Full Title: Encyclical Letter Laudato Si' of the Holy Father Francis on Care for Our Common Home
Author(s): Pope Francis
Publisher(s): The Vatican
Publication Date: June 1, 2015
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“Praised be ‘me’ Lord,” sang St. Francis of Assisi. In this beautiful song reminded us that our common home is also like a sister, with whom we share the existence, and as a beautiful mother that welcomes us in his arms: “Praised be ‘me’ Lord, through Sister Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and produces various fruits with colored flowers and herbs. ” [1]
2. This protest sister to the evil that we cause, due to irresponsible use and abuse of the goods that God has placed in her. We grew up thinking we were its owners and rulers, allowed to plunder it. The violence that exists in the human heart wounded by sin is also manifested in the symptoms of the disease that we experience in soil, water, air and in living things. For this, among the most abandoned poor and abused,