Discouraging
The March 2024 issue of America ― The Jesuit View includes an article entitled, U.S. Catholics worry about climate change—but don’t rank it as a top issue.
Based on a survey of 1.342 Catholic adults the article states,
Our poll showed that most U.S. Catholics see climate change as a serious problem, but a majority believe that the church is doing enough to address global warming. Only one-third were aware of Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si,” . . .
Laudato Sí is the most important document that any Christian church has published on climate change. Yet we learn that only one-third of U.S. Catholics were even aware of the document’s existence.
This is discouraging.
What is even more discouraging is that so many Catholics believe that the church is doing enough to address global warming.
At this site we suggest that the church needs to work out a theology that speaks to the Age of Limits crises that we face ― of which climate change is just one. Our first theological guideline is,
Understand Physical Realities
We have a long way to go.