"Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, took “Laudato
Si’” on the road, presenting the “green encyclical” from Pope Francis to a packed audience during a special conference at the United Nations on June 30. Cardinal Turkson told his U.N. audience that “Laudato Si’” was not ultimately about climate change, “not just about the environment or treating it in isolation,” but a call to “prayerful contemplation of the natural and human ecology.”
Cardinal Turkson emphasized the pope’s belief that the problems of poverty and ecological degradation represent an integral global challenge. “Pope Francis recalls how inseparable is the bond between care for nature and justice for the poor.... When we speak of the environment what we really mean is a relationship between nature and the societies which live in it,” he said. “We are part of nature.”
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, welcoming Cardinal Turkson on behalf of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, expressed her personal gratitude for the “magnificent encyclical that His Holiness Pope Francis has blessed us with.” AmericaTheNationalCatholicReview
.....and all the world wondered after the beast.
Revelation 13:3
Cardinal Turkson emphasized the pope’s belief that the problems of poverty and ecological degradation represent an integral global challenge. “Pope Francis recalls how inseparable is the bond between care for nature and justice for the poor.... When we speak of the environment what we really mean is a relationship between nature and the societies which live in it,” he said. “We are part of nature.”
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, welcoming Cardinal Turkson on behalf of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, expressed her personal gratitude for the “magnificent encyclical that His Holiness Pope Francis has blessed us with.” AmericaTheNationalCatholicReview
.....and all the world wondered after the beast.
Revelation 13:3
