"More than fifty years ago, with the world teetering on the brink of nuclear crisis, Pope Saint John XXIII wrote an Encyclical which not only rejected war but offered a proposal for peace. He addressed his message Pacem in Terris to the entire “Catholic world” and indeed “to all men and women of good will”. Now, faced as we are with global environmental deterioration, I wish to address every person living on this planet. "
http://w2.vatican.va/content/frances...audato-si.html
Let the speculation as to what it might say end. We now have an actual text to work with.
I don't mind if y'all link to articles or commentaries on it, whether they praise or condemn. If you do, though, I would respectfully ask that you make sure you've read, in addition to the excerpt quoted in said commentary, the surrounding paragraphs. The Pope has been taken out of context frequently enough already.
http://w2.vatican.va/content/frances...audato-si.html
Let the speculation as to what it might say end. We now have an actual text to work with.
I don't mind if y'all link to articles or commentaries on it, whether they praise or condemn. If you do, though, I would respectfully ask that you make sure you've read, in addition to the excerpt quoted in said commentary, the surrounding paragraphs. The Pope has been taken out of context frequently enough already.
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