Pope Francis has made the environment, natural and human, a hallmark of his papacy.
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The Top Environment Quotes from the Church
The Holy Fathers have consistently insisted that if we do not respect our human environment we will not respect the natural environment.
Top Nature Quotes from the Church
Pope Francis has made the environment, natural and human, a hallmark of his papacy. And he is not the first pope to stress good stewardship of our ‘common home’.
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Simply, but elegantly put: consumerism is a style of life directed towards “having” rather than “being”. It is a “web of false and superficial gratifications.” (Pope St. John Paul II)
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While alienation exists in different forms, “there is no worse form of alienation than to feel uprooted, belonging to no one.” (Pope Francis) What are two dangerous forms of alienation?
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Radical Secularism is driven by this skeptical relativism which basically holds that there is no such thing as an objective truth. There’s just what I believe, you believe, a group, a nation believes; nothing is objectively true.
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The human environment involves “the moral structure with which [man] has been endowed.” (Pope Francis)
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In his desire to have and to enjoy rather than to be and to grow, man consumes the resources of the earth and his own life in an excessive and disordered way.
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YES – there is a right to private property…AND – human nature can lead to the distortion of that right. The right to private property is subordinated to the right to common use, to the fact that goods are meant for everyone.
