Is the New Pope an Environmentalist?

Pope Francis on the day of January 2018 Address In Peru’s Puerto Maldonado, the faithful people are not far from there, where the Amazon Rain Forest was destroyed about the color of the gold mining colorado. He told the crowd, “Local Amazon people probably did not probably have been so threatened on their own land.” He at the same time condemned the disabled industry and conservation efforts that “in the disguise of forest conservation, collecting great expansion of Woodland and discussing with them create a situation of oppression for the domestic people.”

Francis condemned the insatiable consumerism that drives Amazon’s destruction, who supported the guardianship of the indigenous people of their own territories and requested everyone to protect the isolated tribes. “Their cosmic vision and their wisdom have a lot to teach those who are not part of their culture,” he said.

On that day, the indigenous leader of the stadium, Julio Kusurichi Palacios, was the head of the Catholic Church – which claimed 1.5 billion members and had a long, right history of violence against indigenous people worldwide – it was welcome and moment.

“Some world leaders have talked about the issue and the Pope publicly said that the rights of the indigenous peoples were hateor in violation of the Histor,” He After Pope Francis died last month. “Let’s hope that the new pope is a person who died who died can continue to implement the Pope’s position.”

During his 12 years as Pontif, Francis originally re -shape how the world’s most powerful religious institution reached the moral and moral call to protect the planet. Beyond his call for indigenous rights, Francis Colon acknowledged the role of the Church in the colon, and considered climate change as a moral matter born in use and materialism. As the Trump administration breaks the climate work and reduces financing for indigenous people around the world-right-right politics has continued to grow worldwide-experts see the Conclave selection of Robert Francis Privest, or the election of Pope Leo XIV, as he is now known as his faith-based climate.

In 2015, Pope Francis revealed his Historic Tihasik Papal letter or Encyclicical title Ladato yes‘ In a roughly 5-page document, he clearly identifies planet-heating pollution as a global issue that influences the poor worldwide, and condemns the external role like the United States in contributing to the climate crisis. With this, Francis did what a pope did before: he spoke to the degradation of the environment with great clarity and urgent, not only an environmental problem, but also a social and moral one. Lodato C was a specific connection between faith, climate change and social justice and turned it into a Catholic doctrine.

“Pope Francis regularly said that we have a thrown society. We have thrown people we have dropped nature … and we really need a culture that is very much based on care,” Christopher Cox says, The Executive Director Christopher Cox said. Seventh generation interfaith coalition for responsible investment And a former priest. “This means that people care, especially the poorest, the most vulnerable, most marginal and

The first Latin American Pope, Francis was clearly unique in embracing some elements of liberation theology, it was a Catholic social justice movement that called for the release of marginalized people from oppression. Although Francis occasionally criticized the Marxist element of the doctrine and fully supported it, many observers saw his statement about the poor and indigenous people as a reflection of the central values ​​of this doctrine.

“The recognition of the indigenous ways of being a Catholic and indigenous language in Catholicism, from the very beginning of this campaign to this, is the most widely wide official recognition of indigenous contribution to the Catholic religion,” studied relations between the Catholic Pep and the Catholic Church in the Catholic Pep. “Since winning in the century, the indigenous people were forced to embrace their religion, many indigenous communities have made Catholicism their own, and the growing number of church leaders have accepted the idea that there are many ways that Catholic and indigenous culture can coexist.

A year after the Pope, Francis Baptism and confession approved the use of two Mayan languages, Jazotzil and Tizeltal in mass and apostasy. He expanded the list to include Aztec Language Nahuatol in the 21st, and during the visit to Mexico in 2016, he celebrated Geltal, Jazotzil and Cole.

In 2022, Francis officially apologized for a residential school near Canada, which had torn apart from their families, causing many to be buried in unmarked graves later. Next year, he rejected the doctrine of invention, it is a religious concept that Colon Poinbisters used and became useful to justify the land from indigenous peoples A 1823 is part of the US Supreme Court verdict It describes native Americans as “savage”.

Pope Francis “The doctrine of invention is not part of the Catholic Church education,” Says he is adding Strongly supports the global implementation of the UN Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. He also draws a clear connection between that right and climate action: In 2021 he made it clear that the indigenous people Criticism When he said, “ignoring the original communities in the safety of the earth is a serious mistake, not a great injustice.”

