The leaked draft of “Laudato Si’”, Pope Francis’ widely anticipated encyclical on the crisis of climate change and other global environmental concerns, contains 246 numbered paragraphs contained within a preface and six chapters. The translation below from the original Italian is very rough, a Google translation amended by Brad Johnson.
ENCYCLICAL: PRAISED BE
Table of Contents
-
Praised be, my Lord [1-2]
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- CHAPTER ONE: WHAT IS
HAPPENING TO OUR
HOME
[17-19]
- Pollution and climate
change
- Pollution, refuse, and culture of waste [20-22]
- The climate as a common good [23-26]
- The water issue [27-31]
- Biodiversity loss [32-42]
- Deterioration in the quality of human life and social degradation [43-47]
- Planetary inequities [48-52]
- The weakness of the reactions [53-59]
- Diversity of opinions [60-61]
- Pollution and climate
change
- CHAPTER TWO: THE
GOSPEL OF
CREATION
[62]
- The light that faith offers [63-64]
- The wisdom of the biblical accounts [65-75]
- The mystery of the universe [76-83]
- The message of every creature in the harmony of all creation [84-88]
- A universal communion [89-92]
- The common destination of goods [93-95]
- The gaze of Jesus [96-100]
- CHAPTER THREE: THE
ROOT OF HUMAN ECOLOGICAL
CRISIS
[101]
- Technology: creativity and power [102-105]
- The globalization of the technocratic paradigm [106-114]
- Crises and consequences of modern
anthropocentrism
[115-121]
- Relativism practice [122-123]
- The need to defend labor [124-129]
- Innovation from biological research [130-136]
- CHAPTER FOUR: INTEGRAL
ECOLOGY
[137]
- Environmental, economic and social ecology [138-142]
- Cultural ecology [143-146]
- Ecology of daily life [147-155]
- The principle of the common good [156-158]
- Intergenerational justice [159-162] 122
- CHAPTER FIVE: SOME GUIDELINES AND ACTION [163]
- CHAPTER SIX: EDUCATION
AND ECOLOGICAL
SPIRITUALITY
[202]
- Pointing to another way of life [203-208]
- Educating the alliance between mankind and the environment [209-215]
- The conversion scheme [216-221]
- Joy and peace [222-227]
- Civil and political love [228-232]
- The sacramental signs and the celebratory repose [233-237]
- The Trinity and the relationship between the creatures [238-240]
- The Queen of all creation [241-242]
- Beyond the
sun
[243-246]
- Prayer for our Earth
- Christian prayer with creation
- CHAPTER ONE: WHAT IS
HAPPENING TO OUR
HOME
[17-19]