Commentary: Why would young people want and need a new economics? Isn't the market system doing just fine? Not in Pope Francis' view, nor that of the world's young people. And we agree.
Catholics across the world have embraced and acted on environmental encyclical Laudato Si'. But the consensus among Catholic ecological leaders is those responses have been not nearly as widespread as Francis sought.
Templeton honoree Dr. Francis Collins is a renowned American geneticist and physician, best-selling author, NIH director and a member of the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Governors from eight Amazonian states in Brazil and Peru meeting at the Vatican agreed that the Amazon is threatened and called for a "green economy" that would allow people to generate income without destroying the forest.
