Catholic code of environmental ethics

COMMON DECLARATION OF JOHN PAUL II
AND THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH
HIS HOLINESS BARTHOLOMEW I

In June of 2002, Pope John Paul II and his holiness Bartholomew I issued the first Common Declaration of Environmental Ethics for the Catholic community. 

"We are gathered here today in the spirit of peace for the good of all human beings and for the care of creation..."

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