On his flight home from Paraguay, Pope Francis told journalists he was happy to hear from critics of his thought. Now, a prominent Catholic layman and a Church of England bishop have critiqued his encyclical on protecting the environment as advocating policies that are more likely to hinder than advance the cause.The Labour peer Lord (Bernard) Donoughue, and the Bishop of Chester, Peter Forster, claim “the encyclical is coloured too much by a hankering for a past world, prior to the Industrial Revolution, which is assumed to have been generally simpler, cleaner and happier”.In a paper published by the London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation – whose leading light is former chancellor Lord (Nigel) Lawson, a global warming sceptic – they say “for most peop
16 July 2015, The Tablet
Hearing from your critics
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