Addressing a crowd of nearly 15000 on the south lawn,pope invokes Martin Luther King Jr in speaking of the moral need to protect our ‘common domestic’Have you met the pope? Share your experiencesPope Francis addressed one of the thorniest issues in American politics on Wednesday with a White House speech explicitly supporting Barack Obama’s blueprint to cut carbon emissions and chastising climate change deniers for failing in their duty to protect our “common domestic”.
In a tougher-than-expected call for action on global warming, the spiritual leader of more than 70 million American Catholics defied calls among some Republicans to steer clear of politics by making clear he believed this was a moral issue. Related: Pope Francis calls for climate change action in White House speech – live Not sure whether that was a speech by the head of the Catholic Church or Al Gore ...
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Source: theguardian.com