Vatican would see U.S. Paris deal exit as slap in face: official

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



Thu Jun 1, 2017 | 8:48am EDT

By Philip Pullella | VATICAN CITY

The Vatican, which under Pope Francis' insistence has strongly backed the Paris climate change deal, would see a U.S. exit as a slap in the face and a "disaster for everyone," a senior official said on Thursday.

At their meeting last month, the pope gave U.S. President Donald Trump a signed copy of his 2015 encyclical letter that called for protecting the environment from the effects of climate change and backed scientific evidence that it is caused by human activity.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin urged Trump in a separate meeting not to quit the Paris accord. "If he really does (pull out), it would be a huge slap in the face for us," said Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, head of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which has hosted numerous international conferences on climate change.

"It will be a disaster for everyone," he told the Rome newspaper La Repubblica. In a telephone call with Reuters, Sanchez Sorondo confirmed the comments in the newspaper.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climatechange-trump-pope-idUSKBN18S550

[christx30]

1. This isn't going to help.

A guy like Trump lives for giving slaps to the face to people that aren't him. He has no loyalty to anyone but himself. You have to appeal to the Trump in him. How will the Paris agreement help or enrich Trump? How will exiting the agreement be potentially bad for him? You answer that, you appeal to his ego, and you might have a chance to fix it.

[DonViejo]

2. I don't know. Bannon, Conway and Spicer are devout Catholics...

true, Bannon loathes the current Pope but, we'll soon see!

Steve Bannon Aligns With Vatican Hard-Liners Who Oppose Pope Francis
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/02/08/514102356/steve-bannon-aligns-with-vatican-hardliners-who-oppose-pope-francis

[LongTomH]

4. That Nazi motherf@cker actually has the temerity to oppose the most popular Pope in decades!!!!!

[christx30]

5. I've read people like that.

Because Francis isn't a tough enough pope. Francis is one of those "turn the other cheek" and the "love thy neighbor as you would love thyself" guys, and that doesn't fly with Bannon and his ilk.

[pangaia]

6. "Devout Catholics?"

[defacto7]

7. According to Mein Kampf...

so was Hitler. But that doesn't mean they are Catholics in other than their word and their word doesn’t mean very much.

[forgotmylogin]

3. Pope Francis:

"Ho dato a quel uomo un libro. Non credo che lo stronzo lo legge."

[lark]

8. Pope hasn't promised drumpf beaucoup $$ like Saudi Arabia and China, so has no pull.

Drumpf only likes places that bribe him and fawn all over him properly. He hates democracies because they don't just automatically kiss his feet and let him build his golf courses wherever and whenever he likes. he tried to get Belgium and Germany to bite and neither would so he got majorly pissy. Plus he was doing Putin's bidding by destabilizing our most important relationships, so it was a 2-fer for him.

[dalton99a]

9. 2 am tomorrow: "Disgraceful Pope doesn't own enough land for me to build a golf course. Loser!"

[Solly Mack]

10. Yeah, Trump doesn't care.