Pope Francis urges protection of creation, weak
Source: AP via Monterey County Herald
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press - Posted: 03/19/2013 12:15:35 AM PDT
Pope Francis waves to crowds as he arrives to his inauguration Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 19, 2013.
VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis has urged princes, presidents, sheikhs and thousands of ordinary people gathered for his installation Mass to protect God's creation, the weakest and the poorest of the world.
He is officially beginning his ministry as the 266th pope with a clear focus of his priorities.
Francis was interrupted by applause several times during his homily Tuesday, including when he spoke of the need to protect the environment and serve one another with love and tenderness and not allow "omens of destruction," hatred, envy and pride to "defile our lives."
Francis said the pope "must open his arms to protect all of God's people and embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important.
Read more: http://www.montereyherald.com/world/ci_22821363/st-peters-fills-pope-francis-installation
okay it's official, he's installed, now comes the hard part
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As the Mass began, Francis received two symbolic emblems of his office as leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics — the fisherman’s ring, which recalls how St. Peter fished for food and later for souls, and the pallium, a white woolen vestment that symbolizes the role of the pope as a good shepherd.
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The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the Vatican does not issue invitations. “Those who wish to come, can,” he said. “No one is refused. No one is invited. We welcome those who want to come.”
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who is Catholic, will represent the United States at the Mass. The delegation also includes Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico; Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader in the House; and John J. DeGioia, the president of Georgetown University, a Jesuit institution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/world/europe/installation-of-pope-francis.html?_r=0
. . . and from WaPo:
Francis directly addressed the leaders of the 132 nations arrayed around him, including Vice President Biden.
“Please, I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be ‘protectors’ of creation, protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.
Let us not allow omens of destruction and death to accompany the advance of this world!”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/catholic-church-inaugurates-pope-francis-in-huge-open-air-mass/2013/03/19/72a80ff2-9064-11e2-9cfd-36d6c9b5d7ad_story_1.html
Rome (CNN) -- Through a square bustling with tourists, locals, pilgrims and dignitaries, Pope Francis made his way atop an open-top vehicle on Tuesday en route to a Mass that will officially inaugurate him Bishop of Rome.
He wore the simple iron cross he wore as a cardinal and which he had on when he first appeared to the world as pope.
When the gathered faithful at St. Peter's Square held up babies and young children for him to kiss, he obliged.
He also stepped out of his sports utility vehicle to kiss the head of a man with a physical disability.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19/world/europe/vatican-new-pope/?hpt=hp_t1
And the whole mass was extremely impressive, certainly historical. And a beautiful day. He really does seem to echo Pope John. 
And I certainly envy him. Here in NY, it's been snowing all night. 
per france info:
http://www.franceinfo.fr/monde/des-milliers-de-personnes-place-saint-pierre-pour-la-messe-inaugurale-du-pape-924261-2013-03-19
Doesn't waste time, does he?
Here's the schedule in English... 
They keep saying his mitre's much smaller, but it looks fairly large to me. It looks like a very promising start.
Pope Francis’s inauguration Mass – live updates
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/breaking/2013/03/19/pope-franciss-inauguration-mass-live-updates/
and dispensing advice is a big part of his job, but it turns out that conservation has been considered a civic responsibility in Italy for a long time, for practical but also religious reasons. The Republic of Venice for example kept track of every tree in its surrounding territories, back when it had a lot of them. I came across a study published a couple of years ago about 15th-century Venetian conservation efforts which apparently were extensive. Practices tend to fall out of use during war and hard times brought by plague and commercial reversals but it seems they've been at it for some time. If I can find the title I'll post it.
by an ecological historian named Karl Appuhn, who knocks over a couple of widely held views of medieval foresting practices. The first is that they were suicidally exploitative, reducing a one-time powerhouse like Venice to a backwater once it had stripped its domestic timber supplies and deforested itself into poverty. Nice parable, it seems, but not what the record shows.
A second idea he knocks down is that renaissance forest management, when it was practiced, was mechanistic and Baconian, shrewdly focused on maximizing profit and disregarding natural, ecological or spiritual ends. This, too, proves a myth once the Venice record is examined. Here are the Amazon description and link, and a couple of screen-shot excerpts from the first chapter:
Karl Appuhn - Publication Date: December 9, 2009
Wood was essential to the survival of the Venetian Republic. To build its great naval and merchant ships, maintain its extensive levee system, construct buildings, fuel industries, and heat homes, Venice needed access to large quantities of oak and beech timber. The island city itself was devoid of any forests, so the state turned to its mainland holdings for this vital resource.
Karl Appuhn explains how Venice went from an isolated city completely dependent on foreign suppliers for wood to a regional state with a sophisticated system of administering and preserving forests. Intent on conserving this invaluable resource, Venice employed specialized experts to manage its forests.
The state bureaucracy supervised this work, developing a philosophy about the environment—namely, a mutual dependence between humans and the natural world—that was far ahead of its time. Its efforts kept many large forest preserves under state protection, some of which still stand today.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0801892619/ref=rdr_ext_tmb
from page 9:
from pp. 23-24:
