What Pope Leo means for global climate action and colonialism

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By Anita HofschneiderMay 14, 2025, 4:15 am257 pts
On a sweltering January day in 2018, Pope Francis addressed 100,000 of the faithful in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, not far from where gold mining had ravaged an expanse of Amazon rainforest about the size of Colorado. “The native Amazonian peoples have probably never been so threatened on their own lands as they…

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