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2017, Harvard Kennedy School Review
Pope Francis transformed the climate change debate in 2015 by publishing his groundbreaking encyclical Laudato Si’, being widely credited by analysts and heads of state for raising the level of ambition of the Paris Climate Agreement by framing the ecological crisis in moral terms. This paper analyzes Pope Francis's contribution to highlight both the urgency and the injustice of the climate crisis. In doing so, the essay highlights the unique opportunity of world religions to enhance climate policy by stressing the moral imperative to take action.
Laudato Sí is an important and timely teaching document with great relevance for the peoples of Asia. Pastoral agents in the local churches of Asia need to understand this teaching in order to play their part in making it known, and interpreting its implications for local faith communities. This paper provides hermeneutic keys to assist pastoral workers to understand the encyclical and its place within the corpus of Catholic Social Teaching. It examines the context in which the encyclical was issued, its purpose and audience, the teaching authority that it holds, its methodology and main concerns, and its contribution to the body of CST. These reflections are intended to better equip pastoral workers in Asia to engage more deeply with the meaning and implications of the encyclical for the thinking and action of local churches. Through such engagement, they may be able to make contextualized contributions to the ongoing development of the local and universal social teachings.
Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae
Dall’Oglio, Cecilia. 2020. “Ecological Initiatives of the Global Catholic Climate Movement”. Studia Ecologiae Et Bioethicae 18 (1), 61-72. https://doi.org/10.21697/seb.2020.1.07This paper presents the structure and main aims of Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM): an international organization serving Catholics all over the world to promote ecological values. It points to a close connection between teaching of the Catholic Church and care about the creation. The efforts to prevent effects of climate changes are indicated as an important mission for believers, in accordance with Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato si'. There are three major dimensions describing how to bring Pope's teaching to life: spiritual dimension, lifestyle dimension and public policy dimension. In this article one can find many examples of good practices, which have been in the process of being realized since the GCCM was set up in 2015. The main content is followed by the detailed calendar, which shows the crucial achievements of GCCM.
Human Ecology Review
Reflections, Analysis, and Significance for Human Ecology of Pope Francis’s Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home2017 •
Paper for the seminar "Laudato Si' and the Path to COP22", held at the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences on 28 September 2016, focusing on those aspects of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ most relevant to the Catholic Church’s engagement in the COP22 summit and beyond.
Annual Review of Environment & Resources
Religion and Climate Change2018 •
Understanding the cultural dimensions of climate change requires understanding its religious aspects. Insofar as climate change is entangled with humans, it is also entangled with all the ways in which religion attends human ways of being. Scholarship on the connections between religion and climate change includes social science research into how religious identity figures in attitudes toward climate change, confessional and constructive engagements of religious thought with climate change from various communities and traditions, historical and anthropological analyses of how climate affects religion and religion interprets climate, and theories by which climate change may itself be interpreted as a religious event. Responses to climate change by indigenous peoples challenge the categories of religion and of climate change in ways that illuminate reflexive stresses between the two cultural concepts. [pre-publication proofs; cite from the final paper at Annual Reviews]
Islamochristiana
Sustainability and Interreligious Dialogue2017 •
SUMMARY: In the wake of the promulgation of Laudato si' (LS), Pope Francis' 2015 landmark encyclical on our relationship with the natural world, there has been a renewed interest in the role religions and Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) can play in fostering sustainability, as well as in the possibilities and limits of interreligious dialogue related to one of the central objectives of our time: the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined in the UN Agenda 2030 and the Paris Climate Accord. This article claims that a growing interreligious discursive convergence on ecology has its roots in the acknowledgment of a set of ecological meta-problems, rather than in a common, single meta-narrative. The emergence of distinctive inter-denominational and inter-religious discourses is increasingly shaping a shared, pluralistic narrative grounded in social justice, care for creation and intergenerational solidarity. Moreover, religions and FBOs are already bringing an integral, holistic perspective to the socio-environmental debate, filling in an interstitial place in the sustainability arena, while performing four key functions: bridging, binding, deepening and sustaining. The medium and long-term impact of the recent interreligious discursive convergence in catalyzing action and bringing behavioral change on ecological matters still lacks, however, a robust, evidence-based analysis.
"We know that all creation is groaning in labor pains even until now; and not only that … we also groan within ourselves as we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies" (Romans 8:22-23). Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: In 1988, we issued a groundbreaking Pastoral Letter on Ecology entitled, "What is Happening to Our Beautiful Land?" In its opening paragraph, we noted,-Our small farmers tell us that their fields are less productive and are becoming sterile. Our fishermen are finding it increasingly difficult to catch fish. Our lands, forests and rivers cry out that they are being eroded, denuded and polluted. As bishops we have tried to listen and respond to their cry. There is an urgency about this issue which calls for widespread education and immediate action..."
William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review
Pope Francis, Laudato Si', and U.S. Environmentalism2017 •
All Creation is Connected: Laudato si' Background, Reception, and Commentary
Converting to and Nurturing Ecological Consciousness--Individually, Collectively, Actively2018 •
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
The religious vision of nature in the light of Laudato Si’: An interreligious reading between Islam and Christianity2020 •
Journal of Religious Ethics
The Mysterious Silence Of Mother Earth in Laudato Si'2018 •
All Creation is Connected: Laudato si' Background, Reception, and Commentary
Converting to and Nourishing Ecological Consciousness--Individually and Collectively2018 •
Journal of Catholic Social Thought
Contextualizing Laudato Si’ through People’s Organization Engagement: A Kalawakan Experience2019 •
Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa
A common conception of justice underlies Pacific churches’ message on climate changeAssociation for the Promotion of African Studies
AFRICAN ECO-THEOLOGY: MEANING, FORMS AND EXPRESSIONS2021 •
VOICES of the Third World
VOICES-2016-2, Laudato Si' and Ecology2017 •
Church, Communication and Culture
Postsecular rhetoric of the Pope: a discourse analysis of Pope Francis’ TED TalksThe Other Journal: An Intersection of Theology & Culture
Intentional Communities in Our Common Home: Building Interfaith Cultures of Encounter in a New Appalachia (print version - uncorrected proof)2018 •
Earth System Dynamics 9: 1-15
On deeper human dimensions in Earth system analysis and modelling2018 •
Journal of Jesuit Studies
The Peace Advocacy of Pope Francis: Jesuit PerspectivesMiddle Eastern Journal of Research in Education and Social Sciences
The Islamic Declaration on Global climate change; An Ideological Discourse AnalysisCare for the World: Laudato Si' and Catholic Social Thought in an Era of Climate Crisis (ed. Frank Pasquale), Cambridge University Press
Alter-Ecologies: Envisioning Papal & Ecomodernist Nuclear Energy Policy Futures (2019)2019 •