Philippine cardinal: we approach environmental issues from pastoral, not scientific perspective
September 29, 2015
Stating that “we have been getting these typhoons with intensities that we have not seen before,” Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila said in an interview that he approaches environmental issues from a pastoral rather than a scientific perspective.
“Pope Francis is not the only one who has been criticized for mentioning the sacred obligation to protect the planet, especially by addressing climate change,” Cardinal Tagle told the National Catholic Reporter. “Even [in] our part of the world, whenever Church people mention climate change we get a lot of criticism.”
“But if we read carefully Laudato Sí and other pronouncements of the pope and episcopal conferences, especially those he quoted in Laudato Sí, there is no pretension whatsoever from Church people and other faith groups in terms of making these pronouncements from a scientific perspective,” he continued, adding:
We have seen also how poor people are the most vulnerable when these things happen. So we don’t approach the question from a scientific or a pseudo-scientific approach, but it comes from an existential, pastoral perspective. And from that perspective I think we have every right to get involved in the discussion.
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