Papal message to conference on climate change

October 13, 2015

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, has sent a message in Pope Francis’s name to a Bolivian conference on climate change and the defense of life.

The Pontiff, said Cardinal Parolin, hoped that the conference would be guided by the principles of a “just integral ecology” and consider the “true good of the human person.”

 

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Further information:

• Messaggio alla II Conferenza mondiale dei popoli sul cambiamento climatico e la difesa della vita (Holy See Press Office)
• In Bolivia, Ban urges action on climate change, says caring for planet is 'moral issue' (UN News Centre)