"Advance the common good"

Resist special interest group, partisan and ideological appeals global warming and instead focus on “common ground for common action to advance the common good,” the American bishops told U.S. congressional leaders.

We are very encouraged that our Catholic Leadership is taking up the cause of what is the greatest moral issue of our time - "Global Warming". Without a planet we can inhabit - how moral would this generation be if we left a disaster for our children?

In a Feb. 7 letter, Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Orlando, Fla., chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Policy, urged legislators to address the moral and environmental dimensions of global climate change, stressing the urgency of immediate action rather “than wait until the problem gets worse and the remedies more costly.”

We have the ability to reverse much of the damage. We owe our children. How dare we leave this with them to deal with! We need strong leadership on this issue now, and it is heartening to see the Catholic Bishops leading the way.

The bishops called on Congress to resist demands not to act until there is “absolute certainty” about the sources of global warming. ”It is better to act now than wait until the problem gets worse and the remedies more costly,” Bishop Wenski said in the letter.

“The traditional virtue of prudence,” he added, “leads us to act now to avoid the worst consequences of waiting.”

“We seek your help in lifting up and focusing on how climate change will affect the ‘least among us’ – the poor, the vulnerable and the voiceless in our country and around the world. We particularly seek your leadership in shaping responses that respect and protect the lives and the dignity of poor families and children,” Bishop Wenski said.

”We believe the moral measure of debate and decisions on climate change will be how we act with prudence to protect God’s creation, advance the ‘common good,’ and mitigate the ways that climate change and its remedies burden the poor and the vulnerable,” he concluded.

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