The Pope Calls on Jerry Brown to Preach Climate Change Gospel

The California governor has accepted an invitation to attend a symposium July 21 at the Vatican highlighting the threat of climate change and the havoc its unchecked spread would wreak.

Jerry Brown, governor of California, arrives for a morning session during the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Thursday, July 9, 2015.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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California Governor Jerry Brown says that when he was 18 years old and studying to become a Jesuit priest, he couldn’t have fathomed that one day he would share a stage with the pontiff to discuss an issue of global importance.

Now he’s going to do just that. Brown, a 77-year-old Democrat, has accepted an invitation to attend a symposium July 21 at the Vatican hosted by Pope Francis highlighting the threat of climate change and the havoc its unchecked spread would wreak.