Pope Leo XIV called on governments worldwide to increase regulations aimed at mitigating climate change , continuing the teachings of the late Pope Francis .

The Chicago-born pope made the remarks at the Raising Hope conference just south of Rome . The conference is intended to mark the 10th anniversary of Francis’s landmark encyclical on the environment .

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Published in 2015, Laudato Si called on the Catholic Church to put the environment at the center of its social teachings. Francis wrote that the Earth was starting to

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