Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home

Introduction: From "The Problem of Population" to "The Challenge of Global Stewardship" / Maura A. Ryan -- Sect. 1. Sources for an Ethic of Global Stewardship. 1. Learn a Lesson from the Flowers: Catholic Social Teaching and Global Stewardship / Drew Christiansen. 2. Global Stewardship: Toward an Ethic of Limitation / Joseph Blenkinsopp. 3. Theological Resources for Earth-Healing: Covenant and Sacrament / Rosemary Radford Ruether. 4. Intrinsic Value, Persons, and Stewardship / John F. Kavanaugh -- Sect. II. Particular Problems: Population, Environment, and Development. 5. A Catholic Perspective on Population / James T. McHugh. 6. Re-reading Cairo: Moral Argument and Universal Human Rights / George Weigel.

Message from the planet -- When prophecy fails -- Energy and empire -- Climate economics -- Ethical emissions -- Dwelling in the light -- Mobility and pilgrimage -- Faithful feasting -- Remembering in time.

Part I. The Context of Responsibility: Responsibility and moral confusion ; A new ethics of responsibility -- Part II. The Theory of Responsibility: The idea of responsibility ; Theories of responsibility ; Moral values and the imperative of responsibility ; Freedom and responsibility ; Responsibility and moral identity -- Part III. The Source of Responsibility: Power, responsibility, and the divine ; Responsibility and Christian ethics.