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CBCP: Pope Francis takes on indifference to the environment
Pope Francis has addressed humanity's indifference to environmental concerns in his second encyclical, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said Wednesday.
The Catholic leadership in the country, thus, challenged the Filipino faithful to step up the fight against environmental degradation.
“How do we respond as human persons, and as sons and daughters of God? What should all of this mean for us? If, as scientists seem to allege, we are to blame to a large extent for ruining that delicate balance of our ecology, then how do we make up?” CBCP president Archbishop Socrates Villegas said in a pastoral statement.
Villegas said that while science grants humanity the various technologies to cope with climate change, scientists cannot cure indifference towards environmental and ecological concerns.
“The roots of our indifference to environmental and ecological concerns—which, in the ultimate analysis, are concerns for the good of all—and the sinful dispositions in all of us that make us contributors to the depredation of a world entrusted to our stewardship, these are what scientists cannot teach us. All this, the Encyclical promises to address,” he said.
But Villegas said the papal encyclical will “remain nothing more than ink on paper until we all allow ourselves to be won over by St. Francis' exaltation of all of created reality.”
Pope Francis is scheduled to release his second encyclical said to be called "Laudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care of Our Common Home" Thursday, June 18, the Vatican said.
Italian magazine l'Espresso however leaked a draft of the 192-page encyclical four days early.
A Reuters report said Pope Francis spoke of "the urgent challenge to protect our common home" and called for sustainable development.
The Pope, according to Reuters' sources, called for the reduction in carbon emissions and emphasized the need to craft policies on renewable energy. The report said Pope Francis also cautioned on the long-term effects of burning fossil fuel.
“We are still suffering from the sweltering heat of this summer, and hardly anyone will contest the claim that this was among the hottest of summers we have ever gone through. We are also warned about more erratic weather systems including more violent typhoons,” Villegas said.
CBCP News meanwhile has launched a Facebook page in “celebration” of Pope Francis' second encyclical. -Kathrina Charmaine Alvarez/NB, GMA News
The Catholic leadership in the country, thus, challenged the Filipino faithful to step up the fight against environmental degradation.
“How do we respond as human persons, and as sons and daughters of God? What should all of this mean for us? If, as scientists seem to allege, we are to blame to a large extent for ruining that delicate balance of our ecology, then how do we make up?” CBCP president Archbishop Socrates Villegas said in a pastoral statement.
Villegas said that while science grants humanity the various technologies to cope with climate change, scientists cannot cure indifference towards environmental and ecological concerns.
“The roots of our indifference to environmental and ecological concerns—which, in the ultimate analysis, are concerns for the good of all—and the sinful dispositions in all of us that make us contributors to the depredation of a world entrusted to our stewardship, these are what scientists cannot teach us. All this, the Encyclical promises to address,” he said.
But Villegas said the papal encyclical will “remain nothing more than ink on paper until we all allow ourselves to be won over by St. Francis' exaltation of all of created reality.”
Pope Francis is scheduled to release his second encyclical said to be called "Laudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care of Our Common Home" Thursday, June 18, the Vatican said.
Italian magazine l'Espresso however leaked a draft of the 192-page encyclical four days early.
A Reuters report said Pope Francis spoke of "the urgent challenge to protect our common home" and called for sustainable development.
The Pope, according to Reuters' sources, called for the reduction in carbon emissions and emphasized the need to craft policies on renewable energy. The report said Pope Francis also cautioned on the long-term effects of burning fossil fuel.
“We are still suffering from the sweltering heat of this summer, and hardly anyone will contest the claim that this was among the hottest of summers we have ever gone through. We are also warned about more erratic weather systems including more violent typhoons,” Villegas said.
CBCP News meanwhile has launched a Facebook page in “celebration” of Pope Francis' second encyclical. -Kathrina Charmaine Alvarez/NB, GMA News
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