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September 23rd, 2007
For the first time in history, my faith’s most important figure is championing science over dogma. Pope Benedict “is expected to use his first address to the United Nations to deliver a powerful warning over climate change in a move to adopt protection of the environment as a “moral” cause for the Catholic Church and its billion-strong following.”
The Pope’s commitment is the environment is apparently real, The Independent reports that Vatican City recently became “the first fully carbon-neutral state in the world.”
The Pope has taken a great step by declaring this cause to be a worthy one for Catholics to consider. I am impressed that the Vatican is carbon neutral. Hopefully this is a way for the Church to reach out to secular Europe so that they may become more willing to follow the teachings of the Church. Amen to that. But here is where I disagree with you. The Pope is not championing science over dogma. There was never an anti-environmental dogma. Recent Popes of the past few hundred years have been very willing to accept science. A good example is Venerable Pope Pius XII’s encyclical Humani Generis which said that there is no conflict between Darwinian evolution and the Roman Catholic faith. Popes Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI have all made it very clear that faith and reason walk hand in hand.