Carlo Petrini - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 17 Sep 2020 06:52:25 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Carlo Petrini - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope Teams up With Slow Food Founder for Environment Appeal https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/09/17/pope-slow-food-environment-appeal/ Thu, 17 Sep 2020 07:51:48 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=130726 Pope Francis has formed an unusual partnership with the agnostic Italian founder of the Slow Food movement while doubling down on calls to protect the environment from profit-driven development that he says harms the world's poorest the most. Francis on Saturday welcomed Carlo Petrini to the Vatican and met with participants of an association the Read more

Pope Teams up With Slow Food Founder for Environment Appeal... Read more]]> Pope Francis has formed an unusual partnership with the agnostic Italian founder of the Slow Food movement while doubling down on calls to protect the environment from profit-driven development that he says harms the world's poorest the most.

Francis on Saturday welcomed Carlo Petrini to the Vatican and met with participants of an association the former communist activist helped form to put into practice the pope's appeals for ecological sustainability and solidarity. The association is named for Francis' 2015 environmental encyclical, "Laudato Si" (Praised Be). read more

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