For past so many years, The Pope Francis Times has stood against popes over different moral issues. But when it came to climate change and science, Pope Francis has done something that no other pope could do. It led The Times to call a papal teaching as ‘authoritative’.

Many people are excited to go through the pope’ work in which he has wrote about climate change and held humans responsible for the same. There have been many popes who have issued critiques of modern Western culture.

But, Pope Francis has gone deeper. Talking about the encyclical, Editor R.R. Reno has called it as a ‘dark reflection on the systemic evils of modernity’. The pope seems to embrace the idea that global capitalism exploits people in poor nations.

There have been many examples when businesses befoul the environment and the cost has to be paid by the community. The pope’s encyclical urges everyone to pay heed nature’s warnings. It also calls on tackle the climate threat in the name of justice. Pope Francis thinks that the impoverished in the developing world cannot have better live until the West takes steps.

Given his stature and moral authority, the encyclical is expected to shape the US political landscape. A 70% of all Americans consider the pope favorable and 90% of American Catholics as well. But there are many who think that the pope should not intervene in such matters.