An urgent call to action. The New York Times
Contents
Introduction by Naomi Oreskes
Preface
1. What Is Happening to Our Common Home
2. The Gospel of Creation
3. The Human Roots of the Ecological Crisis
4. Integral Ecology
5. Lines of Approach and Action
6. Ecological Education and Spirituality
Notes
Pope Francis has been the Pope of the Catholic Church since March 13, 2013. Born in Buenos Aires in 1936, he was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1969. He became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. Devoted to rectifying social injustices and economic inequality, Pope Francis has said that he "would like to see a church that is poor and is for the poor."
Praise for the Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality
“An urgent call to action.”
—The New York Times
“This breathtaking amalgam of urgency and poetry mines the spirit
and appeals to the moral core... That a secular publisher, Melville
House, chose to print in its entirety the papal document...bespeaks
its relevance beyond the walls of the Roman Catholic Church."
—Chicago Tribune
“The most astonishing and perhaps the most ambitious papal document
of the past 100 years.”
—The Guardian
“A powerful, prophetic, and personal plea for governments,
religions, businesses and individuals to work together to address
climate change.”
—Time
“The pope’s clarion call adds an ethical dimension to a debate too
often bogged down in warring statistics and economic arguments . .
. His powerful message on climate change should have the skeptics
and deniers, who’ve stood in the way of meaningful action,
squirming in their seats and feeling the heat.”
—USA Today
“The letter isn’t just a manifesto for clergy and bishops, but
doubles as a call to action with scientific rational, written in
plain language and addressed to ‘every person living on this
planet.’”
—Chicago Tribune
“In his masterful grasp of the science behind climate change, the
pontiff unmasks himself as a policy wonk.”
—The Washington Post
“A bold act by the pope, the encyclical in many ways reflects a
movement that has been growing for decades.”
—Los Angeles Times
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