The following is a reflection by Fr. Alain Lorans, SSPX.
On October 1, 2025, in Castel Gandolfo, Leo XIV participated in a curious ceremony on a strange theme: Fostering hope for climate justice. The urgency of "ecological conversion" and the obligation to become "environmental crusaders" were discussed. At the end, the Pope blessed a block of ice that was melting on the spot.
It was revealed that this large block of ice was 20,000 years old, that it had been taken from the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland, where it was melting after having broken off from the ice sheet. It was melting, and even languishing, for it was a piece of Mother Earth whose pathetic cry we must listen to, as Pope Francis had requested.
This block was dripping, which proved that no ice remained. It was languishing, which was indeed a sign of distress. After the cry of the earth, the tears of the Greenlandic iceberg…
And to accompany this moving ceremony, there was the song by the group Gen Verde [Green Generation], composed of 19 women from 14 countries: I've Got Hope, which repeatedly stated (often a frantic repetition masks the lack of poetic inspiration): "Because I have hope, hope. Oh, oh, I have hope. It's a light that will never go out. I have hope, hope. Oh, oh, I have hope. I won't give in, I won't give up the fight."
What was Leo XIV doing on this stage, in front of this dripping block of ice? Aren't there other priorities, other urgencies? Since the Council, religious practice is melting away like snow in the sun, doctrine is becoming diluted, morality is dissolving… Broken and blended families are disintegrating, vocations are collapsing… And he is blessing a large block of ice!
Perhaps because it is the symbol of a post-conciliar Church that is itself melting away: liquid doctrine, fluid morality, empty seminaries…
If in Rome they listened less to the “cry of the Earth” and more to the “cry of souls,” they would hear: “Enough of ‘climate justice,’ ‘ecological conversion,’ ‘environmental crusaders’! Enough of this conciliar meteorology which, for 60 years, has claimed to discern the ‘signs of the times,’ when it is mainly looking for the direction of the wind so as to follow it submissively! Enough of these mitered weathercocks!”
“He who has ears, let him hear!” (Mt. 11:15). Source
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