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Pope Francis Raises Hopes for an Ecological Church
2013-03-23 00:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The new pope's choice of the name Francis, to honour the Catholic Church's patron saint of animals and the environment, has awakened the hopes of ecologists and others who are concerned about rampant consumerism and the deterioration of the planet. In 1979, then Pope John Paul II proclaimed St. Francis of Assisi (1181/1182-1226) the patron saint of ecologists. In his first mass as pope, on Mar. 19, Jorge Bergoglio said: "Let us be protectors of creation, protectors of God`s plan inscribed in nature,...
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