Reporting on Texas floods, L’Osservatore Romano chides Trump administration over climate policies
July 08, 2025
The Vatican newspaper devoted the most prominent front-page coverage in its July 5 edition to the central Texas floods that left over 20 dead at Camp Mystic, a Christian girls’ camp.
In “Tragica alluvione in Texas“ [Tragic flood in Texas], staff journalist Guglielmo Gallone reported on the tragic incident, as well as on the reactions of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and President Donald Trump. Gallone then wrote:
Yet, to date, the efforts of the central administration seem to focus less and less on the need to address such crises in a structural and preventive way, as confirmed by the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on Climate or the recent decision not to dedicate even a dollar to climate research in the annual budget of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
This instead appears urgent because the United States is experiencing a wave of increasingly powerful environmental disasters: if in 2023 the historical record of 28 extreme climate events was recorded—including storms, hurricanes and floods—in 2024 27 extreme climate events were recorded with damages equal to $182.7 billion and at least 88 victims recorded between January and September ... A sad record that must be remedied by finding the right balance between the climate crisis and the energy crisis, rejecting both simplistic solutions and denialist slogans.
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Posted by: kmmcki -
Jul. 09, 2025 3:29 PM ET USA
Has the Vatican lost its grip on common sense and the physical laws of nature? To use the tragedy unfolding in Kerrville, TX to promote the errant science of 'climate change' is despicable. Is the Church now joined at the hip with pagan Nature worshippers? The soil in that area of Central TX is clay like in texture. It doesn't absorb water very well, especially in an historic downpour. The result is a massive wall of water rising quickly pushed along by its own mass. Physics. Pray for the dead.
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Posted by: Crusader -
Jul. 08, 2025 11:16 AM ET USA
Pathetic article from the Vatican newspaper.
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Posted by: feedback -
Jul. 08, 2025 7:29 AM ET USA
Trump was inaugurated as the US President less than six month ago. It takes a very specific political activist publication to blame him for the recent natural disaster. Two pontificates ago, L’Osservatore Romano used to be a trustworthy newspaper of the Holy See.
