Pope Leo XIV has just presided over a new liturgical service designed to advance the Vatican’s “climate change” agenda, continuing the globalist-aligned campaign of his predecessor, Pope Francis.
However, the language used by the new pope signals a possible shift in tone as the Catholic Church seeks to up the fearmongering ante on “global warming.”
The event marked the formal debut of the newly created “Mass for the Care of Creation,” celebrated quietly in the gardens of Castel Gandolfo.
The service, attended by a small number of prelates and staff, including Archbishop Vittorio Viola and Archbishop John Joseph Kennedy, was the first time the new Mass texts were used publicly.
The Mass texts were approved by Pope Leo on June 8.
Though the new Mass was approved under Pope Leo, its ideological fingerprints trace back to Francis, who pushed climate messaging into Church doctrine with his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’, which cast “man-made global warming” as a theological crisis.
The Mass was timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of that encyclical.
According to a decree from the Vatican’s Dicastery for Divine Worship, the new Mass was instituted because “it is evident that the work of creation is seriously threatened because of the irresponsible use and abuse of the goods God has endowed to our care (cf. Laudato si’ n. 2).”
Cardinal Michael Czerny, an outspoken advocate for green agenda regulation and global governance structures, presented the texts earlier this month.
He described the Mass as a response to Laudato Si’ and claimed that the Church has “continually affirmed the ‘mutual responsibility between human beings and nature,’” quoting the encyclical’s assertion that the liturgy must “help us to learn how to care” for the Earth.
Critics have long warned that such language closely mirrors talking points pushed by “climate” bureaucrats and unelected global entities like the United Nations and the World Economic Forum (WEF), who regularly leverage ecological fears to push for population control, regulatory overreach, and central planning.
Notably, the Vatican joined the Paris Climate Accord in 2022, despite its embedded support for abortion rights under the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goal 5.6.
The Mass itself was celebrated in the Vatican’s “Borgo Laudato Si” garden, a physical manifestation of Francis’ encyclical, which Pope Leo called “a laboratory” for “new and effective ways of caring for the nature entrusted to us.”
He expressed support for the project, assuring attendees of his “prayers and encouragement.”
In his homily, Pope Leo blended scripted remarks with off-the-cuff comments, a first for his pontificate.
He acknowledged that Pope Francis’ writings remain “relevant,” particularly “in a world that is burning, both from global warming and from armed conflicts.”
The language marked one of his strongest endorsements to date of the climate-focused worldview.
However, Leo appeared to stop short of embracing Francis’ more hyperbolic climate rhetoric.
Instead of invoking “Mother Earth” or blaming mankind wholesale for ecological collapse, as Francis often did, Leo framed the issue more as a moral and spiritual challenge, citing “sin” as the root cause of the “breakdown of our relationships with God, with our neighbors, and with the Earth.”
He called for “conversion” for those who have not yet adopted “climate” priorities:
“We must pray for the conversion of many people, inside and outside the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for our common home.”
The pope added that “many natural disasters… are also partly caused by the excesses of human beings, with their lifestyle,” suggesting a continuation of the Vatican’s embrace of behavioral control and eco-moralism.
Still, Tuesday’s Mass presented a noticeably more measured tone than the sweeping declarations and radical proposals that defined Francis’ climate push.
Where Pope Francis frequently echoed the language of extinction rebellion activists and U.N. bureaucrats, Pope Leo’s message, while supportive of creation care, was more restrained, eschewing calls for global policy shifts and instead emphasizing individual spiritual reflection.
Nevertheless, Leo’s “world that is burning” rhetoric appears to be an escalation in language.
For those concerned about the growing overlap between the Church’s message and secular globalist collectivism, Leo’s approach may signal at least a partial retreat from Francis’ activist model.
But the institutional infrastructure remains intact, from Laudato Si’ to the Vatican’s formal role in the Paris Agreement, leaving the door wide open for continued alignment between the Holy See and globalist institutions.
Whether Pope Leo will ultimately reinforce or moderate this trajectory remains to be seen.
But as critics of climate alarmism and top-down governance look for signs of change, Tuesday’s Mass, though still firmly within the green agenda, suggested that a shift in tone, if not policy, may be beginning.
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