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Francis moving Church from pale green to deep green

2015-01-19 06:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Global Pulse: There is one area where the last three popes have been right on the ball: the issue of care for the environment. John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis have been far ahead of most politicians on this issue. It's widely expected that Pope Francis will issue an encyclical on the environment and climate change early this year in time to influence the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris in late 2015. He is already being hailed in the The Guardian, Bloomberg and Fairfax Media as "rattling' and "upsetting'...

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Pope Francis Talks Poverty, Climate Change Ahead of Philippine Mass

2015-01-17 23:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

WSJ: On the last full day of his visit to the Philippines, Pope Francis called on Filipinos to remember the poor, particularly children, in a country where high birthrates and high levels of poverty have created tensions between the Catholic Church and advocates of population control. The 78-year-old pontiff also denounced climate change, arguing it is having a disproportionate effect on developing countries such as the Philippines, which suffers from frequent natural catastrophes including the Nov....

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Pope Francis Honors Filipinos Suffered Typhoon Devastation

2015-01-16 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Wall Street Journal: Pope Francis paid an emotional tribute Saturday to Filipinos who suffered the devastation of the 2013 typhoon, celebrating a Mass under driving rain in the town that was hit hardest by the disaster. The pope arrived in Tacloban Saturday morning in what is a major highlight of his weeklong tour of Asia. Pope Francis arrived in the Philippines on Thursday after a two-day visit to Sri Lanka in his first visit as pontiff to both countries. Before a crowd of hundreds of thousands who waited for...

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Pope Francis: climate change mostly mans fault

2015-01-16 18:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: Pope Francis has said that the majority of climate change is mans fault and criticised climate negotiations for failing to progress quickly enough during his tour of Asia. According to Reuters, the Pope said, I dont know if it is all [mans fault] but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature. We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth. I think man has gone too far. Thank God that today there are voices that are...

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