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ROME — Pope Francis insists in a new book things will never be the same in a post-pandemic world, calling instead for the establishment of a “new world order.”

Pope Francis says in a new book that anyone who truly cares about the environment will necessarily be opposed to abortion.

Vatican News praised the decision of 47 faith-based institutions to divest from fossil fuels, saying the move followed “the Vatican’s guidelines on ethical investments.”

Climate alarmists have warned that a Trump reelection could mean America becoming a “failed state” as well as the possible “extinction” of the human race.

Pope Francis said Wednesday that the earth, sea, and all creatures possess a “mystical capacity” to bring humanity to God and into communion with nature.

Jane Fonda ramps up her climate change rhetoric in an interview Thursday with Time magazine, in which she urges “civil disobedience” and the adoption of the Green New Deal.

Pope Francis thanked a group of French ecologists in the Vatican Thursday for their efforts to “save the environment,” which is undergoing a “disturbing degradation.”

The Mediterranean Sea was considerably warmer during the period of the Roman Empire 2000 years ago than it is today according to a new study published in Scientific Reports.

The Jesuit Post is urging the imposition of a U.S. carbon tax to “disincentivize” the use of fossil fuels and “generate revenue” to address the negative effects of climate change.

Well-known climate activist Michael Shellenberger has issued a public apology for the unfounded panic caused by environmentalists over the fabricated horrors of global warming.

The United Nations (U.N.) announced Sunday the electric car boom will result in a number of devastating ecological side effects for the planet.

Several Vatican departments have jointly published a manual on care for the environment as part of Pope Francis’ ongoing campaign for “ecological conversion.”

Climate alarmists have upped the ante once more, insisting that global warming is directly tied to law enforcement and therefore “climate justice” cannot be achieved without defunding the police.

Pope Francis employed some of his strongest environmental rhetoric to date Friday, insisting that the planet earth is “sick,” “wounded,” and “bleeding.”

The Catholic bishops of the European Union (COMECE) have endorsed the European Green Deal as an “underpinning strategy” for a continent-wide plan of recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

The director general of the Vatican bank, Gian Franco Mammì, confirmed this week that the institution holds no investments in the fossil fuel industry, apparently in response to challenges from climate change activists.

ROME — The Vatican has announced a special “anniversary year” to commemorate Pope Francis’s “prophetic” 2015 encyclical letter on the environment, Laudato Sì.

A team of researchers has used climate models to project that in 50 years one-third of the earth’s population will be living in an extremely hot environment, comparable to the Sahara Desert.

Pope Francis announced a “global campaign” to fight for the environment Tuesday, issuing an “urgent call to respond to the ecological crisis.”

Lent is a time “to devote oneself to a holy ecology of the heart,” Pope Francis told pilgrims in the Vatican Wednesday, and a time to follow Jesus into the desert.

Education is a “dynamic reality” and an “ecological movement,” Pope Francis told a gathering of Catholic educators in the Vatican Thursday.

India’s capital city has recorded its coldest December in over a century, with its lowest average temperatures since 1901, Firstpost reported Saturday.

Efforts to rein in global warming by eating less meat, driving electric cars, or subsidizing solar energy are completely ineffective, writes a professor at the Copenhagen Business School, and constitute nothing other than “pointless virtue signaling.”

The president of the Latin-American Catholic Bishops’ Conference (CELAM) said that Europeans need to leave behind a “poetic” understanding of climate change to begin combating it effectively.

The rate of destruction from climate change “is now so acute and so vast that it cannot be ignored” proclaims Wired magazine in a breathless essay Saturday insisting that the planet is “burning.”

Pope Francis recalled a massive storm that struck northern Italy last fall, saying that such natural disasters are nature’s way of sounding an alarm to make us more environmentally engaged.

Pope Francis upbraided political leaders for their half-hearted response to the climate crisis Wednesday, suggesting that their weak resolve in cutting emissions reveals a lack of political will.

The driver of a tour bus on the Galapagos Islands has been fined over $11,000 for having accidentally run over a tortoise in danger of extinction, damaging the creature’s shell.

A team of UK scholars have fired back at unscientific claims by PETA and other groups that veganism is a “greener” option that eating meat, insisting that meat has “massive social benefits.”

The United Nations has threatened governments that unless they strengthen their Paris climate pledges, the world will face “mass extinctions” and “large parts of the planet” will be uninhabitable.

Pope Francis told a group of lawyers that he could like to introduce the category of “ecological sin” into official Catholic teaching.

The archbishop of Mexico City said this week in Rome that climate change skeptics are the “black sheep” of the Catholic Church since environmental “experts” believe we are near a point of no return.

Pope Francis employed ecological language to describe the Christian mission Sunday, summarizing the task of Jesus’ disciples as giving “pure and fresh air to those immersed in the pollution of our world.”

Participants in the Vatican synod on the Amazon region proposed adding “sins against the environment” to lists of traditionally recognized sins in their second day of discussions and deliberations.

Indigenous leaders of the Amazon offered up prayers for the Earth in the Vatican gardens on Friday with Pope Francis, who consecrated the upcoming Pan-Amazon Synod to St. Francis of Assisi.

More than 500 experts in the sciences, academia, economics, business, law, and other fields have sent a “European Climate Declaration” to the Secretary General of the United Nations asking for a long-overdue, high-level, open debate on climate change.