Thursday, June 18, 2015

Pope Urges Cath. Church Combat Climate Change; Humans Have Moral Duty to Protect Environment

Pope Francis today (June 18, 2015) threw the weight of the Catholic Church behind a new appeal to combat climate change, asserting the future of humanity is at stake and dismissing those who deny the planet is getting warmer, the USA Today website reports.

Francis unequivocally lined the Catholic Church upon the side of the environment with the release of church doctrine that condemned polluters and governments alike for failing to do enough to address the problem.

In the first encyclical written entirely under his papacy, Francis said humans have a moral obligation to protect the environment and that doing so is a key part of the challenge of lifting the world's least fortunate from poverty.

"We need a conversation which includes everyone, since the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affect us all," the pope said.

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