“We need a conversation which includes everyone, since the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affect us all” - Pope Francis.

As Churches we have often neglected our responsibilities for the protection of creation or have even distorted the true attitude towards the environment.

Poll also found Catholics (43%) barely ahead of the general public (39%) in viewing global warming as a moral issue.

“It offers individual believers and the community a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of creation."