Papal adviser Cardinal Peter Turkson says personal issues of life and death still come first despite pope’s call for climate action
Leave it to The Guardian to conflate abortion, an infallibly defined sin, with the death penalty, something this pope doesn't personally like.
Anyway, they write,
The Vatican official who wrote the first draft of the papal encyclical has said abortion and the death penalty still hold primacy over climate change as issues for the Catholic church, despite the pope’s ringing call for action on the environment.
As the pope moved on to New York for the second leg of his US tour, Cardinal Peter Turkson said personal issues of life and death still came first for the church, notwithstanding the Catholic leader’s efforts to get world leaders to fight climate change and poverty.
The cardinal, who is a key adviser to the pope, also said the Vatican had no plans to rid itself of holdings in fossil fuels, and that the encyclical should by no means be seen as a call by the pope to divest from coal, oil or gas.
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