Climate change denial incompatible with Catholic Faith according to ecologists honouring Francis

On Monday 26 May, as part of the “Living with Care” series, the meeting entitled “Ecology: the legacy of Pope Francis” will be held, an opportunity to reflect on the Pontiff’s contribution to ecological thought. A month after the funeral of Pope Bergoglio, the influence that his teaching has had in recognizing the ecological crisis as an ethical and social challenge will be explored. The first Pontiff to have taken the name of Saint Francis of Assisi, patron saint of ecologists, has profoundly influenced the doctrine of the Church, placing respect for Creation at the center of his vision. Few have emphasized how, with Pope Francis, scientific data on the environmental crisis have become an integral part of the Church’s teaching, so much so that denying climate change is considered an attitude incompatible with faith. At the same time, Bergoglio has linked the environmental crisis to an unsustainable consumerist model, capable of generating waste both in natural resources and in people and other living beings. In his encyclical Laudato Si’, the Pope invited the richest part of the world to accept a certain degrowth to promote equitable growth in the most disadvantaged areas. Now the task of collecting and developing the legacy of Pope Francis falls to ecologists, believers and non-believers, inside and outside the Catholic Church, which to date still shows difficulties in deepening fundamental texts such as Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum. The speaker of the meeting will be Massimo De Maio, a long-time ecologist and visiting professor at the Pontifical Antonianum University in Rome. The appointment is for Monday, May 26, at 6:00 p.m., at the conference room of the Bibliomediateca comunale in via Roma, formerly Casa della Scuola D’Ovidio.

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