Catholic Bishops Call for End to Fossil Fuels
10 December 2014
Announcement
Citing an order “to treat respectfully Creation,” a group of Catholic bishops have called for an end to the use of fossil fuels. They also urged negotiators at the United Nations climate talks in Lima, Peru, to lay the foundation for an internationally binding agreement next year in Paris. The bishops said:
Humankind on the Planet Earth is ordained to live in equity, justice and dignity, peace and harmony in the midst of the order of Creation. Humankind is ordered to treat respectfully Creation, which has a value in itself.
The statement came Wednesday from nine bishops from four continents and five countries, primarily from the Global South, with five from host country Peru. That included Archbishop Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón of Ayacucho, president of the Peruvian bishops’ conference.