With Bold Words And Baby Steps, Pope Finds Fans Beyond His Flock

BERGHe’s pleasing everyone but conservative and Traditional Catholics, for the most part.

The phrase “papal encyclical” isn’t one you’ll commonly find in headlines in the secular world. But that’s exactly where news of Pope Francis’ 192-page letter on climate change landed in June.

The Pope wrote that humans are responsible for climate change, urging all people to do a better job of caring for the environment — and his words resonated far beyond the church. MORE