The Holy Father also made news by criticizing skeptics of climate change — and his remarks are also seen as a “thinly-veiled” dig on President Trump.
“If we don’t go back we will go down. That is true. You can see the effects of climate change with your own eyes and scientists tell us clearly the way forward,” said Pope Francis.
Then he quoted a phrase from the Old Testament: “Man is stupid, a stubborn, blind man.”