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The Catholic Church Is Focusing on the Wrong Crisis, by Gaetano Masciullo – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Catholic Church Is Focusing on the Wrong Crisis, by Gaetano Masciullo

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Pope Leo XIV blesses a chunk of ice from a glacier in Greenland during the opening session of an international conference celebrating the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’s encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” at the Mariapoli Center in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Oct. 1, 2025. The ice block was fished out of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland after becoming detached from the ice sheet. It was brought to the event by artist Olafur Eliasson with the help of geologist Minik Rosing. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

By Gaetano Masciullo, The European Conservative, May 17, 2026

Gaetano Masciullo is an Italian philosopher, author, and freelance journalist. His main focus is addressing the modern phenomena that threaten the roots of Western Christian civilization.

 

Every attempt to correct inequalities through political intervention or global planning ends up destroying the mechanisms that generate real prosperity.

On April 27, two Vatican dicasteries—the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life—published a joint document aimed at raising awareness among Catholic families about an issue which, according to the dicasteries themselves, represents an urgent crisis both for the world and for the Church itself.

This urgent crisis for the Vatican dicasteries is the ecological crisis. For this reason, the text goes so far as to suggest that a Catholic family, in order truly to be such, cannot exempt itself from educating its members in ecological respect. Indeed, that the very concept of Catholic spirituality includes an “integral ecological” consciousness. …