It’s been six months now since the Pope’s encyclical Laudato Si’ was released but I have yet to read any mention of it in the Record or heard a word from any pulpit. It carries an important message for us all, not just Roman Catholics. Congregations will happily sing All Things Bright and Beautiful, recite Psalm 24, or read the first lines of St. John’s gospel, but evidence suggests concern for our God-given environment may be shallow and superficial; are we paying only lip-service?
Have any synods, congregations, sessions or outreach committees collectively studied the Pope’s message looking for ways to apply it locally? Commentary in a recent technical periodical recommends “… that the Encyclical should be essential reading for all concerned with the environment [and] conservation …” Doesn’t that include all of us? How are we responding?
About R.M. Strang , White Rock, B.C.
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