Aretologia encykliki Laudato Si’

Abstract

The care for Nature shouldn’t be put out of the margin of the Christians’ earthly involvement. Respect for the creatures’ integrity is the part of human response for God’s call to make the Earth subdued. Only the man harmonized internally by the virtues is able to keep the balance between spiritual and material values. Internal struggle for mastering one’s own passions and desires and for devel- oping one’s best aspirations and potentials to do good is of the utmost importance for external world and is a sine qua non condition for realisation one’s vocation to become holy. Theological and cardinal virtues – generating specific attitudes towards the world – must be stressed out of the whole catalogue of virtues which might serve the ecology. The responsibility for propagating such moral proficiencies belongs to the family, the Church, the country and NGOs themselves.