The Vatican City (AP) – A few moments in the papacy, Pope Francis, better embodied his understanding of Climate The need to treat it more than the rain covered with the rain that celebrated in Takloban, the Philippines, in 2015.
One of the cheap yellow yellow coats that was delivered to the believers, Francis wears Francis Directly A type of severe storm that scientists blame for global warming, and they are increasingly outperforming low and low islands.
He had traveled to Takloban, on the island of Letty, to rest Survivors from one of the strongest registered tropical hurricanesHurricane Hayan. The storm of 2013 killed more than 7,300 people, and the village marina and explained about 5 million residents.
But as another storm approached Takloban after two years, Francis was forced to reduce his visit to the island.
“Many of you have lost everything. I don’t know what I told you,” Francis told the crowd in the Mudah Airport field in Takloban, where the wind was wandering in the candlesticks on the altar.
Francis, from Monday died in 88He was silent on that day due to the pain of the survivors and the destruction he saw. But he was running it after a few months when he published a historical encyclopedia, “praise”, which meets care for this planet as an urgent and existential moral concern.
The first environmental encyclopedia
Document, Written to inspire global negotiators In the 2015 Paris Climate Talks, the economy was accused of “structurally deviant”, which is driven by profit in the north north of the Earth and turning it into a “pile of filth”. He said that the poor peoples, the indigenous people and the inhabitants of the islands such as those in Takloban have suffered more than others, with the increasing drought, severe storms, the removal of forests and pollution.
He was The first environmental encyclopediaAnd he emphasized that the Argentine Jesuit, who studied in his youth, is a chemical, as a reliable voice in the environmental movement. The document was martyred later by presidents and scholars, the document inspired a global alliance based on faith to try to save God’s creation before it is too late.
“I think he understood from the beginning that there are three relationships that must be renewed: our relationship with God, our relationship with the created world and our relationship with our creatures,” said Bi Papal Austin Everig.
It was not always.
Transfer in 2007 in Brazil
Francis had a sharp educational curve on the environment, just as he did The clergy is sexual assaultAnd that he initially rejected it as exaggerated. He himself referred to a 2007 meeting of Latin American bishops and the Caribbean Sea region in Aparesida, Brazil, as the moment of his environmental health.
There, Jorge Mario Bergulio was elected at the time to formulate the final document of the conference, and was under pressure to include calls from the Brazilian bishops to highlight the Amazon ordeal.
Bergolio, Archbishop of Urban Buenos Aires, did not get what is going on all this uproar.
Francis wrote in the book “Let We Book” at first I was a little annoyed. “
By the end of the meeting, Bergoglio was converted and persuaded.
The final Aparecida document has allocated several environments for the environment: Multinational extract companies that looted the region’s resources have been condemned at the expense of the poor. I warned of the melting of the ice rivers and the effects of the lost biological diversity. I have been thrown on the planet’s cavity as an attack on God’s divine plan that violates the necessity of the Bible “to grow and care” of creation.
These same problems will later find a prominent position in “Awreded Be”, which took its name from the repeated first line of “Achqal creatures”, and it is one of the most well -known poetic songs of the loving name in nature, St. Francis Asisi.
It will also be highlighted in Senodes Amazon This was called by Francis in the Vatican in 2019, a meeting of the original bishops and peoples in particular to address how the Catholic Church can respond and should respond to the Amazon and its poor people.
“I think the most important contribution of the Pope is to insist on the moral aspect of the debate on climate justice,” said Giuseppe Onofrio, head of the Jahi Security Council, but they are paying the highest price.
How the environment affects all other diseases
In many ways, these same issues will come to determine a lot of the papal of Francis. It has come to look at the environmental issue as covering all other diseases that strike humanity in the twenty -first century: poverty, social and economic injustice, immigration and what he called “bitter culture” – a melting container of the problems that he was convinced can only be treated completely.
Some of the most powerful calls of Francis to protect or around the environment will come, which are celebrated on April 22.
“For some time now, we are more aware that nature deserves to be protected, even if the human interaction with the biological diversity of God must be concerned with the utmost respect,” Francis said in a video message released on Earth Day in 2021.
Cardinal Michael Cherny, Canadian Jesuit, who was later with the environmental file, said that the 2007 meeting in Brazil had a great impact on Francis.
“In Aparecida, listen to many different bishops who talk about what was deteriorating, but also what people were suffering, I think he really admired him.”
CZerny wrapped Francis’s vision of the “integrated environment”, which covers the environment, the Vatican response to the Covid-19 epidemic, its charitable union in Caritas, the call for migration, economic development, and its anti-nuclear campaign.
CZERNY said that the multi -faceted approach was intended, in establishing new thinking about the environment that transcends the politicized concept of “green” call to something larger and not strong: the relationship of humanity in God and creation.
“Everything is connected,” Francis loved to say.
A legacy of Pope Paul VI
In no case, the first Pope embraced the environmental issue. According to the book “The Popes and the Environment”, Pope Paul VI was the first inch to refer to an “environmental catastrophe” in a 1970 speech to the United Nations agency.
Saint John Paul II greatly ignored the environment, although he wrote the first real ecological statement: his message on peace day of 1990, which linked the consumer lifestyle to environmental decomposition.
Pope Benedict XVI was known as the “Green Pope”, primarily for the installation of solar panels on the Vatican Hall and the start of a campaign that sowed trees to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions in the Vatican city.
Francis released an update to “Al -Athma” in 2023, before the United Nations Climate Conference in Dubai. Although the update was compatible with the original text, it was more clear and showed that Francis became more urgent in his warning.
He has become more willing to direct fingers to the largest greenhouse gases in the world, especially the United States, and called that, including the Church, who denied the human causes of global warming.
“He showed that he had an understanding of what was happening in the world, and he saw the world from a point of view, as he was as he used to say, from the parties, from the margins,” Eviri said, the biography of the Pope. “Bring the margins to the center.”
