Book review about Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality – Pope Francis
Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio or POPE FRANCIS was chosen to be the Pope of the Catholic Church since March 13, 2013. He is the first Latin American and the first Jesuit to lead the Roman Catholic Church—and the first non-European leader of the church in 1,200 years. He named himself Francis after St. Francis of Assisi. Born in Buenos Aires in 1936 to Italian immigrant parents, Pope Francis was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1969. He became a bishop in 1992 and the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998, and, in 2001, was appointed as a cardinal by Pope John Paul II. Devoted to rectifying social injustices and economic inequality, Pope Francis has said that he “would like …show more content…
This book addresses the scientific evidence of climate change and try to show that it resulted from long term unfair distribution of wealth. It is like an urgent call that tries to persuade all the people around the world to start taking actions in order to protect the planet. It powers individuals, religions, governments and businesses to work together to address climate change. While aiming at changing the issue of global warming from technical to moral, the book emphasizes the relation between how our actions that harm nature can cause harm to ourselves. It covers a variety of topics in life including deforestation, pollution, genetic modification, biodiversity loss, poverty and climate change.
Although the book is addressed to all the people around the world, sometimes it is directed toward the Christians especially catholic members of the Pope’s own church, but I think he intended also to orient for people from other religions. He used the words we and us in writing, therefore he was talking to the whole people, and he was persuading the wide range of audience to take action and save the planet. I think he thought of environmentalists, scientists, ecologists, officials, religious figures and general people as well and he hoped that his book will have a broad …show more content…
What I also found catchy is the establishment of a combination between science and faith in order to find solutions and explanations. It was also interesting how Pope Francis empowers the whole world to take action caused by a deep change from the people inside by using ethical considerations. Finally, I liked how he encouraged his readers to re-do some classical Christian practices that will heal the relation with God such as celebrating Sunday as a day of rest. The best quote in my opinion was “Human beings, while capable of the worst, are also capable of rising above themselves, choosing again what is good, and making a new start’’ because in this quote, Pope Francis combines his two main points of the encyclical. First that human beings are the cause of the problem, and second he tells that still they are able to develop solutions for the problems. I think by this quote he was trying to give hope and help to
Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio or POPE FRANCIS was chosen to be the Pope of the Catholic Church since March 13, 2013. He is the first Latin American and the first Jesuit to lead the Roman Catholic Church—and the first non-European leader of the church in 1,200 years. He named himself Francis after St. Francis of Assisi. Born in Buenos Aires in 1936 to Italian immigrant parents, Pope Francis was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1969. He became a bishop in 1992 and the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998, and, in 2001, was appointed as a cardinal by Pope John Paul II. Devoted to rectifying social injustices and economic inequality, Pope Francis has said that he “would like …show more content…
This book addresses the scientific evidence of climate change and try to show that it resulted from long term unfair distribution of wealth. It is like an urgent call that tries to persuade all the people around the world to start taking actions in order to protect the planet. It powers individuals, religions, governments and businesses to work together to address climate change. While aiming at changing the issue of global warming from technical to moral, the book emphasizes the relation between how our actions that harm nature can cause harm to ourselves. It covers a variety of topics in life including deforestation, pollution, genetic modification, biodiversity loss, poverty and climate change.
Although the book is addressed to all the people around the world, sometimes it is directed toward the Christians especially catholic members of the Pope’s own church, but I think he intended also to orient for people from other religions. He used the words we and us in writing, therefore he was talking to the whole people, and he was persuading the wide range of audience to take action and save the planet. I think he thought of environmentalists, scientists, ecologists, officials, religious figures and general people as well and he hoped that his book will have a broad …show more content…
What I also found catchy is the establishment of a combination between science and faith in order to find solutions and explanations. It was also interesting how Pope Francis empowers the whole world to take action caused by a deep change from the people inside by using ethical considerations. Finally, I liked how he encouraged his readers to re-do some classical Christian practices that will heal the relation with God such as celebrating Sunday as a day of rest. The best quote in my opinion was “Human beings, while capable of the worst, are also capable of rising above themselves, choosing again what is good, and making a new start’’ because in this quote, Pope Francis combines his two main points of the encyclical. First that human beings are the cause of the problem, and second he tells that still they are able to develop solutions for the problems. I think by this quote he was trying to give hope and help to