L-Isqfijiet tal-Ingilterra u Wales ikomplu jisħqu dwar il-ħarsien tal-ħolqien
25/08/2019-
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference issues a statement calling for the development of a “Christian spirituality of ecology” which begins in personal and family life.
In the opening lines of his encyclical on the environment, Laudato sì, Pope Francis describes the earth as “burdened and laid waste, among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor”.
Urgency
In their statement, the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales return to that encyclical as they highlight the urgency of the current environmental crisis. The earth, they write, “cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our own irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her.”
The Bishops go on to outline the extent of the ecological crisis, and to suggest a Catholic response…