Pope Offers New Climate Prayer
As part of a new prayer, the Vatican has included the world’s resources to be used to ask God for the ability to care for creation.”
“With this Mass, the Church is offering liturgical, spiritual and communal support for the care we all need to exercise of nature, our common home,” Cardinal Michael Czerny told a press conference picked up by The New York Times. The prayer is an attempt by the Vatican to support efforts to mitigate the severe damage caused by climate change.
This is not the only time the Vatican has made similar comments. It has a broader aim than the Catholic church members, although there are 1.4 billion of them worldwide.
U.S. Walks Out
The statement comes as many governments retreat from their climate commitments. Ana Toni, the chief executive of Cop30, the UN climate summit, recently said, “Climate is our biggest war. Climate is here for the next 100 years. We need to focus and … not allow those [other] wars to take our attention away from the bigger fight that we need to have.” The U.S. is withdrawing from the climate agreement.
Several other nations argue that achieving climate goals is too expensive, as they struggle with budget deficits. Loans promised to Third World countries to help with their climate challenges have been slow to materialize and may not at all.
The Vatican can offer climate prayers, but that is the limit of their ability to drive change, as much of the rest of the world retreats.
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