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[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Turkson rebukes bishops and priests who continue to ‘deny climate change’Environmentalist Cardinal Peter Turkson slammed Catholic clergy who consider so-called climate change 'irrelevant' a decade after Laudato Si' was released.Cardinal Peter Turkson, the chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, lamented during an interview published this week that there are still several Catholic bishops and priests that “deny climate change” despite the purported progress made by Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical letter Laudato Si’ that called for “climate and ecological justice.”During part of an interview with the Austrian newspaper, Der Sonntag,...