Very strange choice of words for news article..."Doomsday pope warns man's greed will destroy world"

Disregard my question. A quick google search provided the answer as to why they were calling him the doomsday pope...

Prophecy of the Popes
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Resigning Pope Brings Doomsday Prophecy
[link to news.discovery.com]

Still very strange choice of words for the headline though

Last Edited by Wrath O' Luna on 11/20/2014 05:31 PM

Pope Francis warns human greed will 'destroy world'
[link to rt.com]

"Pope Francis has launched his latest attack against the excesses of capitalism, saying humankind will bring about the end of the world unless we rein in our rapacious greed.

"God always forgives, but the Earth does not," AFP cited the Argentine pope as telling the Second International Conference on Nutrition (CIN2) in Rome, organized by the UN food agency (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) in the Italian capital.

"Take care of the Earth so it does not respond with destruction," he warned those in attendance at the three-day conference, which included representatives from 190 countries.

Clearly taking a page from Jesus’s playbook, Pope Francis has made defense of the poor a key talking point for his papacy. Going beyond usual calls to implore people to charity to help those who are hungry and malnourished, he pointed a finger at perceived systemic problems in the global order.

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Due to his often condemnatory stance towards the present economic world order, many critics have labeled the 77-year-old pontiff a Marxist. The Pope, however, countered he was practicing true Christianity as expressed in the gospel, and that Communism had merely stolen Christian ideals."

I don't know anyone RC who liked the last Pope, they like this one even less... talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire...

Oh well...

i have a lot of friends and colleagues in France, heck I am close enough I could swim there, so yes this is strange coming from France which most would not credit is still deeply Roman Catholic... and it is that element that makes that title in France very strange..

Regardless of the dd word ... The message is what counts and what should be the focal point.

' Pope warns man's greed will destroy the world ' ... like , is anyone listening? or is it another case of selective hearing ...

Is it time to bring this into the political arena? ... to help foster new spiritual ways of life rather that materialistic / status driven egoic heathenism... I think we've tried that , the results are in ... and it's like the pope said ; killing life on our planet and our planet itself and our future.