Pope Leo XIV drew widespread attention after blessing a block of ice during a global climate event near Rome, directly challenging climate change deniers and urging global leaders to act decisively.

Without naming anyone, history’s first American pope spoke on climate change and slammed critics, just days after Donald Trump made false claims at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) about the "con job" of global warming.

During the tenth-anniversary celebration of Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si, Pope Leo XIV stood before a large chunk of a Greenland glacier and performed the blessing. "We will raise hope by demanding that leaders act with courage, not delay," Leo said as he gave the chunk of ice his blessing. He then asked: "Will you join with us?"

He presided over the gathering, which b

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