LaudatoSi

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Laudato si' (Medieval Central Italian for "Praise be to you") is the second encyclical of Pope Francis. The encyclical has the subtitle "On Care For Our Common Home". In it, the Pope critiques consumerism and irresponsible development, laments environmental degradation and global warming, and calls all people of the world to take "swift and unified global action". The encyclical, dated May 24, 2015, was officially published at noon on June 18, 2015 accompanied by a news conference. The Vatican released the document in Italian, German, English, Spanish, French, Polish, Portuguese and Arabic alongside the original Latin. - [|Wikipedia]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudato_si%27

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[|Holy See calls for ‘intergenerational solidarity’ in climate change efforts] Addressing world leaders at a United Nations (UN) conference in New York exploring the connection between climate change and the organisation’s ambitious universal development agenda - known as the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ - the Holy See’s Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer to the UN said that his delegation would like to “underline” the responsibility of all present to “those who come after us.” “As Pope Francis affirms, 'intergenerational solidarity is not optional, but rather a basic question of justice, since the world we have received also belongs to those who will follow us'”, said Archbishop Bernardito Auza citing Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si.’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/24/pope-francis-presents-trump-with-a-politically-loaded-gift-his-encyclical-on-climate-change

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