Pope Expected to Talk Environment in US Congress

When he addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress next week, Pope Francis is expected to speak about the environment, and the need to combat climate change.   The Pope recently released an encyclical – or papal letter – on the environment. In the encyclical, entitled On Care for Our Common Home, he writes the Earth “cries out” because of the “harm inflicted on her by irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her.”   What’s more, he says, is that...

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