‘Pope’s Encyclical is like Hindu Scriptures’Economy of Francesco features 'anti-science' demagogue Vandana Shiva ASSISI, Italy (ChurchMilitant.com) - A key speaker at Pope Francis' Assisi-based "Economy of Francesco" conference has compared the pontiff's 2015 eco-encyclical Laudato Sí to Hindu Vedic texts. Vandana Shiva at a "Global Catholic Climate Movement" event Dr. Vandana Shiva, who has been labeled a "pseudoscientist," said she felt she "was reading our [Hindu] Vedic texts, especially the Atharvaveda on our duty to have reverence for the Earth and all her beings" when she read Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Sí. In a Thursday interview with Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore...