Leak of Pope’s Encyclical on Climate Change Hints at Tensions in Vatican
The New York Times
(Jim Yardley and Elisabetta Povoledo) The unexpected leak of Pope Francis’ much-anticipated environmental encyclical has meant the return of something that not long ago was fairly common around the Vatican but had become often dormant during the two-plus years of Francis’ mostly charmed papacy: intrigue. Who
leaked it and why? Was this the work of frustrated conservatives in the
Vatican, as some experts have speculated? Does it portend big fights at
a pivotal October meeting in which church officials are expected to
grapple with homosexuality and divorce? Or is it just a tempest in a
teapot? (...)


























