The first part of the Ateneo/Manila Observatory forum on Laudato Si, Aug. 13, 2015 at the Henry Lee Irwin Theatre. Guest speaker at the forum was Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio G. Cardinal Tagle.
Cardinal Tagle delivered a brief synopsis of the papal encyclical and discussed how Pope Francis is calling for a re-examination of the highly anthropocentric and haphazard way of living that has led to the steady decline of our planet.
The key term he used was “integral ecology” - the recognition of the many facets of an environmental issue that is not only affecting human beings but also every other creature on earth, to which the former is fundamentally connected.
Cardinal Tagle stressed how the problem is simultaneously economic, social, environmental, political, and cultural in nature, especially when dealing with how it has been affecting those in what the pope termed las periferias existenciales - the existential margins.
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