Is it possible that Pope Francis will cause the supposedly "god fearing" leaders in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to embrace the environment as a morally responsible issue rather than as a pro business versus anti business hot potato?..............On social media and in formal statements, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist and Muslim leaders have backed the pope’s call for strong action to address climate change and embrace the fellow animal inhabitants of our Planet,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,His encyclical released Thursday called “Laudato Si’ ,” or “Praise Be to You: On Care for Our Common Home.” has environmental leaders and all people who champion "common sense" over biased ideology cheering for his boldness and willingness to seek reversal of the centuries of abuse that we have heaped on the planet.........Throughout the paper, like a recurring chant, Francis intones that everyone and everything is interconnected — to God, to creation, to fellow human beings............The encyclical repeatedly invokes phrases like “brother sun, sister moon, brother river and mother earth".................. Praise for “our Sister, Mother Earth” comes from the Canticle “Laudato Si’ ” by St. Francis of Assisi, for which the encyclical is named................... “As believers, we do not look at the world from without but from within, conscious of the bonds with which the Father has linked us to all beings"................... But just when he begins to sound spiritually cosmic, Francis adds a pinch of science: “A good part of our genetic code is shared by many living beings"............Regardless of whether you be a spiritualist, an aetheist, an agnostic or an organized religion believer, you have to love Pope Francis..............Telling it like it is, not some stupid fairy tale from Politicians, Industrialists and the narrow minded who can only think about their own short term self interest.............Way to go Francis!!!!!

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Faith Leaders Stand With Pope Francis on Climate Change
  June 17, 2015

Vatican Pool—Getty ImagesPope Francis
 meets Archbishop
 of Canterbury Justin Welby at his private
 library on June 14, 
2013 in Vatican City, Vatican.

On social media and in formal statements,
 Protestant, Jewish,
 Buddhist and Muslim leaders have
backed the pope’s call
 for strong action to address climate change.

Here’s what they’ve said.

The Church of England

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby
 signed a declaration
 Wednesday warning of the “huge challenge”
 posed by
climate change and promised to pray for
the success of the
 United Nations Climate Change
Conference in Paris later
 this year.

Judaism

Inspired by Francis, 333 rabbis wrote a
rabbinic letter
 on climate change. One of the authors,
 Rabbi Arthur
Waskow, explained their thinking in
 a June 6 editorial
 in the Forward:

“Can we prevent worldwide
climate-spawned
disasters? Can we turn our science
 and our moral
wisdom toward shaping a world of
 shared, sustainable
abundance — eco-social justice?”

Tibetan Buddhism

The Dalai Lama said Wednesday
 that everyone
should strive for a “oneness of
humanity” because
 climate change affects the entire
 planet.

Islam

In a statement to TIME, Imam
 Mohamed Magid
 of the Islamic Society of North
 America said
that this Ramadan, Muslims should
 heed the
Pope’s call:

“People of all faiths can come
 together for this
 cause because the concept of
stewardship on
 Earth is a shared belief,” he said.
 “Appreciating
the blessings bestowed upon us
 by our Creator
 is a value that we all take great
care to respect.”
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