Practicing Summary & Paraphrasing

This blog is an exercise in practicing paraphrases and summaries in which I will be using my text as a source.

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Original Source: Quotation from "Forgive Them, Father" by Jeff Turrentine.

"For one thing, you couldn’t ask for a more effective messenger to deliver this message. At the moment, Pope Francis is enjoying something like super-pope status, his every utterance making headlines and sparking conversation among Catholics and non-Catholics alike. And by rhetorically tying climate action to the Christian mandate to aid the afflicted and give comfort to the needy, he’ll be doing much more than merely acknowledging the severity of the problem. By virtue of his moral authority, the pope has the singular ability to mobilize people all over the globe to take whatever form of action they can" (Turrentine p. 4).

My Paraphrase of Original Source:

Turrentine classifies the Pope as currently holding an undying love and support from millions of Catholics and non-Catholics.  His face, being plastered across national news every time speaks, and status could potentially give him the power to unite an entire community of millions under the common goal of good will and charity.  This rhetorical decision of the Pope to connect saving the environment to morality and ethics is not only recognition of the existence of climate change, it is also a call to action of all individuals of good moral complex.

My Summary of Original Source:

The Pope is one of the world's most influential figures in religion and in the media whose speech will have an impact on the entire world on a grand scale because he tied the environment directly to religious morals and ethics of good will and charity.