The Pope pushed for the inclusion of the concern for the environment to the traditional seven works of mercy that the faithful are called to perform.
Pope Francis is taking his green agenda to a new level by supplementing Jesus’s Gospel call to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and visit the sick.
On Thursday, the Pope pushed for the inclusion of the ‘concern for the environment’ to the traditional seven works of mercy that Christians are called to perform.
The Pope’s proposal was made in a message to mark the church’s World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, which he instituted in 2015 in a bid to highlight his ecological concerns.
The call was the logical extension of Pope Francis’ landmark and controversial ecological encyclical issued in 2015.
The world’s first Latin American pope called for a revolution to correct what he called a “structurally perverse” economic system in which the rich have exploited the poor and turned the Earth into an “immense pile of filth”.