Grist: On June 16, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush -- a self-proclaimed devout Catholic -- delivered some harsh words to an unexpected ideological opponent: the pope. In response to Pope Francis encyclical on climate change, which frames environmentalism as a Catholic issue, Bush declared that:
I dont get economic policy from my bishops or my cardinals or my pope. I think religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting in the political realm....