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Republican presidential hopefuls on hot seat, thanks Pope Francis
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: For more than half a century, Catholic politicians in the United States have regularly been put in awkward positions on the question of how closely they would -- or should -- follow the dictates of the Vatican. Until recently, Democrats usually were the ones to feel the most heat. But now it is the turn of Republicans, thanks to Pope Francis, the charismatic and activist pontiff who is set to visit the United States in September. The popes 192-page call to action Thursday, which blames the...
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Pope Francis warns climate change human causes & 'grave implications' landmark encyclical
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In a historic document addressed to "every person living on this planet," Pope Francis warns that climate change and other forms of environmental degradation have reached a crisis point. Francis frames "Laudato Si'," the first papal encyclical devoted solely to ecological issues, as an "urgent appeal ... for a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet." Encyclicals are among the highest forms of Catholic teaching a pontiff can publish. "A very solid scientific consensus...
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Excerpts from Pope Francis encyclical on the environment
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Pope Francis on Thursday issued a major encyclical on the environment, called "Laudato Si (Praise Be), On the Care of Our Common Home". Here are some key excerpts from the official English version: ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS CAUSES "In recent decades this warming has been accompanied by a constant rise in the sea level and, it would appear, by an increase of extreme weather events, even if a scientifically determinable cause cannot be assigned to each particular phenomenon. Humanity is called...
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Pope Francis' climate message yields little GOP response
2015-06-19 09:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Pope Francis' call for dramatic action on climate change drew a round of shrugs from congressional Republicans, while a number of the party's presidential candidates ignored it entirely. "I don't want to be disrespectful, but I don't consider him an expert on environmental issues," said Texas Rep. Joe Barton, a senior Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee, in a comment echoed by others in his party. Even Capitol Hill's Catholic Republicans, despite their religion's reverence for the...
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Pope Francis calls for new system of global government to tackle climate change
2015-06-19 04:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The Pope has been hailed for making a profoundly important intervention to the debate on global warming after making clear that climate change is real, dangerous and manmade as he called for a new system of global government to tackle this unprecedented worldwide threat. In his eagerly awaited encyclical, Pope Francis made a frank plea to world leaders to ignore the short-term outlook that has always dominated politics and look to the long-term instead. It is essential to root out widespread corruption...
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