Pope Francis Said
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for all of you, OCTOBER 18, 2020 constantly mentioning you in our prayers, TERHAD remembering before our God and Father PP 8460/11/2012(030939) your work of faith and labour of love and ISSN: 1394-3294 steadfastness of hope in Vol. 27 No. 41 THE CATHOLIC WEEKLY our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thes. 1:1-3 Pope’s Nun lend Blessed Carlo Encyclical their Acutis is a echoes building to model for Asian Pope for young people realities refugees to put God first P3 & 10 P5 P16 Time is running out to fix economy, protect the Earth, help the poor ATICAN: The predomi- in taking action. nant global economic sys- “As the term ‘countdown’ suggests, we must act urgently,” Pope Francis said. “Each Vtem is “unsustainable,” one of us can play a valuable role if we all set particularly in its impact on the en- out today — not tomorrow, today.” vironment, Pope Francis said. “Science tells us, every day more precisely, “We are faced with the moral imperative that we need to act urgently — I am not exag- — and the practical urgency — to rethink gerating — this is what science tells us, if we many things” about the economy: “how we are to have any hope of avoiding radical and produce, how we consume, our culture of catastrophic climate change,” he said. “This waste, its short-term vision, the exploitation is a scientific fact.” of the poor, indifference toward them, the As he did in his 2015 encyclical letter, increase of inequality and its dependence on “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common harmful energy sources,” the Pope said Oct Home,” Pope Francis insisted in his TEDx 10 as part of the global TEDx Countdown on talk that concern for the environment must go climate change.
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