Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, who gave the keynote address at the presentation last week of Laudato si’, said this week that the Pope’s “green” encyclical would leave some countries “in a quandary”, write Christa Pongratz-Lippitt and Mark Brolly. “The Poles believe in the blessings of coal and in the Pope. They are in a quandary,” he said, while Australia’s Catholic Prime Minister Tony Abbot had invoked the Vatican to dismiss climate change as a minor problem.
25 June 2015, The Tablet
Encyclical ‘could be problematic’
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