Cardinal
Turkson: Six 'doors' for the Care of Creation
(Vatican
Radio) ‘Care for all Creation: a door to our common home’ was the title of a
lecture by Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Pontifical Justice and Peace
Council in London on Friday. In his address for the Paul VI Memorial Lecture,
hosted by the Catholic aid and development agency CAFOD, the cardinal explored
Pope Francis’ recent encyclical, Laudato Si’, proposing six ‘doors’ through
which to approach the current crises facing our world.
Speaking
just days before the Pope will open the Holy Door of St Peter’s Basilica to
inaugurate the Jubilee year of mercy, Cardinal Turkson said the first key point
to remember is that the global crises of injustice and environmental
destruction affect all people and every part of our world.
Secondly,
he said, everyone must act in responding through the most appropriate means,
from lobbying politicians – as Catholic bishops did in their appeal to
leaders attending the Paris climate summit – to simpler ways of saving
energy and recycling waste.
A
third ‘door’ through which to view the current environmental crisis, the
cardinal said, is to understand how all of creation is inter-connected, thus
how we treat the earth affects how we treat our fellow human beings.
Fourthly,
he said, we must be truthful in identifying the urgency of our situation and
fifthly we must be open to dialogue and seeking solutions in solidarity with
all people of good will.
The
sixth and final ‘door’ that Cardinal Turkson suggested was the deeper dialogue
of prayer which, he said, can lead to profound interior conversion. We need to
adopt “a bigger, higher vision” for the future of our planet, he said, and
“prayer can get us looking and yearning and hoping in the right
direction”.
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