Thursday, June 6, 2013

Pope:Throwaway Culture Mars Environment, Life; Says "Economy and Financial System Lack Ethics"

Pope Francis has blamed widespread degradation of the natural environment and disregard for human life on an increasingly common "throwaway culture" that places no value on the needs of others, the Catholic News website reports today (June 6, 2013).

"We are living through a moment of crisis," the pope said on June 5 during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square.  "We see it in the environment, but above all we see it in man. The human person is in danger."

Noting that the United Nations had designated June 5 as World Environment Day, Pope Francis recalled the biblical account of creation, according to which God made man and woman to "cultivate and protect the earth."

"We have distanced ourselves from God, we do not read His signs," the pope said. "Today's environmental problems also betray neglect of what Catholic teaching calls 'human ecology,'" he said. "What rules today is not man, it is money," the pope said, denouncing an "economy and financial system lacking in ethics."

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