Pope Francis has blamed climate change on ‘the irresponsible lifestyle connected with the Western model’. The pontiff urged world leaders on Wednesday to commit to binding targets to slow climate change before it’s too late, warning that God’s increasingly warming creation is fast reaching a ‘point of no return.’ In an update to his landmark 2015 encyclical…
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Pope Francis makes it clear: Climate change must be a priority for all Catholics (especially Americans)
The release eight years ago of “Laudato Si’” marked an important moment in history: For the first time, a pope had devoted an entire encyclical to the relationship between Christian faith and environmental ethics. No longer were issues like climate change and environmental devastation matters only for scientists to parse or politicians to debate; they…
