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

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

Pope Francis was quick to grasp the risks posed by climate change. But his tenure showed humanity’s limits in confronting the ...

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

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.

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

With the death of Pope Francis on 21 April, we lost a powerful and persuasive force in the fight against climate change. It was probably to be expected that a Pope as progressive as him would draw ...

told CNN that Pope Francis’ attention to climate change and the environment was “unprecedented for a pontiff,” with “its significance and reach unparalleled to any faith leader.” ...

NCR analyzed the biographies, background, articles, speeches, homilies and media interviews of members of the College of ...

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 ...