Pope Francis acknowledged that "fighting poverty, both material and spiritual, building peace and constructing bridges" will be "difficult if we do not learn to grow in love for this world of ours," which involves both people and the environment.
"Here too, it helps me to think of the name of Francis, who teaches us profound respect for the whole of creation and the protection of our environment, which all too often, instead of using for the good, we exploit greedily, to one another's detriment," he said.
Well said, but let my analysis begin from the ground up. This Pope is asking everyone to love the earth and perhaps returning it to its pristine beginnings. It can be done when we all become once again an agrarian society which is precisely the kind of poverty the Pope wants to end and if he is truly so humble, he would refuse to be Pope and become a farmer in the sub-Saharan region and find a way to grow crops to feed the hungry.
Pope Francis, an Argentinian born Jorge Mario Bergoglio to Italian parents, could very well be a false prophet [1] for he has repeatedly been identifying himself with a saint who was most Christ-like, Francis of Assisi, but living in a hypocritical fashion which the saint would certainly not have approved for himself or his followers. He could also be the last Pope, according to Saint Malachy [2], even though he did not choose the name Petrus, but he chose the name Francis after Francis of Assisi who was born "Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone" which can be translated roughly into "Peter the Roman."
[1] Dictionary.com defines prophet as one who speaks for God and Francis of Assisi had done it with evidence that God had given him permission to do so. A false prophet on the other hand impersonates a prophet and claims to speak for God but there is no evidence that Pope Francis had been given the authority to do so.
[2] St. Malachy predicted that the last pope would be Petrus Romanus.
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