Tablet features: Care for Creation. Austen Ivereigh on Pope Leo XIV and the tenth anniversary of Laudato si’

With global temperatures crashing through the 1.5C limit agreed at COP21 in Paris 10 years ago, and on the eve of another likely-to-disappoint COP in Belém, Brazil, I took a 45-minute train ride south from Rome on 1 October to Castel Gandolfo. I was one of the speakers at the “Raising Hope” conference, organised by the Laudato Si’ Movement (LSM) to mark another tenth anniversary: the publication of Laudato si’, Francis’ great encyclical letter that helped produce the Paris pledge. Why Castel Gandolfo? Because the Vatican-owned papal summer palace and gardens overlooking Lake Albano – which Francis opened to the public as a museum – are now subsumed into a 136-acre eco-village and theme park: the Borgo Laudato Si’ (slogan: “Where beauty has put down roots”).

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