From a New York Time story by Jason Horowitz and Elisabetta Povoledo headlined “Francis Issues Urgent Call to Save a Planet Near ‘the Breaking Point'”:
Pope Francis once again implored the world to protect the suffering planet, lamenting in a major new document that scant progress had been made in the eight years since he refocused the Roman Catholic Church more fully on environmental issues in a landmark treatise that catapulted him to the forefront of climate activism.