As Trump Guts Climate Rules, Pope Leo XIV Declares “It Is Not Yet Too Late” to Save Creation

The pope’s message quotes Benedict XVI, whom Newsweek called “the green pope” in 2008. Washington spent August paying $1.2 billion to cancel wind farms and opening 44 million forest acres to roads.

Pope Leo XIV presides at the Mass for the Care of Creation in the Garden of the Madonnina at Borgo Laudato Si’, Castel Gandolfo, on Sept. 1, 2026. The Mass opened the Season of Creation, which runs through the feast of St. Francis on Oct. 4. (Vatican Media)

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