World leaders in Paris at COP21, Pope in Africa
It is no coincidence Pope Francis is in Africa while world leaders gather in Paris in the run-up to COP21.
Jaime Tatay is a Jesuit priest and a forest engineer currently living in Madrid, Spain. He is working on a doctorate in social ethics and is involved in campus ministry (and he doesn't hike as much as he’d like to).
It is no coincidence Pope Francis is in Africa while world leaders gather in Paris in the run-up to COP21.
Our abuse or sound use of God’s created goods will indeed determine the fate of our descendants and of the poor. Caring for Creation and caring for the poor (both the distant one and the unborn) has become one and the same task. We cannot have one, anymore, without the other.
Who is the landowner, the one who planted the vineyard? For a believer, the answer is obvious: God, the Creator, who made us stewards of His vineyard. And what about all those messengers trying to tell us, the tenants, something? Let me guess: they are the ones telling us who we are: stewards of the vineyard, not owners.
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