Pope sets the stage and others ponder whether or not they should walk on

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s translated bits of the draft of a major Vatican document on the environment seeped out Wednesday, figures from the Dalai Lama to presidential hopeful Jeb Bush were already debating whether and how to follow the pope’s call for humans to reframe their relationship with “our sister, Mother Earth.’ ”

Politicians, environmental activists and theologians across the spectrum were busy highlighting various aspects of the draft, which was leaked Monday to the anger of the Vatican. The official version of the document, called an encyclical, was to be made public 6 a.m. ET Thursday. The Vatican said that the draft was inaccurate in places.

Some environmentalists were thrilled by the draft’s dramatic framing of climate change as the moral issue of the day, one that reflects a human race blinded by consumerism and individualism, a Northern Hemisphere divorced from its other, needier half.

Read Michelle Boorstein and Chris Mooney’s Washington Post story - “On the eve of its release, Pope Francis’s encyclical on climate change is already stirringcontroversy”.