It is not surprising, then, that some political elites reacted badly to Laudato Si.
Former Florida governor, current Republican presidential candidate and Catholic convert Jeb Bush rejected the encyclical out of hand:
\”I hope I’m not going to get castigated for saying this by my priest back home, but I don’t get economic policy from my bishops or my cardinals or my pope,\” he said at a New Hampshire campaign event.
Rick Santorum, who ran for the presidency and lost in 2012 and some think might give it another go in 2016, told a Philadelphia radio station earlier this month that \”we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we’re good at, which is theology and morality.\”
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