ECUMENICA, PIU-CHE-ECUMENICA O ECUMENALE? L’etica ambientale di Papa Francesco alla prova dei migranti ambientali

Marcello Tanca

2024-01-01

---

Abstract

To whom is the environmental ethic developed by Pope Bergoglio addressed? It is certainly “ecumenic” and this adjective indicates the effort to recompose the unity of Christians in a common confession of faith. In reality, the ambition of "Laudato si’" is to speak to everyone, not just to an christian audience. This makes the scope of its message more-than-ecumenical. But Bergoglio’s environmental ethic is also "ecumenal", in the sense given to this term by Augustin Berque: it recognizes a decisive ontological-geographical bond that simultaneously involves the Earth and humanity.