Pope Francis joins others in holding a banner during an audience at the Vatican June 5, 2023, with the organizers of the Green & Blue Festival. The banner calls for financing a "loss and damage" fund that was agreed upon at the COP27 U.N. climate conference in 2022. The fund would seek to provide financial assistance to nations most vulnerable and impacted by the effects of climate change. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Recently I shared that Pope Francis announced that he would add to his magisterial environmental encyclical, Laudato Si, sometime this Fall. That title can be translated "praise be to you" in honour of the Canticle of the Sun, penned by his namesake, Francis of Assisi. Fittingly, Pope Francis announced on the eve of the ecumenical Season of Creation that this new document will be released on October 4th, the final day of Creation Time and the Feast of St. Francis.
Here is a portion of a news release from Earthbeat, a project of the National Catholic Reporter.
Pope Francis will release a follow-up document on the environment on Oct. 4, providing an update to his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si', On Care for Our Common Home" — a landmark papal letter that offered a rallying cry for global action in the fight against climate change.
Francis said the new document is an effort to help "put an end to the senseless war against our common home" and comes after a summer of record breaking rising temperatures, wildfires and storms.
"It is a terrible world war," he lamented.
As an admirer of Laudato Si I look forward to this "sequel."
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