However, Pope Francis had limited limits. In 2019, he Calling a meeting of the leaders of the churchKnown as Bishop’s Synde, to solve problems that affect the Amazon basin for the Pan-Amazon region. The indigenous Catholics who participated in the participation of the land defenders brought illegal logging and violence and proposed to reform the proposed reforms. “The ancestral knowledge of the indigenous people ensures that Mother Earth has a feminine face,” The document falls It originated from the rally and called on the church to give women a further leadership role and allow the married decon to be appointed as a priest. In response to herFrancis condemned the corporations that destroyed Amazon as “wrong and crime”, still destroyed them Refuse to embrace the proposals To further include church leadership as women and married men.

There was also Francis’ climate activation PruningThe He transformed the Climate Crisis to Religious Institutions, creating a failure to act as it Ruthless injustice Tow the most vulnerable, however, Nadia Ahmed, an associate professor of Barry University School of Law studying on believing environmental action, could implement “more direct institutional measures”. Although the former Pontif publicly supported the renewable energy, he called for fossil fuel, and called for the world. He did not order that the energy transition was “he thought. The task he performed” can be “a bit more wide and may have more accountability,” Ahmed said.

However, he mentioned, he mentioned, probably derived from anti -politics in the church – many traditional, conservative Catholic, Especially in the United StatesPrevent Francis’s progressive education. A 2021 Study It has been found that during the five -year period, most US bishops were “almost silent and sometimes misleading” to their official message to the parishians about the renowned Encyclic of the Pope.

Although Pope Leo has been praised for his lawyer in the defense of fourth immigrants and labor rights – his name is Leo Dwadsh, who ruled from 1 to 8 to 8 of the Tihasik Catholic Champion. Social justice and equality – the The New Pope track record is rare about being directly involved in climate change.

Nevertheless, Mary Avlin, co-director of the Yale Forum regarding religion and ecology, saw comments on the need to transfer the new pope last year.From words to action“As an assaulting symptom that he will continue to commit Francis for communicating in a warmer world emergency. The Trump administration’s obvious dismissal, eliminating environmental protection, and not losing attacks on indigenous rights, in the United States, the first pontif from the United States to choose the first pontif from the United States.

“It may be the signal that says’ come back into the world, the world community, come back to the future of a planet where we collectively work to create the future of our kids and our kids,” he said.

Leo grew up in Chicago, and he was a citizen of both the United States and Peru, where he spent decades of missionary and bishop for decades before Francis did Cardinal in 2021. He speaks fluently in five languages And some of the KochuaAn indigenous Incan language.

While working in Peru in the sixties, he criticized the human rights violation of the Leo government-even though he was a political fight between the Maoist rebels and the then dictator Alberto Fujimori’s government, according to the Histor Tihasik and Clinical Associate Professor of the University of Arizona. Nevertheless, his response to the authoritarianism of the country as a Pope can give a glimpse of what he can take, Cassie said. “No matter who is abusing human rights, he said he was in favor of the people,” he said.

In 2016, The Pontif will be Speaks at a conference In Brazil where the attendees were threatened by the Amazon Rain Forest and the indigenous people living there. He praised Francis’ Encyclicly, described the document as “very important” and “present something new in this obvious manifestation of the Church concerns for all creation.” To Cassie, it is like Pope Leo XV, like his predecessor, the widespread degradation of the environment, and the affairs of the indigenous peoples are aware of the factors.

“Francis and Privest are both connected to the indigenous people in Europe or the United States that they could not have been in Europe or the United States, because the indigenous politics of Latin America were so different,” said Cassy. More than a week after his pope naming, communities across Peru are still celebrating Pope Leo IV elections.

Levi, a historian at the University of Alfred, says that Francis and Leo Colon Colon Working with the marginalized communities affected by Povabism and climate change and their commitment to the social justice aspects of the Church mission, especially the historian of the University of Alfred, says Levi.

“We are looking at the resurgence of Ultra right -wing politics worldwide and the Catholic Church next to the United Nations is probably able to respond to any form or fashion in our modern age or contemporary moments.”

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