Antipope Francis: Apostolic Exhortation ‘Laudate Deum’ on the Climate Crisis (Oct. 4, 2023)

More hot air from Bergoglio…

Antipope Francis

Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum
on the Climate Crisis

October 4, 2023

[Last updated Oct. 11, 2023]

The Vatican’s text factory has just released another ‘magisterial’ document: Jorge Bergoglio (a.k.a. ‘Pope Francis’) has published his latest ‘Apostolic exhortation’. It bears the name Laudate Deum (“Praise God”) and concerns itself with an alleged global ‘climate crisis’.

Unlike many other ‘papal’ documents in recent times, this particular one is fairly short, at least judging by Bergoglian standards. In its English version, Laudate Deum comes in at a measly 7,100 words. It is divided into 6 chapters and has 73 numbered paragraphs, with a total of 44 footnotes.

The most notable footnote is probably n. 22: “Cf. War, Progress and the End of History, Including a Short Story of the Anti-Christ. Three Discussions by Vladimir Soloviev, London, 1915, p. 197.” The vast majority of the other footnotes are to Francis’ environmental encyclical Laudato Si’, to which the current text is considered to be a sequel of sorts.

Footnote n. 41 also deserves a special mention. It refers the reader to pp. 205-249 of the book When Species Meet, published in 2007 by eco-feminist Donna J. Haraway (b. 1944). The book description given by the publisher concludes: “Ultimately, [the author] finds that respect, curiosity, and knowledge spring from animal-human associations and work powerfully against ideas about human exceptionalism.”

Not a single footnote is to the real Catholic magisterium from before Vatican II, by the way. (You may close your jaw again now.)

The Vatican has made the text of Laudate Deum available in sundry languages, of which we make the following available via direct links:

• Full Text of Laudate Deum in English
• Full Text of Laudate Deum in Spanish
• Full Text of Laudate Deum in French
• Full Text of Laudate Deum in Italian
• Full Text of Laudate Deum in German
• Full Text of Laudate Deum in Portuguese

Summaries of the new exhortation are also available:

• “Laudate Deum”: the Pope’s cry for a response to the climate crisis (Vatican News)
• ‘Laudate Deum’: A brief guide for busy readers (The Pillar)
• Presentation of the Apostolic Exhortation: “Laudate Deum” (Video by Laudato Si’ Movement)
• Infographic on ‘Laudate Deum’ by Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development

The following is a list of links with initial coverage and commentary on Laudate Deum by various sources:

• Pope Francis issues new call for dramatic climate change measures (Catholic News Agency)
• Pope Francis makes it clear: Climate change must be a priority for all Catholics (America)
• Pope Blasts Climate Change Critics in New Eco-Decree (Church Militant)
• Pope’s new eco-manifesto slams climate sceptics and urges dramatic action to combat climate change (Catholic Herald)
• “Multilateralism from below” to combat climate change and more (Vatican News)
• Laudate Deum barely mentions Christ (First Things)
• “Laudate Deum”: With reason and renunciation against the climate crisis (Katholisch.de)
• Pope rips climate skepticism, faults US for emissions in new eco-manifesto (Crux)
• Pope Francis demands powerful global government to enforce ‘climate change’ policies (Life Site)
• Pope Francis calls for obligatory global ‘climate change’ policies in new document ‘Laudate Deum’ (Life Site)
• “Our Own Worst Enemy”: Ten Takeaways from Laudate Deum (Where Peter Is)
• ‘Laudate Deum’: Planet Mirrors A Deeply Flawed View Of Human Life And Activity (OSV News)
• New papal document puts climate change before faith (Catholic Culture)
• Two cheers for Laudate Deum, the musings of a ‘1960s flower child’ that falls short on theology (Catholic Herald)
• Pope Francis takes on climate deniers, ‘irresponsible’ Americans in new climate letter (National Catholic Reporter)
• The Vatican’s New Exhortation On “Climate Change” Has Many Errors (William M. Briggs)
• Laudate Deum: climate experts comment (Vatican News)
• Pope Francis’ remarks on faith in ‘Laudate Deum’ are even more alarming than his climate activism (Life Site)
• Vatican State Secretariat frozen out on climate change doc (The Pillar)
• Laudate Deum: Pope Francis’ Mistaken Apocalypse (Crisis Magazine)
• Important points in Laudate Deum are overshadowed by missed opportunities (Catholic World Report)
• Read some of the reactions to the pope’s ‘heartfelt appeal’ on climate change (Catholic World Report)
• Laudate Deum, catastrophism replaces Catholic faith (Daily Compass)
• Reading Laudate Deum in Context (The Josias)
• Pope Francis’ climate agenda suffers from ‘Inconvenient Facts’ (Life Site)
• What Pope Francis gets dangerously wrong in his new climate manifesto ‘Laudate Deum’ (Life Site)
• Laudate Deum and COP28 (Vatican News)

The Vatican has provided the following two propaganda clips promoting Laudate Deum:

The Vatican held a press conference on Oct. 5, 2023, entitled “Laudate Deum: Voices and Testimonies on the Climate Crisis”. The video is embedded below. The transcript is available here.

We have run the text of Laudate Deum through a word count engine. According to it, the most frequently used keywords in the text are the following, together with the number of mentions:

• human (33)
• climate (32)
• global (28)
• one (27)
• world (26)
• power (21)
• change (21)

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