Jesuit Father Michael Czerny, an official at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, is pictured at his office in Rome Dec. 6. Father Czerny does not expect Pope Francis to write an encyclical on poverty but said the pope has “been talking about an ecological encyclical.” (CNS photo/Paul Haring) (Dec. 11, 2013) See POPE-ENCYCLICAL and VATICAN LETTER Dec. 11, 2013.