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In his historic encyclical of 2015, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, Pope Francis firmly established ecological concerns as central to the agenda of Catholic Social Teaching. Along with a spiritual framework on care for creation, he outlined issues of climate change, biodiversity, the peril facing our oceans, access to fresh water, and sustainable food, and offered a comprehensive guide to integral ecology.   Eight years later comes a shorter but even more urgent call in the form of this new apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum, which focuses specifically on the “climate crisis” of our time. Disappointed that not enough has been done in...

Dear Friends,  In Laudato Si’, his historic encyclical of 2015, Pope Francis firmly established care for creation  as central to the agenda of Catholic Social Teaching. Now, eight years later, he has issued a shorter but even more urgent call to address the “climate crisis” of our time: Laudate Deum. Disappointed at the lack of progress in the intervening years, Francis addresses the irreversible effects of increasing global temperatures, the decrease in ice sheets, and other signs of the times. He critiques the “technocratic paradigm,” the ongoing addiction to a fossil-fuel economy, and the “weaknesses of international politics,” while leveling...

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