Laudato Si’ ignores real gains for the environment and the poor
Steven Mosher, LifeSite News
But having carefully read through Laudato Si, I am amazed at how pessimistic it is about the current state of the world and mankind, leaving out much of the great progress we have made in both care for the environment and the poor. Many of its strong claims about the dire state of the world don’t take into account positive change reported even in UN documents, which themselves tend to magnify environmental and other global problems as a fundraising ploy.
In Andes, Pope’s Ecological Line Faces Resistance
John Otis and Francis X. Rocca, The Wall Street Journal
Pope Francis faced a delicate mission in his first major speech on global warming on Tuesday: how to balance his advocacy for a new model of development with a poor region’s yearning to exploit its natural resources. The pontiff, on the first leg of a three-country Andean trip, emphasized in a speech the themes of his papal encyclical blaming global warming on human activity, saying mankind must take steps to reverse it.
True to his encyclical, Pope Francis’ travels for global change in a world of debt, drought
Anne-Gerard Flynn, MassLive
When the Vatican released Pope Francis encyclical letter, “Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home” on June 18, the 184-page document on capitalism, consumerism and human-induced climate change made global headlines. It combines, in a remarkably readable framework, information from a variety of disciplines to address what Francis calls “the present ecological crisis. In it, Francis seeks to advance a moral premise for sustainable development that exploits neither the Earth nor the humans that inhabit it.
Francis on climate change: ‘We can no longer turn our backs on reality’
Reuters
The pope has said he wanted the encyclical to influence a United Nations climate change summit in Paris in December and has now effectively taken his campaign to convince governments on the road. In September he takes his message to the United States and the United Nations.
Pope wraps Ecuador trip, renews call for action against climate change
Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press
Taking up the climate-change issue in Quito on Tuesday, Francis pressed the arguments made in his headline-grabbing encyclical earlier this month that the planet must not be exploited by the wealthy few for short-term profit at the expense of the poor.
Pope Francis and the IPCC: can technology mitigate climate change?
Jack Karsten and Darrell M. West, Brookings
There is much talk about the Pope’s recent encyclical on climate change and for good reason; yet again the Pope has proven capable of reconciling the Church with contentious contemporary issues. But another assessment, of greater length and detail, got much less attention from the public – the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change.
For Jerry Brown, climate change issue melds the spiritual and political
Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times
The pontiff cited a French priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, whose controversial writings on science and religion veered from church dogma and were forbidden for Brown to study when he was a young Jesuit seminary student.”
Cerabino: Hey Pope Francis, just try to live in Florida without AC
Frank Cerabino, Palm Beach Post
In case you haven’t heard, Il Papa’s got a brand new bag — climate change. I haven’t read all 40,500 words of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment. But I did read the part about air conditioning.
Iowans urged to use first vote to press on environmental problems
Anne Marie Cox, CatholicPhilly.com
Des Moines Bishop Richard E. Pates encouraged Catholic Iowans to take advantage of the state’s first-in-the-nation role in the presidential electoral process to keep in mind the issue of caring for the environment as shared by Pope Francis in his encyclical as they talk with those who seek to lead the United States.