10 years of Laudato Si’

A decade on from the publication of Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical Laudato Si’, we are reminded of the relevance of the Pope’s message and the ongoing urgency of the environmental crisis.

Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand and the Nathaniel Centre for Bioethics – Te Kupenga have released a powerful reflection. They highlight Pope Francis’ invitation to an “integral ecology” which recognises “a relationship existing between nature and the society which lives in it”.

The environmental and social crisis we find ourselves in “requires a cooperative, communal and intergenerational approach towards the...