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Leaked encyclical warning of ‘unprecedented destruction’ not final version
Vatican spokesman calls Italian magazine’s actions over Papal document on the environment a ‘heinous act,’
Pope Francis will warn of ‘unprecedented destruction’ unless mankind confronts its creation of climate according to a leaked draft of his upcoming encyclical on the environment.
The 192-page draft of Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’, which will officially be released at the Vatican on Thursday morning, has been leaked by an Italian magazine.
A Vatican spokesman described the publication of the draft by L’Espresso magazine as a ‘heinous act’, adding that the leaked document was ‘not the final text.’
The 192-page draft of the encyclical is entitled Laudato Si': On the care of the common home.
The leaked document suggests Pope Francis presents both scientific and moral reasons for protecting God’s creation, and puts much of the blame for global warming on human activities, mentioning the continual loss of biodiversity in the Amazonian rainforest and the melting of Arctic glaciers among other examples.
A Catholic, an Orthodox Christian and an atheist are to present the encyclical Laudato Si’, at it’s official launch on Thursday.
The Pope, speaking during an audience with priests in Rome, said the line-up would reflect the fact that ‘we need unity to protect creation.’
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