Religion and Politics

Catholics Organize to Promote Pope’s Climate Change Message

The Associated Press’s Rachel Zoll reports on how the Catholic Church is organizing around Pope Francis’s upcoming encyclical on climate change. “While previous popes have made strong moral and theological arguments in favor of environmental protection, Francis will be the first to address global warming in such a high-level teaching document,” Zoll writes. The encyclical will be released in June, before a U.N. climate change conference later this year.

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