As climate change fears rise, Pope Francis says he is updating his ‘green’ encyclical
“Young generations have a right,” Catholic pontiff says, “to receive a beautiful and inhabitable world from us.”
(Alessandra Tarantino | AP) Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican in April 2023. The Catholic pontiff plans to update his 2015 “green” encyclical on the environment as worries about climate change grow.