LOOKING AT REALITY IN A DIFFENT WAY

Pope Francis ended his encyclical with the following words:  “We do need to slow down and look at reality in a different way, to appropriate the positive and sustainable progress which has been made, but also to recover the values and the great goals swept away by our unrestrained delusions of grandeur.”  He warns throughout his letter of the unsustainable culture of consumption.  He calls for immediate changes in human behavior to fight global warming, which he says science has shown clearly is caused by us.  “We may well be leaving to coming generations debris, desolation and filth.  The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet’s capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only precipitate catastrophes”

We shall see if Catholic Republicans and other Christian leaders pay attention.