Pope Leo blesses ice at a Raising Hope for Climate Justice Conference.@Pontifex What are we doing here…? pic.twitter.com/HXPWhlzWQg
— Catholics for Catholics (@CforCatholics) October 1, 2025
UK Daily Mail: Woke American Pope Leo blesses a block of ice in bizarre climate change stunt after swiping at Trump’s global warming policies – ‘We will raise hope by demanding that leaders act with courage, not delay,’ Leo said as he gave the frozen water his blessing. He then asked: ‘Will you join with us?’
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UK Guardian: ‘Listen to the cry of the Earth’: Pope Leo takes aim at climate change sceptics – Pontiff laments that some ‘ridicule those who speak of global warming’, days after Trump’s claims of ‘con job’ –
Excerpt: Pope Leo XIV has taken aim at people who “ridicule those who speak of global warming” as he embraced Pope Francis’s environmental legacy and made it his own in some of his strongest and most extensive comments on the subject to date.
Leo presided over the 10th-anniversary celebration of Francis’s landmark ecological encyclical, Laudato Si (Praised Be), at a global gathering south of Rome. The encyclical cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral concern and launched a global grassroots movement to advocate for caring for God’s creation and the peoples most harmed by its exploitation.
Leo told the estimated 1,000 representatives from environmental and Indigenous groups that they needed to put pressure on national governments to develop tougher standards to mitigate the damage already done. He said he hoped the upcoming UN climate conference “will listen to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor”.He called for a change of heart to truly embrace the environmental cause and said any Christian should be onboard.
“We cannot love God, whom we cannot see, while despising his creatures. Nor can we call ourselves disciples of Jesus Christ without participating in his outlook on creation and his care for all that is fragile and wounded,” he said, presiding on a stage that featured a large chunk of a melting glacier from Greenland and tropical ferns.
GLOBAL WARMING: Leo blessing a block of ice for a climate cult. pic.twitter.com/RfUjQSu0q9
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World must come together to fight climate change, Pope Leo says –
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” during an international conference on climate justice, Pope Leo XIV continued his predecessor’s call for ecological conversion and concrete action to protect creation.
The pope spoke at the opening session along with former California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Full Video:
The Blessing of the Waters by Pope Leo XIV, at today’s ‘Raising Hope for Climate Justice’ International Conference at Castel Gandolfo. pic.twitter.com/QL5T5TOCvg
— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) October 1, 2025
Response to Pope Leo XIV
Your Holiness,
With the deepest seriousness and respect for your office, I must tell you plainly that your participation in the so-called “Blessing of the Waters” at the Raising Hope for Climate Justice conference is not consistent with the Gospel of… https://t.co/mpoB8Vcyzr
— Jonathan Cohler (@cohler) October 2, 2025
10-point note to Pope about the chunk of Greenland ice he is blessing:
1. Greenland was ice-free 100,000 years ago when atmospheric CO2 was at pre-industrial levels. https://t.co/ckblbsG0G2
2. Knowledge of Greenland's ice-free history dates back more than 30 years.… pic.twitter.com/hPPx9BzTvq
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) October 3, 2025
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