Lucia Silecchia , professor, law, was quoted in a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story on the Pope's upcoming encyclical on climate change. See below.
From: Tribune-Review Date: March 8, 2015 Author: Craig Smith
...It is unusual for the topic of an encyclical to be announced and discussed so extensively before its release, said Lucia A. Silecchia, law professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington and one of nine Americans who attended a 2007 Vatican conference on climate change and development.
The Internet is brimming with political, theological and academic analyses of what the pope might say, in large part because of hints he gives about the encyclical's contents.
"No one knows right now what the encyclical will say; yet there has already been much commentary on it," Silecchia said.
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