With his Exhortation Laudate Deum, Pope Francis has not only clarified and brought to completion the message of the Encyclical Laudato si’, published eight years ago.
This new document, full of data and numbers drawn from the most recent scientific literature, does more than just sound yet another dramatic alarm about the worsening consequences of climate change, in the hope that COP28 in Dubai will finally reverse the trend before it is too late.
Laudate Deum contains much more, and in the chapter devoted to the weakness of international politics it puts its finger on a plague of our times: the absence of supranational institutions and organizations capable of enforcing commitments and settling disputes. The Holy Father contextualizes his suggestions, looking in particular at the climate crisis and the need to reduce harmful emissions through a real ecological conversion, but they concern our future, and not only as it relates to care for creation. They are in fact applicable to other spheres – just think of war, indeed of the many wars that are being fought in the world at this precise moment, tiles of a ghastly mosaic that Francis has repeatedly called “World War III fought piecemeal.”
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