The Church is fighting back against Koch attacks on climate change. In an interview with Life Site News, Vatican Prelate Sánchez Sorondo called out self-serving fossil fuel tycoons for criticizing the Church’s efforts to combat the effects of climate change. 

In response to the pope’s call to action on Catholics and world leaders, the Kochs are using their dark money and conservative cronies to derail the Holy Father’s work to protect the environment. The Koch brothers will stop at nothing to protect their profits. Last month, the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think-tank that is backed by the Kochs, went to Rome to protest the Vatican’s action on climate change.

When the Vatican prelate was asked if he had any choice words for his detractors he said, “The Tea Party and all those whose income derives from oil have criticized us, but not my superiors, who instead authorized me, and several of them participated.”

The Vatican prelate stressed the moral urgency of climate change; he cited the disastrous effects this global crisis will wreak on the poorest populations. Koch cash and junk science won’t buy off the Church.

Check out Bridge Project’s 50-second Spanish language web ad, Los hermanos Koch se oponen al Papa por el cambio climático, about the Kochs’ attacks on the pope.