Catholic Social Justice Teaching
Abstract
ABSTRACT: Climate change is the single largest health threat facing the world today. The purpose of the current article is to help nurses of faith more deeply explore a Catholic Christian response to climate change. Christian moral justice teachings from the Catholic Church's extensive social teaching efforts, including the far-reaching papal encyclicals Laudato Si and Laudato Deum by Pope Francis, and now championed by Pope Leo XIV, are explored.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Religion
Ecology
and Ethics
Climate Change and Geoengineering
Climate Change and Health Impacts
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of Christian Nursing
- Publisher
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- E9–E17
- Publication date
- 2 March 2026
- Language
- EN