Actress Juliette Binoche and fellow French environmentalists received encouragement from Pope Francis at a private Vatican meeting Thursday, where the pontiff confessed he did not understand more than a decade ago his fellow churchmens’ worries about the Amazon.
While he was still archbishop of Buenos Aires, “I didn’t understand anything” about ecology problems, he told the activists in improvised remarks. ″(Then) I followed a path of conversion, of understanding the ecological problem” of the Amazon’s exploitation, Francis said.
Francis’ understanding grew and formed the basis of his 2015 encyclical that called for urgent action to protect the Earth’s environment.
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