On Care For Our Common Home, Laudato Si: The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment

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On Care For Our Common Home, Laudato Si: The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment

Name: On Care For Our Common Home, Laudato Si: The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment
Brand: Orbis Books
SKU: 981737
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Author: Pope Francis
ISBN: 9781626981737

By: Pope Francis, Sean McDonagh

Orbis Books / 2016 / Paperback

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One of the foremost Catholic proponents of ecological awareness provides an overview of the development of Catholic teaching on the environment up to the present, and offers a commentary on the Encyclical "Laudato Si" by Pope Francis, the full text of which appears in this volume.

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Title: On Care For Our Common Home, Laudato Si: The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment
By: Pope Francis, Sean McDonagh
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Vendor: Orbis Books
Publication Date: 2016

Dimensions: 8.25 X 5.38 (inches)
Weight: 12 ounces
ISBN: 1626981736
ISBN-13: 9781626981737
Stock No: WW981737

Publisher's Description

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Laudato Si, Pope Francis historic encyclical on the environment, was issued in 2015. As the first encyclical devoted entirely to the environment and related social justice issues, it represented a watershed in the church's engagement with such urgent challenges as climate change, environmental degradation, and the fate of the poor. This volume joins the full text of Laudato Si with reflections by Sean McDonagh, one of the foremost Catholic proponents of ecological awareness. Aside from reviewing the history of Catholic teaching and the environment, he elaborates on several of the specific themes in the encyclical climate change, biodiversity, water scarcity, the threats to the ocean, and the crisis of food. He concludes with prescriptions about what must be done to turn the popes vision into a program of effective action. Each of us has a role to play. As Pope Francis observes, All it takes is one good person to restore hope.

Author Bio

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Sean McDonagh, SSC, an Irish Columbian priest, is well known around the world as an eco-theologian who works to raise awareness of the connections between justice and peace issues, environmental sustainability, and faith. His books include Climate Change: The Challenge to All of Us, Greening the Christian Millennium, Care for the Earth, and Dying for Water.

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"This exceptionally vivid, insightful, accessible, and authoritative explication and analysis of Laudato Si by Fr. Sean McDonagh is absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in this encyclical of modern Catholic social teaching. Scholars, practitioners, journalists and students will benefit profoundly from the pairing of the detailed introduction of Fr.McDonagh with the encyclical text. In short, this is a stupendous volume." --Christiana Z. Peppard, Fordham University