"About 30% of the world’s population has been exposed to deadly heat waves more than 20 days each year, according to the UN Environment Programme.

In a seminar on November 28 in Rome hosted by the embassies of Cuba, Bolivia, and Venezuela to the Holy See, several Cardinals and representatives from these countries came together to discuss the global impacts of the ongoing environmental crisis. ...

Speaking on the deteriorating environmental crisis facing the world, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, stressed it is time to move “from words to action.” He said the answer to this challenge must be based on the Social Doctrine of the Church.

“Dominion over nature”—the task which God gave humanity—should not become “tyrannical.” It must be a “relationship of reciprocity” with the environment, he said."

Kielce Gussie reports for the Vatican News November 29, 2024. [2]