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

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.

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

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.

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 ...

He declared the issue was "intimately related to the dignity of human life." When Pope Francis died, the world lost not only the leader of the Catholic Church but also the first pontiff in history ...

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.” ...