(LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican is quadrupling down on its support for the green agenda.
Last month, the Holy See submitted to the United Nations its plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent over the next decade.
Among other things, the plan, which is part of the Church’s obligation to the Paris Climate Accords — which the Trump administration withdrew from earlier this year — will include developing a 1,000-acre solar panel farm just north of Rome. The Vatican already has solar panels on the roof of St. Paul VI hall and the entrance of the Vatican Museums.
The plan comes as Pope Leo XIV held a ceremony for the opening of the Laudato Si village at Castel Gandolfo last month. Leo personally approved of the homosexual “married” man who is to oversee the facility’s dining services, Art Smith, a celebrity chef based out of Chicago who used to cook for Oprah Winfrey.
This week, Leo held a private audience with socialist Brazilian President Lula da Silva. The meeting saw Lula invite Leo to the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference in the Amazon.
Brazil’s President Lula da Silva met Pope Leo today & invited him to the UN’s COP 30 climate change conference in Belém next month.@Cop30noBrasil
Leo reportedly said he would not attend “due to the Jubilee, but guaranteed Vatican representation in Belém.” pic.twitter.com/xc4crzPegW
— Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 (@MLJHaynes) October 13, 2025
Leo ultimately declined the invite due to a scheduling conflict, but Lula announced on X that Leo “guaranteed Vatican representation” would be at the meeting.
Relatedly, it is not known if Leo urged Lula to grant a pardon to former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a devout Catholic who consecrated the country to the Blessed Virgin Mary in 2022 but who was unjustly sentenced to 27 years in prison by the country’s tyrannical Supreme Court for “plotting” a military coup after the race was stolen from him.
The Vatican’s commitment to climate ideology has inspired Bishop John Stowe, the left-wing ordinary of the Diocese of Lexington, to announced that his diocese will have all of its buildings be “net zero” by 2030.
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“Living our vocation as protectors of God’s handiwork is a life of virtue,” Josh Van Cleef, director of Lexington’s Office of Peace and Justice, told Catholic News Agency this week. “When we look to Pope Francis, Laudato Si’, and Pope Leo, it is clear that the Church is called to urgent and decisive action.”
During his first five months in office, Leo has indeed continued the green legacy of his predecessor. He has repeatedly spoken about the need to protect “our common home,” has urged the world to hear “the cries of the earth,” and, perhaps most controversially, he blessed a piece of ice at a bizarre climate event where atheist actor Arnold Schwarzenegger gave prepared remarks.
Leo’s first apostolic exhortation, Dilexi Te, solidified the ecological vision of his predecessor. In it, Leo cited Francis’ Laudato Si’ on multiple occasions. “The deterioration of the environment and of society affects the most vulnerable people on the planet,” it reads.
Notably, it made no mention of the need for prayer, fasting, or the preaching of the Catholic faith to help souls out of spiritual poverty and help reform social injustices.
While it is no doubt true that Catholics are called to be good stewards of the natural resources God has given to mankind, it is theologically incorrect to refer this planet as our “common home.” In fact, Scripture is crystal clear in stating that this world is “passing away” and that a “new heaven and a new earth” will be consummated at the end of the time.
What’s more, the Paris Climate Accords is simply a tool to usher in a global police state that seeks to diminish the world’s population with contraceptives, abortion, and vaccine injections that sterilize young women. The Accords specifically endorse the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals, of which Goal #5 is to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls,” and to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive rights.
President Donald Trump rightly withdrew the U.S. from the Accords earlier this year, arguing that it fails to penalize other nations that pollute too much and that it intrudes too much on American sovereignty. He also exited the U.S. from the globalist World Health Organization (WHO), citing its mishandling of the COVID crisis. The WHO is notoriously pro-abortion and pro-contraception and has pushed the harmful COVID inoculations and lockdown policies worldwide.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S., has drawn attention to growing proxy war that is being waged between the Vatican under Leo and the UN and those in the West, like Donald Trump, who want to protect their countries from the green agenda and unvetted foreign immigrants. His words below are worth reflecting on as this battle unfolds in the coming months and years.
“The migratory phenomenon … was desired and planned as a means of destabilizing Western nations … this is stated in a United Nations document of March 21, 2000, entitled ‘Replacement Migration,’” His Excellency remarked. “The Holy See is complicit in the subversive plan hatched by the globalist elite.”
“[A]busing the moral authority of the Papacy, the Synodal Church equates immigration, the death penalty, and abortion, to the delight of the woke Left and to the great scandal of pro-life movements.”
