Pope to Declare that Nature Has Rights?

Commonweal, as I understand it, is a liberal Catholic publication. As Roman Catholics prepare to hear Pope Francis's statement on global warming, writer Robin Darling Young seems to hope that that he has something far more transformative in mind than urging a reduction of our carbon dioxide footprint. From "Does the Earth Have Rights?":

But he may go further now, and address our duty to other species and to the integrity of a creation that is losing many of those species. He may end up movin...