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New York Times
ROME — In a leaked draft of his much-awaited environmental encyclical, Pope Francis offers a broad vision of an endangered planet, partly blaming human activity for global warming and calling for all people to take swift action.The Vatican press office said that the 192-page document, posted in Italian on Monday by the Italian magazine L’Espresso, was not the final draft of the pontiff’s encyclical, which will remain under embargo before being released on Thursday.
In the document, Francis wrote that he hoped his encyclical would inspire action not just by Roman Catholics but by people of all creeds and religions around the world.
“In this encyclical, I intend especially to engage in a dialogue with everyone about our common house,” he wrote.
It is unclear how similar, or not, this draft will be to the final document.
The Guardian
Pope Francis will this week call for changes in lifestyles and energy consumption to avert the “unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem” before the end of this century, according to a leaked draft of a papal encyclical.In a document released by an Italian magazine on Monday, the pontiff will warn that failure to act would have “grave consequences for all of us”.
Francis also called for a new global political authority tasked with “tackling … the reduction of pollution and the development of poor countries and regions”. His appeal echoed that of his predecessor, pope Benedict XVI, who in a 2009 encyclical proposed a kind of super-UN to deal with the world’s economic problems and injustices.
According to the lengthy draft, which was obtained and published by L’Espresso magazine, the Argentinean pope will align himself with the environmental movement and its objectives. While accepting that there may be some natural causes of global warming, the pope will also state that climate change is mostly a man-made problem.
CNN
It's the latest summer blockbuster: A spiritual superhero armed with a pen and a prayer gears for battle against the forces of evil -- energy executives. The future of the planet hangs in the balance.At least, that's the premise behind a tongue-in-cheek trailer released ahead of Pope Francis' widely anticipated statement on the environment this week.
Made by a Brazilian environmental group, the trailer is playfully hyperbolic. (With Terminator-like intensity, the white-robed hero growls, "It's time to take out the trash.") But it nicely captures the hot air swirling around Francis' encyclical, due to be published Thursday.
Green groups eagerly await it, climate change skeptics can't wait to rebut it, and GOP politicians approach it at their peril.
USA Today
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis says most climate change is due to human activity and calls it one of the most important moral issues facing society, according to a draft leaked Monday of his long-awaited encyclical on global warming.The 191-page draft says the problem needs urgent action and is a key issue related to development and poverty.
The leaked draft in Italian was posted online Monday by L'Espresso magazine, prompting consternation from the Vatican. The final document is scheduled to be released Thursday. The Vatican asked journalists to "respect professional standards" and await the final text.
The Vatican spokesman, Federico Lombardi, called the leak a "heinous decision" and cautioned that the document was a draft and not necessarily an accurate reflection of what the final encyclical will say.