According to an article on The Guardian, Pope Francis has taken a stance on climate change and will announce later this week that people around the world need to take responsibility for reversing this problem or there could be "grave consequences for all of us."

The conservative Republican Party has taken issue with the notion that climate change exists and their stance has been quite clear: it does not. That also applies to presidential candidate Jeb Bush, in an apparent statement he made at a town hall event in New Hampshire, according to another article on The Guardian.

"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 cardinal or my pope," Bush said at the New Hampshire event. "I think religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting in the political realm."

Jose Graziano da Silva, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, wrote on The Huffington Post that Pope Francis will release the Catholic Church's official stance on the climate change issue with the impending release of the Papal Encyclical on Climate Change tomorrow, June 18.

But as The Guardian reports, Bush's remarks about the Pope and this issue is the same rhetoric of nearly all Republican Party members in office, just in different words.

Key members of the Republican Party have spoken out against the Pope's involvement in political matters, along with the coal and fossil fuel industry as well as the Heartland Institute. They have been trying to discredit the Pope's views on not only climate change, but his message on poverty as well.

Rick Santorum, another Republican presidential candidate and Catholic, spoke about the Pope at a Philadelphia radio station earlier this month and said, "The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we're good at, which is theology and morality."

The presidential candidates that are also Catholics but have yet to speak out on Pope Francis are Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal.