“Pope Francis Dies At 88, The Pontiff Who Tried To Change The Catholic Church From Within”

I still see Pope Francis’ “Laudato Si” as a “Message Of Resurrection.” I believe Pope Francis did not want to die until he had proclaimed to the whole world his dying wish: Resurrection. For the world, soon!

Jennifer Earl reports (“Pope Francis: ‘Climate Change At This Moment Is A Road To Death,’" CBS News, cbsnews.com):

"How worried are you about climate change?" CBS Evening News managing editor Norah O'Donnell asked Francis during a historic interview in Vatican City.

"Unfortunately, we have gotten to a point of no return. … Francis replied. "Climate change at this moment is a road to death."

Don’t look at me! I Filipino blogger have been writing about Climate Change for 25 years. See my 03 March 2007 article, “Primate Change? Or Climate Change?” (The American Frank, theamericanfrank.wordpress.com). Here is me:

In my primate mind’s eye, right in the forefront of country-to-country efforts to mitigate Global Warming, I envision Blogal Warming, a rise by 2 degrees Celsius in the body temperature of primate bloggers all over the world to the level of passion in their advocacy for A Greaner World, greener & cleaner.

Where are the bloggers when you need them most?! Where are our paid columnists?

Joseph Tulloch says (Vatican News, vaticannews.va):

A look at Laudato si’, Pope Francis’ radical encyclical on care for the environment, … has been praised as “the most important piece of intellectual criticism in our time.”

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised the document for its “moral voice,” while the Indian novelist Pankaj Mishra called it “arguably the most important piece of intellectual criticism in our time.”

Joseph Tulloch says, “Laudato si’ combines, on the one hand, striking, and at times poetic, theological reflections on the importance of care for the natural world with, on the other, calls for radical political action.

“The Pope writes, for instance, that “The universe unfolds in God, who fills it completely. Hence, there is a mystical meaning to be found in a leaf, in a mountain trail, in a dewdrop, in a poor person’s face. Standing awestruck before a mountain, we cannot separate this experience from God.”

His meditations led the Pope to condemn “politics concerned with immediate results, supported by consumerist sectors of the population” and “driven to produce short-term growth.” Short-term goals, long-term effects.

What we need, he says, is “a new way of thinking about human beings, life, society and our relationship with nature.”

Tulloch says:

Central to Laudato si’ is the idea of ‘integral ecology’ – the notion that the climate crisis is intrinsically linked to our present day social, political, and economic problems, and cannot be addressed in isolation from them.

I first wrote of it in 2007, or 18 years ago; read my “Primate Change? Or Climate Change?” The American Frank, theamericanfrank.wordpress.com):

Consider this Frank Hilario’s Blogal Warning, a 3-decades-delayed response to Al Gore’s “Global Warning:” We need to change perspective about Climate Change. Houston, we have a problem… Whose fault is it? THE PRIMATES, THE GREAT THINKING APES – THE US.@517