On July 5, 2022, the Vatican declared that there is a significant movement among religious groups to divest investments from the fossil fuel industries. Protestant and Catholic institutions are removing their funds and investments from the fossil fuel sector and have chosen to put money into green projects like investing in renewable energy. The Vatican has put pressure on political and religious leaders to take this action. The Vatican News reported:
“After various calls by the Vatican for divestment from fossil fuels, thirty-five faith institutions with more than $1.25 billion in combined assets, including some Catholic organizations, announce they are divesting from fossil fuel companies.” [1]
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The Laudato Si’ Movement, World Council of Churches, Operation Noah, Green Anglicans, GreenFaith, and other organizations complied with the Vatican’s directive. The churches are obeying the Pope’s call to invest instead in alternative renewable energy sources rather than the fossil fuel industries. This is the message that is contained in the Pope’s encyclical, Laudato Si:
Laudato Si’ #26 – “There is an urgent need to develop policies so that, in the next few years, the emission of carbon dioxide and other highly polluting gases can be drastically reduced, for example, substituting for fossil fuels and developing sources of renewable energy. Worldwide there is minimal access to clean and renewable energy.” [2]
Laudato Si’ #165 – “We know that technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels – especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas – needs to be progressively replaced without delay. Until greater progress is made in developing widely accessible sources of renewable energy, it is legitimate to choose the less harmful alternative or to find short-term solutions.” [2]
However, it’s not just religious organizations that are being pressured to adopt the climate change policies contained within Laudato Si’. Many governments are adopting climate change initiatives that are in harmony with the spirit of Laudato Si’. 193 nations have already adopted the Paris Climate Agreement that came out in 2015, the same year Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ was published.
In our society, there is an agenda that is developing. The message of the Pope is reaching an increasing number of countries, organizations, and people. In fact, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged members of Congress in a letter sent just last month to enact a $555 billion federal spending measure to tackle climate change. The letter said, in part:
“This is a critical moment to pass climate legislation if the United States is to meet Paris Agreement emissions reduction goals, and I once again ask you to work toward policies that will help promote care for creation and those on the margins of society, respecting the rights and dignity of every human life.” [3]
By urging the rulers of the earth (Revelation 17:12, 13) to support his Laudato Si’ climate change encyclical, Pope Francis is carrying out his prophetic role. The goal is to eventually compel (Revelation 13:12) the various world leaders to take action and enact religious worship during the mark of the beast crisis. The Vatican and the United States, the final two major political and religious powers, are shown to have a very close working relationship in the book of Revelation. The Sunday rest clause in Laudato Si’ (section #237) and this church/state union embody the end-time prophetic conditions that the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy have given us. In response to Rome’s command, the United States will soon carry out the following actions as we enter this final crisis:
“And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.” Revelation 13:12.
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Yes Ms Jane says
It’s interesting Rockefellers coined the phrase “fossil fuels” to make it sound like a limited product, so they could charge more for it,
In truth it is renewable,
Like The Pharmaceutical industry, Big Oil is also one of the commoditys Vatican’s is a huge shareholder in,
the “offered” alternative the “electric vehicle” is also made using the so called fossil fuels, to recharge them,
It’s a shame people keep murdering people who made cars that run on any liquids, you could literally spit in your fuel tank and it would run.
Donna Meyer says
Years ago, I think back in the late 1960’s or early 1970’s, a man invented a way to use Chicken Manure in place of gasoline and it worked perfectly; again if I remember correctly, the big oil companies wanted his information and offered to buy him out, he refused; I don’t remember what happened to him but I think he “died suddenly.”
LINDA F TAYLOR says
If people only knew who was really running the White House and Congress, they would be shocked!!! A letter written by Jesuit bishops to Congress just last month. You never heard that on the news!!! Don’t forget, most of Congress is made up of catholics! They will pay allegiance to the pope before anything else.
I keep trying to tell people that the catholic church is pulling all the strings, but, they do not want to believe me. Even some of our Adventist members don’t believe it! They must not read the Bible, or the SOP.