{"id":308712,"date":"2023-10-18T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/laudate-deum-of-pope-francis\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:44:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:44:27","slug":"laudate-deum-of-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/laudate-deum-of-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Laudate Deum of Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eight years after the Encyclical \u201cLaudato Si,\u201d the Pontiff calls again in the Apostolic Exhortation \u201c<\/em>Laudate Deum<\/em><\/a>\u201d all people of good will to respond appropriately to the climate crisis.<\/em> \"\"<\/a>Still, very little has changed in the facts. The world \u201cis crumbling and perhaps approaching a breaking point.\u201d<\/em> [2]. Last week, it was reported by the European Union’s climate observatory (Copernicus) that \u201cSeptember was the warmest month ever\u201d (since 1850). Rising temperatures are certainly one of the most conspicuous symptoms of ongoing climate change. Last July, the world’s most authoritative journal in the field, \u201cNature,\u201d showed that the heat waves of summer 2022 caused nearly 63,000 deaths in Europe. Certainly, we should not fall into catastrophic considerations because the margins for changing course are still possible, but we must categorically reject all irrational and unscientific negations. After decisively responding to all the most common objections against the current climate crisis, the pontiff emphasizes: \u201cI feel compelled to make these clarifications, which may seem obvious, because of certain derogatory and unreasonable views that I find even within the Catholic Church<\/em>\u201d [14]. He distances himself from blaming the poor. \u201cHow can we forget that Africa, where more than half of the world’s poorest people live, is responsible for only a small fraction of the emissions accumulated throughout history?<\/em>\u201d [9]. Bergoglio addresses a call to each of us \u201cto accompany this path of reconciliation with the world that hosts us and to embellish it with our own contribution<\/em>\u201d [69]. Unfortunately, some effects of the climate crisis are already irreversible: Some species have \u201cstopped being our travelling companions and have become our victims<\/em>\u201d [15]. Yet, we cannot but \u201crecognize [\u2026] that human life is incomprehensible and unsustainable without other creatures\u201d<\/em> [67]. All of these cannot leave us indifferent. To enable change, we need to adjust both the way we \u201clook\u201d at others and nature and the way we exercise power to achieve a purpose. Even small individual steps are important: they may not lead to immediate, quantifiable success, but they can act as the blueprint for cultural change and \u201cset in motion large transformational processes that work from the depths of society.<\/em>\u201d [71]. Caring for every dimension of our planet is a collective challenge that requires a collective response. In recent years there have been many global efforts but with often disappointing results: broken promises and postponed goals. But \u201cif we have faith in the ability of humans to transcend their small interests and think big[\u2026], we cannot stop dreaming that COP28 will lead to a decisive acceleration of the energy transition, with effective and monitored commitments.<\/em>\u201d [54]. We also cannot give up this \u201cdream.\u201d\u00a0 It is a bet: to win all people of good will to work for a world worth living in. <\/p>\n

Stefania Papa<\/em><\/p>\n

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Eight years after the Encyclical \u201cLaudato Si,\u201d the Pontiff calls again in the Apostolic Exhortation \u201cLaudate Deum\u201d all people of good will to respond appropriately to the climate crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}