The Top Environment Quotes from the Church
by CAPP-USA
Our favorite human environment quotes from the Catholic Church.
Our Favorite Human Environment Quotes
The Holy Fathers have consistently insisted that if we do not respect our human environment we will not respect the natural environment.
The Human Environment
- “Creation is made to connect us with God and to each other; it is God’s social network.” (Pope Francis)
- “Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation.” (Pope St. Paul VI, 21)
- “An integral ecology is inseparable from the notion of the common good, a central and unifying principle of social ethics.” (Pope Francis, 156)
- “The deterioration of nature is in fact closely connected to the culture.” (Pope Benedict XVI, 51)
- “Our duties towards the environment are linked to our duties towards the human person.” (Synod of Bishops, XIII Ordinary General Assembly, 21)
- “[N]o peaceful society can afford to neglect either respect for life or the fact that there is an integrity to creation“. (Pope St. John Paul II, 1)
- “A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently needed. Future generations cannot be saddled with the cost of our use of common environmental resources.” (Pope Benedict XVI, 8)
- “Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace – pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity – but the human framework is no longer under man’s control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.” (Pope St. Paul VI, 21)
“[N]o peaceful society can afford to neglect either respect for life or the fact that there is an integrity to creation”. (Pope St. John Paul II, 1)
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