Divine intervention? Pope opposes fracking

[kpete]

Divine intervention? Pope opposes fracking
By John Upton

13 Nov 2013 11:25 AM


The worldwide leader of the Catholic Church, none other than the motherfracking pope himself, has come out in opposition to the worldwide scourge of hydraulic fracturing.

OK, so Pope Francis didn’t exactly make a policy statement or a speech denouncing fracking. But hints have emerged that he might do so soon. And Twitter is afire with pictures of His Holiness holding up anti-fracking T-shirts. The pictures were taken Monday following meetings with Argentinians dealing with environmental issues:



Environmental filmmaker Fernando ‘Pino’ Solanas told elEconomista that the pope had indicated during a Monday meeting that he was working on a papal memo, known as an encyclical, that will address environmental issues.

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[NCarolinawoman]

1. Good good good!!!

It was illegal in my state until the Republicans took over.

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. I can hear the heads exploding from here. n/t

[ChazII]

9. I can hear those heads exploding, too

Just another photo-op, right??

And because who want have brain splattered on their clothes.

[theHandpuppet]

3. At least he got this one right

He's also opposed to abortion, contraception, gay marriage, gay adoption, the ordination of women, and feminists in general. Nice to see he's on the progressive side of "opposed" for a change.

[Demo_Chris]

4. He needs to stop protecting thousands of child rapists and torturers...

Until then he remains a piece of excrement and deserving of nothing but scorn.

[Tigress DEM]

6. Working on it

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pope-francis-catholic-church-punish-pedophile-priests-article-1.1308895


Pope Francis gave the Roman Catholic Church some marching orders Friday — "act decisively" to root out and punish pedophile priests.

Doing so is necessary "for the church and its credibility," Francis said, according to the Vatican.

It was the first time Francis publically addressed the festering sex abuse issue since he was elected last month — and he did so in a meeting with Archbishop Gerhard Müller, who heads the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which investigates perv priests.

The department should also promote "measures to protect minors, help for those who have suffered such violence in the past," the pope's statement said.

[Tigress DEM]

8. Pushing it down from the top takes time - but it has to start somewhere, somehow.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/11/11/catholic-church/archbishop-pledges-to-release-names-of-priests-who-sexually-abused-children


Archbishop pledges to release names of priests who sexually abused children
by Madeleine Baran, Minnesota Public Radio
November 11, 2013

ST. PAUL, Minn. — In a reversal of decades-old policy, Archbishop John Nienstedt said he plans to release the names of some priests who have sexually abused children.

The list will be limited to living priests who still reside in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and who have been determined by the archdiocese to be guilty of abuse. Nienstedt did not say how many names would be released, and it's unclear if the list would include any priests not already known to the public through lawsuits and media reports.

Nienstedt's decision comes in response to an MPR News investigation, which found that the archdiocese continues to protect a 74-year-old priest who admitted to sexually abusing children on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota in the mid-1970s. The Rev. Clarence Vavra admitted to the abuse as part of a psychological evaluation in 1995, but Archbishops John Roach and Harry Flynn kept Vavra in ministry and did not contact police. Flynn asked Vavra to retire in 2003 - and gave him $650 a month in extra retirement payments. Vavra lives half a block from a middle school in New Prague, Minn. Prior to MPR News' report, he was not a known abuser.

[Tigress DEM]

5. He's doing a lot of good.

YEAH!!!

[hrmjustin]

7. K&R!