Gov. Gavin Newsom was invited to the Vatican's 2024 Climate Summit. (Getty)
Newsom's reference was to a meeting the former president reportedly had at Mar-a-Lago with top oil excecutives, the New York Times reported earlier this month, citing two people who were present at the meeting.
The Vatican summit, which was spearheaded by Pope Francis in 2022 after he deemed climate change an "ecological sin" caused by human negligence, is organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. According to the academy, so-called climate resilience "requires both cross-disciplinary partnerships among researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs, as well as [transdisciplinary] partnerships between science and community leaders including faith leaders, NGOs, and the public."
"Mayors and Governors form the core of such transdisciplinary partnerships," it says on its website.
During Newsom's speech, he also hailed California as a leading example in its progressive green energy policies, as the state is investing more than $48 billion in climate change initiatives alone, including $10 billion in zero-emission vehicles and chargers.
"California has exceeded its nation-leading environmental goals," Newsom said. "We’re in the ‘how’ business, and it’s about the power of emulation, proving that we can run the fifth-largest economy, its economic engine, as we change the way we produce and consume energy."
However, the Golden State will fail to meet its climate change mandates unless it nearly triples its rate of reduction of greenhouse gases through 2030, an analysis in March by Beacon Economics, an L.A.-based economic research firm, reported. Newsom's office dismissed the report at the time to Fox News Digital and said "we'll continue proving everybody wrong."
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Pope Francis told an interviewer recently that conservative critics have a "suicidal attitude" with their resistance to change within the Catholic Church. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)
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Francis was asked about his controversial comments about LGBTQ individuals and the Vatican's endorsement of blessings for individuals in same-sex relationships during the "60 Minutes" interview that aired on Sunday. Host Norah O'Donnell asked him if he had a message for conservative bishops in the U.S. who've criticized his "efforts to revisit teachings and traditions" in the church.
"You used an adjective, 'conservative.' That is, conservative is one who clings to something and does not want to see beyond that," Francis said. "It is a suicidal attitude. Because one thing is to take tradition into account, to consider situations from the past, but quite another is to be closed up inside a dogmatic box."
Fox News Digital's Kristine Parks contributed to this report.
Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
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