Pope Francis Laments ‘Mother Earth Violated and Devastated’

ROME — Pope Francis has denounced the arrogance of those who seek dominion over nature, which leads to the degradation of the environment.

In his annual message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, the pontiff urges people of faith to embrace “creation as an earthly paradise, mother earth, which is meant to be a place of joy and a promise of happiness for all.”

Harmony among men and women “should also be extended to creation,” he writes in the message released Thursday, “in a sense of responsibility for a humane and integral ecology, the path to salvation for our common home and for us who inhabit it.”

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