With the disappearance of Pope Francis, Monday, April 21, a great defender of ecology dies. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, of his birth name, paved his pontificate of calls to the urgent safeguard of the planet. What earned him a tribute from several political leaders on this point.
Just re -elected patron of Ecologists, Marine Tondelier said on X that he “Had understood better the ecology and the climate generation than a lot of policies”, When the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, recalled for his part that François had been able to place “Ecology at the center of spiritual and social concerns”.
Within the French Church too, the look that the Sovereign Pontiff was on the destruction of the planet and its biodiversity is underlined in pronounced tributes. In his press release, the president of the Conference of Bishops of France, Eric de Moulins Beaufort, recalls that “Faced with the ecological crisis, he renewed reflection by inviting to treat” the common house “, to rent the creator, to unite attention to the environment and attention to people victims of social injustices”.
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Source: Lemonde