Pope Francis was an exceptionally learned and brilliant man. He had taught chemistry early in his career and so he understood ...

Pope Francis, who chose his papal name after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

In this edition of Climate Change & You, read about the vital role played by Pope Francis in the fight against climate change ...

Celia Deane-Drummond is a theology professor at the University of Oxford and director of a research institute named after the ...

Francis framed climate change as an urgent spiritual issue and helped push the world to take action.

Pope Francis called on the world and 1.4 billion Catholics to confront climate change. He brought attention to the issue but it's not clear he changed many minds.

When Pope Francis died the world lost not only the leader of the Catholic Church but also the first pontiff in history to take a stance on climate change.

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...

If there’s any reason to think the next pope will speak about climate change, it’s this: As temperatures rise, the consequences will keep intensifying. Francis was elected pope in 2013 — a ...