Ecology

“God… the Designer and Maker of the earth…not creating it to be a waste,

perceived concern, a fundamental but designing it to be lived in.” (Isaiah 45:15-25) reality, a marked preoccupation.

And these are precisely the days and times that man seems to be bent in profiting from the earth while destroying its well-being, appears to be covetous of the wealth therein contained while indifferent to its integrity.

Ecology – what i s t hat? Environment – who cares? Climate change – so what? It is such greed and nonchalance, such covetousness and indifference that in effect occasioned the recent issuance of nothing less than a Papal Encyclical on the “Care of Our Common Home.”

“Papal” because it is no less than Pope Francis himself who issued it. “Encyclical” because it is addressed to the world as a whole – considering that its content and spirit are worldwide not only in relevance but also in scope. Among many of its teachings and reminders, the following come to fore:

Many things have to change course, but it is the human beings themselves who need to change first in their value system in conjunction not only with their present but especially so in anticipation of their