"After the Vatican recently hosted several international conferences on the environment and environmental problems, headlines reported that the Catholic Church is finally jumping on the environmental bandwagon. They were wrong on two counts. First, Catholic teaching has long been that care for the earth is both a duty that we owe to God and a reflection of our respect for each other. So, the Church isn’t some Johnny-come-lately to protecting the planet. Second, the Church’s understanding of what it means to be a good steward is not precisely in line with the thinking of many modern environmentalist."
In an October 2008 article in Catholic Answers, Ronald J. Rychlak (see previous post) wrote about God calling on humans to be good stewards of His creation.
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Catholic Answers: Should Catholics Be Environmentalists? (October 2008)
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