The most awaited, and controversial papal document in half a century has been published. Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment is also the first on the subject in the history of Catholicism, and it has stirred up a hornet’s nest.<br /><br /> The Pope says he wants to influence the upcoming UN climate summit in Paris.<br /><br /> “This is an appeal for responsibility based on the task that God has given to man in creation; till and keep the garden in which he was placed,” he said to a packed St. Peter’s square in Rome. <br /><br /> The Vatican’s press office has batted away criticisms from conservatives, led by several US republican presidential candidates.<br /><br /> “He doesn’t want to give recipes, it’s not up to him, but he says that political leaders must care about these issues,” said Vatican journalist at Il Fatto Quotidiano Marco Politi.<br /><br /> In the encyclical the Pope condemns “a myopia of power politics” that has delayed decisive action, and what he called a “magical conception of the market” as being capable o
