Climate justice central to Francis's message

Commentary: Pope Francis was a climate hero. Trump's reign gives his words extra meaning

The late pope's climate change encyclical, 'Laudato Si,' is more relevant than ever.

Patron Saint of 'Mother Earth'? TIME Mag Praises Lefty Pontiff As ‘The Climate Pope’

Apparently the recently deceased Pope Francis is the patron saint of "Mother Earth." At least that’s what the climate Armageddon-obsessed TIME magazine is trying to argue. TIME senior correspondent and eco-doom prophet Justin Worland’s papal obit read like a cheap comic strip: “The Climate Pope: Francis and His Environmental Legacy,” Worland’s headline read, celebrating the leftist pope for his radical eco crusaderism. According to Worland’s twi…

Throughout his pontificate, the Argentine pontiff, who died on Monday, used his influence to raise awareness of the issue of global warming. He even placed the defence of the environment at the heart of two of his major texts.

Climate justice central to Francis's message

Pope Francis was one of the greatest climate champions we have ever had.

Throughout his pontificate, Pope Francis transformed the environmental agenda into a spiritual mission. His death marks the end of an era marked by the courage to place climate urgency and socio-environmental justice at the center of religious discourse. No other leader of the Catholic Church, in two thousand years of history, had taken such a firm, direct and global stance on the ecological crisis. Since the encyclical *Laudato Si'*, published …

Contaminating was already a sin with Ratzinger. But on the Vatican walls there had never been talk of climate justice until Bergoglio put his gaze on such novel and rabid teenage proclamations. Activism against climate change was turning to the Global South. Pope Francis saw that the Vatican might not be a key state at COP summits. But it was an agent of political and moral pressure (lobby) around global warming and the environment. “If we destr…