IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jscscx/v12y2023i10p552-d1252622.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

What Precisely Did Pope Francis Contribute? Parsing Key Terms and Claims in Laudato Si’

Author

Listed:
  • Thomas Massaro

    (Department of Theology, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, NY 10458, USA)

Abstract

With the 2015 publication of his encyclical letter Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home , Pope Francis emerged as a leading religious voice (alongside Patriarch Bartholomew) advocating for ecological justice and environmental sustainability. This remarkable exercise of global leadership has demonstrably influenced subsequent discourse, activism and deliberations on the environment, including the Paris Agreement of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in December 2015. In order to advance the collective understanding of the diagnosis of the environmental crisis and the prescriptions for change presented by Pope Francis in this teaching document, this essay examines key terms, claims and conceptual tools presented in its pages. This essay opens with a pointed analysis of the historical context within which this particular religious contribution to environmental justice proceeds. It closes by tracing certain key outcomes and ongoing impacts of the contribution of Pope Francis to this area of social concern.

Suggested Citation

  • Thomas Massaro, 2023. "What Precisely Did Pope Francis Contribute? Parsing Key Terms and Claims in Laudato Si’," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(10), pages 1-12, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2023:i:10:p:552-:d:1252622
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/10/552/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/10/552/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2023:i:10:p:552-:d:1252622. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.