World Environment Day, June 5, 2023: Caring for the environment is a moral issue

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World Environment Day, June 5, 2023: Caring for the environment is a moral issue
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It is because we value our relationship with God and God’s creation that climate change is for us Catholics a profoundly spiritual, ethical, and moral issue. Climate change is not about economic theory or a political platform; it is most certainly not about partisan politics or concessions to special interest groups on either side of the argument.

These resources do not belong exclusively to us, they belong to God, and therefore, are to be treated with reverence and used prudently. As children of God and brother and sister to each other, we need to be more prudent in the use of God’s resources so that we can share the gifts of God’s creation more fully with the poor and the marginalised.

In looking at the workings of nature, it is hard to miss how interconnected all of creation is. And if we desire to love and care for all of humanity, we must love and care for all of creation as well. That is a concept that St John Paul II talked about in his statement for the World Day of Peace in 1990.

And St John Paul II was not the only person to consider respect for the environment to be a part of our commitment as a pro-life Church. In his encyclical Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI wrote:

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