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Laudato Si'

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Laudato Si', authored by Pope Francis, is the first papal encyclical to focus on care for creation as a central moral obligation. This groundbreaking letter brings together the call to protect the environment and to defend the “least of these” through an integral ecology that challenges all of us to action.

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People stand in floodwater in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017.
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Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and Latino Priorities

Pope Francis declared nine years ago in his powerful encyclical Laudato Si’ that “a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” (LS 49). It is an idea…

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Laudato Sí After Five Years

May 29, 2020

Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes