United by the same concern. Ecumenical impulses of Pope Francis in the context of integral ecology

Andrzej Anderwald

Uniwersytet Opolski, Wydział Teologiczny
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5932-9845

Abstrakt

One of the important tasks of the Church in the temporal order are concern for the work of creation and for man himself, and sometimes even the defense against threats of technical progress, conducted from any ethical and moral references. The concern for the common home is not only a domain of the Catholic Church. Similarly, other churches and Christian communities as well as other world religions reflect on the issues relating to the degradation of human and natural environment. Thus, the aim of these reflections is an attempt to recognize ecumenical impulses of the Pope in the context of integral ecology that takes into account the interlinkages between different dimensions of reality. Therefore, during the considerations will be presented firstly the papal diagnosis of the social and ecological crisis (1), then the proposals of actions aiming at the development of integral ecology (2) as well as an invitation to a dialogue resulting from the care for the common home (3). The main sources of the analysis undertaken are the two papal documents, namely the encyclical Laudato si’ (LS) and the post-synodal apostolic exhoration Querida Amazonia (QA).

Klíčová slova:

encyclical Laudato si’, post-synodal apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia, integral ecology, ecumenical dialogue