We are called to care for the environment (especially air, water, land and the minerals, plants and animals that make up this wonderful planet - and whatever lies beyond!) As people of faith, we believe that the entire universe exists as a result of God’s wise and loving design. Thank God it has been restored by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and is now an essential element of Christian hope. That original paradise was lost - temporarily - as a consequence of sin.
They were to be the guardians of the earthly paradise that God created out of sheer love and goodness for our benefit. God also commanded that our first parents “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth” (Gn 9:1). The stewardship responsibility given to our first parents was to “name” everything, which means to understand and give expression to its nature and purpose (cf. In publishing his encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” Pope Francis joined recent popes and bishops in calling attention to care for our environment.Īll creation comes from God and is good - the material world, all plants and animals, and especially the first man and woman who are created in His divine image.
The Church’s concern stems from our recognition that all creation is God’s gift to humankind - to be cherished, nurtured, developed and used wisely for the good of all and with profound respect for “the beauty of the created world.” Concern for the environment has been expressed by all recent popes and has been explicitly included in the Church’s social teaching because abuse of our natural resources has become so serious in modern times.
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