Sentences with phrase «recent encyclical»

Pope Francis, in his recent encyclical, clearly articulated that climate change is a moral issue, and one of the principal challenges facing humanity.

Yesterday, Georgia Interfaith Power & Light and Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign hosted a press conference in response to the Pope's recent Encyclical on Climate Change.

The commentary believes the Vatican is out of place with Its recent encyclical on climate science, reminding readers that the Vatican hardly has a stellar record when it comes -LSB-...]

Alexander Wendt at www.achgut.com/ch, a policy - critical site run by leading German publicists, wrote how Hans - Joachim Schellnhuber recently boasted before journalists of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) how he got Pope Francis to swing over to climate alarmism in His most recent encyclical «Laudato Si».

If climate change, as the Pope's recent encyclical claims, is a profound global justice, ethical, and moral problem, this paper identifies questions that should be asked of opponents of climate change policies to expose the ethical problems with their positions.

Pope Francis» recent encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si, has many virtues compared with most secular arguments on the same topic.

She quotes his recent encyclical: «Many things have to change course, but it is we human beings above all who need to change.

Francis looks again to John XXIII in Evangelii gaudium, and his explicit support for the Lérinian legacy stretches back to his pre-papal writings (e.g., On Heaven and Earth), continuing in the same Lérinian vein in a later interview (A Big Heart Open to God), prominently in Evangelii gaudium, up until his most recent encyclical, Laudato Si», and reasserted in this address to the Congress.

There is ground for optimism, however, in Pope John Paul II's invitation in his recent Encyclical Ut unum sint to «church leaders and their theologians to engage with me in a patient a fraternal dialogue on this subject in which, leaving useless controversies behind, we could listen to one another, keeping before us only the will of Christ for his church» (96).

As is evident in John Paul's recent encyclical, Veritatis Splendor, the Catholic Church is well aware that it must more persuasively present its moral teaching, both to its own people and to the world.

Sister Thomas More Stepnowski explores this in the light of Pope Francis» recent encyclical.

A reader of his article might be quite surprised to learn that Leo XIII declared as early as 1891 that «the public administration must... provide for the welfare and comfort of the working classes»; or that so recent an encyclical as Centesimus Annus pronounced that «the mass of the poor [who] have no resources of their own to fall back on... must chiefly depend on the assistance of the State,» and that «wage - earners... should be specially cared for and protected by the Government.»

As John Paul II contends in his most recent encyclical, Evangelium Vitae, we must not «idolize» democracy by «democratizing» the truth on which democracy depends.

And John Paul II has reaffirmed the declaration in his recent encyclical Solicitudo Rei Socialis.

This is the third essay in a week - long symposium on the pope's recent encyclical.

It will address Pope Francis» recent encyclical about the environment, as well as various upcoming United Nations meetings in France, Ethiopia and the US in 2015 regarding initiatives about climate change and sustainable development.

Not exact matches

He was among the outside advisors to Pope John Paul II on the encyclical Centesimus Annus and in recent years has worked closely with the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on the issues of sustainable development.

There is an interesting parallel to be drawn between Benedict's recent address and Paul VI's encyclical letter Humanae Vitae.

Through encyclicals and the statements of recent synods, human rights have become the centerpiece of Roman Catholic social teachings all over the world.

CT frequently covers Pope Francis, including examining the recent release of his encyclical, how many of his fans disagree with him on global warming, and the theology behind his warnings on climate change.

That impulse is articulated with repeated authoritative statements of great theological and moral sophistication, the most recent instance being John Paul II's encyclical (Centesimus Annus) on the free society.

Yet «work, as a human issue, is at the very center of the «social question,»» asserts the recent papal encyclical Laborem Exercens (On Performing Work) issued by John Paul II.

Encyclicals, papal letters circulated throughout the whole of the Catholic Church, have in more recent years been intended to reach beyond the Church to all people of goodwill.

In his recent book - length encyclical on the subject, Pope Francis seeks to link three seemingly unrelated problems: environmental degradation, poverty and spiritual emptiness.

Calvin Beisner, the founder of the Cornwall Alliance and one of the main people behind the attack on Pope Francis's anticipated climate and sustainability - focused encyclical, states in a recent video that he is an authority on the issued of climate change because he has «read some 50 books... on the science of climate change.»