Pope Benedict XVI has once again called on Catholics everywhere to go green. This past week, he used his Epiphany Day homily to call for action against global warming and polluting.
This isn’t the first time the Pope has pushed to save the environment. In September of 2007, the Vatican installed solar panels; in December, he talked about our need to conserve energy; and last July, he equated the collection of material goods to the worship of false idols and asked people to realize that the Earth needs help.
“Perhaps reluctantly, we come to acknowledge that there are scars which mark the surface of our earth — erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world’s mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption.”
The Vatican has also supported renewable energy in the past.
Picture via Wikicommons from Fabio Pozzebom
