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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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.
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Pope St. John Paul II established the need to maintain a vibrant and critical interaction among economics, culture, and politics, emphasizing that culture is the most important: “All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.”
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“[T]hose oppressed by poverty are the object of a preferential love on the part of the Church which, since her origin…has not ceased to work for their relief, defense, and liberation” (CCC, 2448)
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It's misunderstood primarily because of the inability to differentiate between the “twofold character of ownership”: (Pope Pius XI) As Pope Leo XIII made clear: “The right of property is distinct from its use.”
