Francisco wants to confess his environmental sins

"When I administer the sacrament of reconciliation (confession), and also when I did it before, it is unusual for someone to blame himself for violating nature, the earth, the creation.", he said at the reception of experts in moral theology.

"We are still not aware of this type of sins" he lamented, and alluded to "Cry of the earth, raped and wounded in a thousand ways by a selfish exploitation".

"The ecological dimension is an imprescriptible component of the responsibility of each person and each nation", insisted the Argentine pontiff who dedicated the encyclical of 2015 "Laudato if" to the protection of the planet.