How Laudato si’ made green ideas mainstream
A graffiti depicting Pope Francis cleaning the sky from pollution, painted on a wall of Albano, near Rome, in 2019. The graffiti by artist Maupal, Mauro Pallotta and named Exemplum Omnibus (Example for All) was inspired by Laudato Si'
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Tablet features: Laudato si’ at 10 – the green roots of faith
Laudato si’ caught the imagination – by its timing, by its language, both trenchant and poetic, by the very symbolism of an encyclical letter devoted to our ecological crisis. Suddenly, it was no longer just the Pope and a few eccentrics like me who cared about ecology as Catholics. Bishops’ conferences across the world came on board; parishes engaged; Christians of other Churches read the letter.
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