Two Vatican dicasteries released a joint document calling upon Catholic families to embrace ‘integral ecology,’ drawing a direct line between environmental practice and moral formation.
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — A new Vatican document calls on Catholic families to embrace “integral ecology,” framing “ecological conversion” as inseparable from the “journey toward holiness” and linking ecological habits to the fight against abortion and euthanasia.
On April 27, the Dicastery for Integral Human Development and the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life released a joint document titled “Integral Ecology in the Life of the Family,” the stated goal of which is to present the Catholic family as the “primary subject” of conversion to integral ecology.
“Social ecology is necessarily institutional, and gradually extends to the whole of society, from the primary social group, the family, to the wider local, national and international communities,” the document reads, quoting directly from Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato si’.