Nice sounding words. But what is the reality? - the Vatican's own fertility rate sets about the right example for what is urgently needed throughout the planet.

Nothing whatsoever on human population size or growth. No balance. No sense of sustainability.

This message from the Pope is worse than nothing, because it sends the message that people across the world can continue to breed in an unmitigated manner.

It is also interesting that many right-wing catholics who otherwise think that Benedict (see foot-note) is the answer to all of the ills or the world in 2009 and beyond, are fully paid up subscribers to the anti-green cause, and big-time boosters of let it rip never-ending growth/expansion of the current system, namely capitalism

Capitalism as the ultimate expression of gods "plan" for humankind. God is the ultimate "creator"--capitalism encourages creativity therefore capitalism MUST be part of "gods" purpose and plan.

Some even wax lyrical about the "spirit" of capitalism.

The green-"religion" as paganism or the latest phase/development in the Marxist inspired anti-capitalism movement--having become environmentalists as a substitute for the collapse of communism.

footnote: their websites are full of Benedict and what he has to say as the ONLY answer to all the rotten-ness of the modern age, especially the confusions caused by the postmodern assault on the bed-rock foundations of Western "civilization".

Okay.. so when does he sell off the Popemobile and the Gucci shoes, rent out the Vatican and all the other palaces to the poor and start selling condoms in Africa? Words are cheap.

We all care what the pope says, or at least those who believe in the Vatican & the supporting media's lies do. We believe so much in hearing the Pope deny the claims of child sex abuses for the sake of damaging the churches image, we allow them to continue ownership of charity organizations that look after the welfare of preschools & education, or at least Kevin Rudd does. Just reading the commentary here, I can see just how much everyone believes what the Pope say's & just how much the Popes lies determine their judgment towards him.

When the money grabbing Italian institution is elected as our governing body, I might pay some attention to the policies he's trying to sleaze under our diverted attention but until then I will consider him & the Vatican, as a pack of slimy child molesters.

Yawn, more Vatican spin from Ratzinger. I guess he needs to say
something to impress his diminishing flock and pretend that he cares.

In reality the pope should be charged with environmental degradation
as no organisation on this earth has done more to stifle modern
family planning, then his Vatican organisation.

It took the Vatican something like 400 years to acknowledge that
Galileo was indeed correct. Perhaps it will take them another
400 years to acknowledge that an ever growing human population
is indeed the world's number 1 problem and his bleatings about
the environment are rather useless, given that he does not understand
biology 101.