How Pope Francis united a once-skeptical Church with climate action

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic Church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, in honor of the 13th-century Saint Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of environmentalists…

How Pope Francis united a once-skeptical Church with climate action

Pope Francis, who chose his papal name after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ecologists, was the fiercest climate and environment advocate in the church’s history.

Pope Francis was a reformist, environmentalist and peace advocate

BY the time you read this, Jorge Bergoglio, the first pope to choose the name Francis, would have been buried. Coming from the Society of Jesus, commonly called the Jesuit Order, one would have thought the name was chosen in honour of St Francis Xavier, one of its founding members (and, coincidentally, a saint who had visited the Malay peninsula centuries ago). However, the name was chosen in honour of St Francis of Assisi. According to some rep…

GUEST APPEARANCE: Pope Francis was a breath of fresh air

A man and leader in our time, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better known as Pope Francis, is dead. He passed away, giving his final homily the day before on Easter Sunday, the holiest day for Roman Catholics. Coming from Argentina and…

From the first minute, when he made public the name he had chosen for his papacy, Jorge Mario Bergoglio linked his work at the head of the Catholic Church to the environment and the defense of the “common house” of Humanity, planet Earth. The entry Francis, the Pope who embraced the scientific evidence on climate change and put the environment at the center was first published in Teleamazonas.

We republish three posts by Jean Gadrey on Pope Francis' encyclical on climate change. These posts allow us to appreciate the position of Pope Francis on this essential issue. This text was first published on Presse-tous to the left in 2015. It is taken from Jean Gadrey's blog.