A view of the Borgo
Laudato Sì in the Pontifical Villas of Castel Gandolfo
Pope Leo XIV visits the Borgo Laudato Sì in Castel
Gandolfo
Pope Leo XIV travels to Castel Gandalfo, where he pays a
visit to the Borgo Laudato Sì, an area of the papal residence converted by Pope
Francis into a space for formation and raising awareness about the care for our
common home.
By Vatican News staff reporters
Pope Leo XIV on Thursday made a surprise excursion to the
papal residence in Castel Gandalfo, where he visited the Borgo Laudato
Sì project initiated by his predecessor Pope Francis.
The Borgo Laudato Sì (“Laudato Sì Village”), located on the
grounds of the Papal Villas, is a space dedicated to formation and education on
the theme of the earth as our “common home” – an example of the “integral
ecology” at the heart of the encyclical for which it is named.
During his visit to Castel Gandolfo, the Holy Father also
visited the Apostolic Palace, which Francis had had transformed into a museum
in 2016.
Borgo Laudato Sì
With the publication of Laudato Sì ten
years ago, Pope Francis shone a spotlight on the critical issue of care for our
common home. The natural spaces surrounding the papal residence at Castel
Gandolfo – including 20 hectares of farmland, greenhouses, and services
buildings – were determined to be the best place to give concrete form to the
principles proclaimed in the encyclical.
That dream came to fruition in 2023, when Pope Francis
founded the Borgo with two chirographs, with the intention of making a tangible
contribution “to the development of ecological education” under the auspices of
the Laudato Sì Centre for Higher Education, established at the same time and
tasked with raising awareness about care for the environment.
With the help of the experts in botany, biology, integral
ecology, and related disciplines, the Borgo began to offer opportunities to
explore the values underlying the encyclical and, at the same time, job
preparation courses such as those for gardeners and green space maintenance
workers.
The Borgo Laudato Sì welcomes not only entrepreneurs and
specialists, schoolchildren, and university students, but also those who are
marginalized, for whom Pope Francis had special affection, including migrants,
women victims of violence, disabled people, ex-prisoners, ex-drug addicts, and
many others who are often deprived of educational opportunities
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