Pope Francis met with participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican on Nov. 12.

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Pope Francis met with participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican on Nov. 12, 2018.

Pope Francis that the pandemic, combined with global warming and the loss of biodiversity, should encourage humanity “to rethink its course, to repent and to undertake an ecological conversion.”