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The Vatican invited Gov. Gavin Newsom to present remarks astatine its yearly ambiance alteration acme successful mid-May, contempt nan California Democrat's societal progressive way grounds that includes championing transgender surgeries for minors and starring a nationwide pro-abortion advertisement campaign.
A spokesperson for Newsom's agency told Fox News Digital connected Tuesday nan politician will recreation to nan Vatican from May 15 to May 17.
"While there, he will make remarks astatine nan Summit and beforehand subnational ambiance activity pinch a region successful Italy," nan spokesperson said.
Additional specifications astir nan governor's schedule while successful Rome will beryllium disposable successful nan coming weeks, nan spokesperson added. Newsom said successful a connection that this twelvemonth "holds unprecedented value for populist and nan climate, 2 intertwined issues which will specify our future."
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Newsom has been invited to nan 2024 Vatican Climate Summit. (Getty Images/Illustration)
"With half nan world's organization poised to elite their leaders amidst a backdrop of escalating governmental extremism, and world temperatures hurtling towards alarming caller heights, nan stakes could not beryllium higher," Newsom wrote. "There is nary greater authority than civilized authority – and nan Pope’s activity connected nan ambiance situation inspires america each to push further and faster. I’m humbled to spell to nan Vatican to subordinate nan Pope successful his telephone for ambiance action."
Newsom, who is Catholic, has touted progressive policies – often astatine likelihood pinch nan Catholic Church's dogma – successful his authorities since he assumed agency successful 2019.
The Vatican states that "human life must beryllium respected and protected perfectly from nan infinitesimal of conception," but Newsom has precocious launched a pro-abortion run targeting states that person voted to restrict abortion access.
This month, Newsom released an advertisement targeting Republican lawmakers successful Alabama who are fighting against a measure that would let women to recreation retired of authorities to activity abortions. He besides announced that lawmakers will present authorities that would licence Arizona abortionists to recreation to California to behaviour abortions for Arizonans aft nan neighboring authorities upheld a near-total abortion prohibition successful nan Supreme Court successful April.
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Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom is to be nan Vatican Climate Summit successful mid-May. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/File)
The wide politician besides made California nan first "sanctuary state" successful 2022 for transgender children from much restrictive states seeking sex-change surgeries. Meanwhile, nan Vatican besides formally reaffirmed and expanded connected nan Catholic Church's school regarding gender mentation – which it holds arsenic an inadmissible ideology – asserting that attempts to change an individual's immutable gender are yet misguided attempts to play God.
However, same-sex couples tin now beryllium blessed by Catholic priests, pursuing general support by nan pontiff successful December. The archive says that "people seeking God's emotion and mercy shouldn't beryllium taxable to ‘an exhaustive civilized study to person it.'" Meanwhile, the church stands patient successful its stance that matrimony is simply a lifelong sacrament betwixt a man and a woman, that blessings should not beryllium fixed astatine nan aforesaid clip arsenic a civilian union, utilizing group rituals aliases moreover pinch different actions aliases clothing related to weddings.
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Pope Francis launched nan ambiance acme successful 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino/File)
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The summit, which was spearheaded by Pope Francis successful 2022 aft he deemed ambiance alteration an "ecological sin" caused by quality negligence, is organized by nan Pontifical Academy of Sciences. According to nan academy, alleged ambiance resilience "requires some cross-disciplinary partnerships among researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs, arsenic good arsenic [transdisciplinary] partnerships betwixt subject and organization leaders including religion leaders, NGOs, and nan public."
"Mayors and Governors shape nan halfway of specified transdisciplinary partnerships," it says connected its website.
The Vatican did not respond to Fox News Digital's aggregate requests for remark by property deadline.
Fox News' Pilar Arias and Timothy H.J. Nerozzi contributed to this report.
Jamie Joseph is simply a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital sum of nan Senate.
