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Is It a Sin to Cause Environmental Degradation? Will Calling It a Sin Be Helpful?

Last week, Pope Francis announced that the Catholic Church was considering introducing into the Catechism “the sin against ecology, the ecological sin against the common home.”

My immediate question on seeing this statement was whether it would have any impact on the fight against climate change or other environmental degradation.  After all, the Vatican estimates that there are more than 1.2 billion Catholics world-wide. … More