Pope Francis as superman, flying through the air with his white cape billowing out behind him, the image graffitied by an anonymous artist onto a wall in Rome was tweeted by the Vatican back in 2014. “We share with you graffiti found in a Roman street near the Vatican,” the Pontifical Council for Social Communications from the Holy See said on its official Twitter page.
This just in from U.S. News and World Report: “Pope Francis’ climate change encyclical will be a hugely important step for the church.This summer, Pope Francis will deliver the first major encyclical of his papacy. It will be on climate change and the environment. Encyclicals are a big deal, just one level below a papal bull.
“While nearly everything the “superman pope” does is scrutinized closely by the conservative wing of the Catholic church in America, this particular call to the church is likely to receive an extra dose of attention because of the nature of the issue.
“Francis issued a general encyclical on moral issues early in his papacy. But he chose to tackle climate change and the environment as his first real issue.” READ U.S. News Article HERE
REMNANT COMMENT: I don’t find this awkward or embarrassing at all, do you? I mean abortion isn’t insignificant, of course, but compared to climate change, the lives of millions of murdered babies (producers of carbon dioxide, consumers of resources, potential future owners of SUVs) can hardly be called the moral issue of our time. After all, pantheism is more than a hypothesis.
Aborted baby humans we will always have with us, but the ice caps might be melting right now and there’s still time to save the baby polar bears. Francis, rightly called “Superman Pope”, just might save the whole world before he’s done. And, quite frankly, I think that’s cool, don’t you?
