Posted on 06/20/2020 6:03:13 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME – To mark the five-year anniversary of Pope Francis’s eco-encyclical, Laudato Si, the Vatican Thursday published a “users guide” for both parishes and public officials on how to implement the document, including such concrete measures as a balanced diet, carpooling to reduce energy consumption, recycling, and “drip-by-drip” irrigation to curb water waste.
The document also calls on legislators and governments to adopt eco-friendly policies, such as enshrining water as a “universal human right” and promoting international efforts to protect vulnerable ecosystems such as the Amazon and the Congo River Basin.
In keeping with Pope Francis’s view of “integral ecology,” the document also advocates for poverty relief, family-friendly policies to combat a “demographic winter,” prison and healthcare reform, and the protection of human life from conception to natural death.
The text also touts several steps within the Vatican City State to become more “green,” including discontinuing the use of toxic pesticides and recycling the water from the famed Vatican fountains.
Presented June 18 and titled, “On the Path to Caring for the Common Home: Five Years after Laudato Si,” the lengthy 220-page document – longer than Laudato Si itself – is an initiative of the Vatican’s department for Integral Human Development and is the product of an inter-departmental “Table” on integral ecology established after Laudato Si’s publication in June 2015.
Drafting also involved other Vatican institutions responsible for issues covered by the encyclical, as well as some bishops’ conferences and other Catholic entities.
In the introduction, the document says the world is currently being “shaken” by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, “which has caused tens of thousands of deaths and is changing our lifestyles by putting the economic systems of our societies at risk.”
“The health emergency, loneliness and isolation resulting from measures to combat contagion have suddenly placed us before.......
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A Narcissist Celebrating His Own Encyclical
ROME – To mark the five-year anniversary of Pope Francis’s eco-encyclical, Laudato Si, the Vatican Thursday published a “users guide” for both parishes and public officials on how to implement the document, including such concrete measures as a balanced diet, carpooling to reduce energy consumption, recycling, and “drip-by-drip” irrigation to curb water waste.
The document also calls on legislators and governments to adopt eco-friendly policies, such as enshrining water as a “universal human right” and promoting international efforts to protect vulnerable ecosystems such as the Amazon and the Congo River Basin.
Amphitrite, perhaps? Bergoglio's Pachamama won't like that.
Laudato sie, mi Signore
...always forget the mi Signore.
‘protection of human life from conception to natural death’
Well, there’s one good part.
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