Briefing Paper 581 – South Africa and Laudate Deum by Bernadette Crewe-Brown
Pope Francis’s new Apostolic Exhortation, Laudate Deum,1 exposes the unusual acceleration of the deterioration of our planet. Delivered by the head of the Catholic Church and addressed to “all people of goodwill”, Laudate Deum is a strong warning about the growing climate crisis. The present crisis goes well beyond normal ecological change, and we need to become more aware of the necessity to care for one another, and for the earth, because the two are intimately bound together.
BP 581 South Africa and Laudate Deum by Bernadette Crewe-Brown