With the new pope, ecology is always on the agenda

A few months ago, on November 28, 2024, held in Rome one of these many work seminars led by the different Dicasteries of the Vatican. This time, in the presence of the Ambassadors of Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela, several cardinals came to participate in a time of reflection around the impact of the environmental crisis.

Among them, the one who was then only Cardinal Prévost spoke as president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and prefect of the Dicastery for the Bishops. Commenting on the text of Pope Francis, sent for the occasion and evoking the dramatic impact of current changes on the poorest populations, he stressed that the time had come, more than ever, to act.

“The lordship on nature – a work that God has entrusted to humanity – must not become tyrannical but be experienced as a relationship of reciprocity, with the environment. »»

Auspicious expressions for this new pontiff while the tenth anniversary of the encyclical approaches Laudato if ‘. The Peruvian experience of Léon XIV will undoubtedly be sufficiently enlightened on the excesses of globalization, the extractivist ideology and the exploitation of the poorest as well as their environment.

Bishop on site, he often had to move on horseback to join the Andean communities of his diocese. What not go too fast. But probably go further.