“A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system. In recent decades this warming has been accompanied by a constant rise in the sea level and, it would appear, by an increase of extreme weather events . ...”
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By Daniel E. Lee | May 20, 2017
It would be great if President Trump were a little more like Pope Francis and a little less like Donald Trump.
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump will have a private meeting with Pope Francis at the Apostolic Palace (the official residence of the pope) in Vatican City. The event will not be open to the public. (As it turns out, I will be in Rome at that time, along with 37 Augustana students; we, however, have not been invited to attend the meeting, though it is likely we will hear some thoughts about and responses to President Trump’s visit.)
It is difficult to imagine two individuals as dissimilar as Pope Francis and President Trump. Pope Francis is just about everything that President Trump is not, and vice versa.
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