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Pope Benedict’s environmentalism concerned with the ‘ecology of man,’ Vatican observer writes
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.- Pope Benedict XVI’s so-called “green revolution” differs in key ways from parts of the environmentalist movement, Vatican expert Sandro Magister says. While some forms of environmentalism place nature first in relation to mankind, he explains that the Pope has as his priority the “ecology of Man” in relation to God. Magister, writing at www.chiesa.espressonline.it/?eng=y, commented on Pope Benedict's Dec. 8 message for the World Day of Peace, observed every January 1. At the center of this message, he says, is the biblical image of the Garden of Eden, “entrusted by God to man and woman for them to protect and cultivate.” “Nature therefore has no primacy over man, nor is man a tiny part of nature. Nor, in his turn, can man usurp the right to despoil nature instead of taking care of it,” Magister writes. The Vatican analyst cites as an illustration a masterpiece of Piero della Francesca, which shows a “cultivated, orderly and luminous” background landscape highlighting the same characteristics of the woman in the foreground who is “illuminated” with pearls. An essential concept of Pope Benedict is that the ecology of nature and the ecology of man share “the same destiny.” “Care for creation must be one and the same with care for the ‘inviolability of human life in every one of its phases and every one of its conditions,’” Magister adds. “Wherever hatred and violence break out, nature weeps as well. A devastated landscape and an uninhabitable city are the product of a humanity that has made a desert of its own soul,” his analysis at www.Chiesa concludes. Subscriber comments:
Published by: Stephen
USA 12/20/2009 10:57 AM EST
The Garden of Eden was the perfect world for man. This fallen man can only have that perfect world once again if they turn to Almighty God. With God there will one day soon be a perfect eternal world where Jesus Christ will reign as king of kings for ever and ever. The day and the hour of the Second Coming of Jesus only God the Father knows. Not even the Son or the angels know the day or the hour. Look up for your redemtption draws near.
Published by: DLL
scituate Mass 12/20/2009 06:23 AM EST
People are to serve God and one another. A single individual is nothing without one another and their Creator God. The Earth was created by God for humankind. Humankind by their own freewill either take care of the environment or destroy it. This is also what they are capable of doing to each other. All must care for each other and treasure life. Choose life or choose death,as this is in the power of all of humankind,they must choose life and love life and one another. This is the way to serve each other and God who is love. Infrastructure is to maintain the physical and ones spiritual environment because as the article states:"Whenever hatred and violence break out,nature weeps as well"!
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