New Pope's book: available from October 24

Mireia Bonilla – Vatican City

"Our Mother Earth" is the title of the new book of Pope Francis. It contains a compilation of speeches, messages and homilies in which Francisco spoke for the defense of the environment and called for the promotion of a dignified life for every human being. . "Our Mother Earth" also contains the prologue of the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I and an unpublished text of the Pontifex in which he asks to apologize for the damage done to our planet.

The book will be published on October 24 by the Vatican editions, but the Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera" has already advanced some of the unpublished text of Francisco in which he states that without a real regret of the human being about The fight against the protection of the environment will not help at all: "I sincerely dream of an awareness and a real repentance on the part of all of us, men and women of the 21st century , believers and not our societies, to have left us. lead by a logic that divides, creates hunger, isolates and condemns. It would be nice to be able to apologize to the poor, the excluded; then we could sincerely repent of the harm done to the land, the sea, the air, the animals … "

Francis also writes in his book that asking and forgiving "are actions that are only possible in the Holy Spirit, because he is the architect of the communion that opens the closing of individuals; and it takes a lot of love to put aside one's pride, realize that one was wrong and hope that new ways are really possible. That is why, for the pope, repentance "is a grace to humbly beg with the Lord Jesus Christ, so that in history we will remember our generation, not for its mistakes, but for humility. and the wisdom of being able to reverse the current trend. road ".

In another fragment proposed by the Italian newspaper about the new book, the Pope explains that everything is linked "in kindness and in love" and precisely for this reason that "all lack of love has repercussions on everything". "The ecological crisis that we are experiencing is one of the effects of this sick look on us, on others, on the world, with time, a sick look that does not make us perceive everything as a gift. offered us to discover our loved ones, "writes the pope, pointing out how we now know that pollution, climate change, desertification, environmental migration, unsustainable consumption of the planet's resources, acidification Oceans, the reduction of biodiversity, "These are inseparable aspects of social inequality." But he also speaks about the growing concentration of power and wealth in the hands of very few people and so-called welfare societies, the crazy military spending, the culture of rejection and the lack of world from the point of view of society. the peripheries, lack of protection for children and minors, vulnerable elderly people, unborn children.