the fifth largest coal reserves in the world at 94.8 billion metric tons, according to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, and its technically recoverable coal resources are more than triple that number. India plans to double its coal production by 2020, making it the second largest producer of coal in the world, behind China.
As an aside, I would like to remind Legal Insurrection readers that Pope Francis worked closely with Obama on the awful deal to normalize relations with Cuba. He recently made a few remarks about the upcoming summit between the US and North Korea that failed to mention Trump and focused on the Koreas (“Artisans of Peace”).
I am going to go on the record by stating that based on this lack of papal intervention, I predict the Korean Peace Deal is going to be a spectacular success.
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Pope is just feeling guilty about all those golden candelabras his “boys” spend their days polishing.
What a feckless –
The pope favors the artificial green blight over the organic black blob. I don’t think this is a religious/moral concern. As for the hypothesis of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming, that is more prophecy than science, which as a matter of human circumstance (i.e. non-God) in a chaotic (e.g. evolutionary) system, is only valid in a limited frame of reference.
Let me simplify your palaver. The Pope is right when you agree with him and wrong when you don’t.
He’s an individual voice. No more. No less.
His jurisdiction is God’s religious/moral law. No more. No less.
And while that may intersect with the limited scientific logical domain, it does not pretend to share equal knowledge or skill with God to know the past or predict the future, or exceed the accuracy of the scientific logical domain.
That’s exactly how it works.
Do you have a problem with it?
You are the joy reid of truth.
Yes, just like any other commenter on public affairs.
Even Catholics do not believe him to have any special insight on matters outside the church’s teaching authority. Even on matters of morals and faith, they don’t believe him to be infallible unless he specifically defines a doctrine ex cathedra. Outside those matters, not only don’t they think him infallible, they don’t even think his opinion is more noteworthy than anyone else’s.
The Catholic Church was going broke after all the pedophilia scandals. George Soros gave them a huge infusion of money in return for installing Pope Francis.
Pope Francis was not Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He is a Jewish imposter. Over time the imposter pope is going to turn the whole Catholic Church liberal.
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What is a Jewish imposter? I think you just got your show cancelled.
Someone who agrees with secular motives: wealth, pleasure, leisure, narcissism, and selective-child.
“He is a Jewish imposter….”
That’s hilarious. Even for a deranged fascist like you.
When people from other websites use your comment to impugn Legal Insurrection, I just want them to see me note that you are a well-known troll here. Have a nice day.
He was a registered Communist, no?
No. What does “registered communist” even mean? But whatever it means, no; there is no evidence that he has ever been a communist of any kind.
I think you get a club card, a T-shirt, and free bowling on Tuesday night…
But I thought this pope was a member of the Illuminati…or maybe was it the Shriners ? (I forget)
Probably just a fund-raiser. The Church can make quick cash by selling Big Oil some big indulgences.
“Parts of the message disparaged free market principles while indicating “global governance” as a solution to the politically created climate change crisis.”
Uh yeah, those concepts are found in the Book of Revelation to describe some tools of the evil one. Go, pope.
Plus, since the marxists already tried a decades-long shake down take down of Chevron, that oil company wisely decided to avoid this rent seeking fuster cluck.
This pope is a putz and coward on an obamian scale:
Compare to Pope Paul:
http://catholicstraightanswers.com/pope-john-paul-iis-role-fall-soviet-union/
Paul? The sixth? What’s he got to do with it?
Papa, ad pondus harenae.
(Pope, go pound sand.)
Um, no. Sand to the weight? Try again.
I got the translation from Google, which is, by definition, infallibel. 😉
Considering the state of much of the world, I’d say that his emphasis ought to be much, much more on a different “climate” problem.
Yes, the moral one……….
For sure. Unfortunately, when he does address this it is often overshadowed by other statements he has made, frequently political ones. I think we already have enough espousing the latter and too few the former.
I’m sorry, Your Holiness, but we’ll be working that day drilling for oil, providing jobs, and making money. We will, however, make sure that farmers have the fuel to produce food for the hungry, that manufacturers have the energy to provide clothing to the naked, and that millions of people have sufficient free time and money to give to those less fortunate.
The Pope doesn’t care about the price of fuel…he gets free transportation in that big-ass Pope-mobile…
This pope has turned the old saw, “Is the Pope Catholic?” into a genuine question.
Which leads one to wonder whether bears’ sanitary habits ought now to be questioned too.
I saw a bear shit in an open field once.
I think when you’re a bear you get to sit wherever you like.
One time I saw a bear heading to woods and he was carrying a roll of toilet paper….so he must of been one of those tidy bears….
One world government. Yikes. lol.
Why should anyone take him any more seriously than do catholics like nanny pelosi??
Somebody needs to tell this pope to STFU and sit down.
Puck the Fope! no respect intended.
That’s a hockey term……right???
(just wondering)
The Catholic Church took 350 years to admit the earth moves around the sun. That tells me all I need to know about the organization.
You have been misinformed.