From Associated Press - Popes Support For Climate Change Action Deepens Conservatives Distrust Conservative distrust of Pope Francis, which has been building in the U.S. throughout his pontificate, is reaching a boiling point over his plan to urge action on climate change — and to do so through a document traditionally used for the most important papal teachings. For months, Francis has been drafting an encyclical on the environment and global warming which he hopes to release by June or July. Encyclicals are written with the help of a small group of advisers working under strict secrecy. But in a news conference as he traveled last week to the Philippines, Francis gave his strongest signal yet of the direction hell take... Even before these remarks, several conservative U.S. commentators had been pre-emptively attacking the encyclical. At Investors Business Daily, Forbes and TownHall, writers had accused the pope of adopting a radical environmental agenda. Pope Francis — and I say this as a Catholic — is a complete disaster when it comes to his public policy pronouncements, wrote Steve Moore, chief economist of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. On the economy, and even more so on the environment, the pope has allied himself with the far left and has embraced an ideology that would make people poorer and less free. talkingpointsmemo/news/pope-francis-climate-change-conservatives
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 23:14:33 +0000
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