Laudato Si’ – A Canadian Response
Laudato Si’ – A Canadian Response
Laudato Si’ was an encyclical letter written by Pope Francis in 2015 to all the people of the world to bring to our attention to the fact that the earth “cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her.” (LS2) In 2017, the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace with the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops prepared Living Out Laudato Si: A Commentary and Practical Resource for Canadian Catholics in response to this encyclical. Should you be interested in reading this reflection it can be found at the following link: https://www.cccb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Living_Out_Laudato_Si_En.pdf.
Also available is the video, Laudato Si’, A Canadian Response found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bti86O_Tw5A.
The encyclical itself is found on the Vatican website at:
We now have available a follow-up video to that 2015 video, found at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Cd1nkvr3c. “This film revisits the 2015 Papal Encyclical Laudato Si’ with an update on the global climate crisis as well as an exploration of the impact of the loss of biodiversity and the emergence of COVID-19. Following the three-step: Seeing, Judging, Acting methodology from Catholic Social Teaching, the film explores the issues of Water, Global Warming and Loss of Biodiversity with Fr. Joshtrom Kureethadam, a cosmologist in Rome, Leonardo Boff, well known Liberation Theologian in Brazil and Canadian activists like Maude Barlow and Catherine Abreu. The film is designed as an educational primer for parishes, high school and university programs concerned with the Global Climate Crisis.”