Grist: High-profile climate researchers, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and church officials will gather at the Vatican next week for a conference on climate change. It`s Pope Francis`s latest effort to raise the profile of the issue among churchgoers, and it`s sure to make some Catholics hot under the collar.
Since taking the helm of the church in 2013, Pope Francis has stated repeatedly that Christians have a moral obligation to lower carbon emissions. He has spoken frankly about how global warming...