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A timely message for everyone about the importance of integral ecology to the future
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Table of Contents
Page 5
Preface
Dialogues for the Earth
By Domenico Pompili, Bishop of Rieti, Italy
Page 15
Part One
Three Dialogues
Page 17
Introduction
By Carlo Petrini
Page 19
Dialogue from May 30, 2018
Page 43
Dialogue from July 2, 2019
Page 69
Dialogue from July 9, 2020
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Part Two
Five Themes
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Biodiversity
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Biodiversity
By Carlo Petrini
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Querida Amazonia
(from the Apostolic Exhortation following the Synod of Bishops QUERIDA AMAZONIA by His Holiness Pope
Francis, spoken to the people of God and of all people of good will, Rome, February 2, 2020.)
By Pope Francis
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Economy
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Economy
By Carlo Petrini
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Evangelii gaudium
(from the Apostolic Exhortation following the Synod of Bishops QUERIDA AMAZONIA by His Holiness Pope
Francis, spoken to the bishops, presbyteries and deacons, to those who are ordained and to those who are faithful
laymen, in the announcement of the Gospel of today, Rome, November 24, 2013.)
By Pope Francis
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Letter from His Holiness Pope Francis to the popular movements
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Migrations
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Migrations
By Carlo Petrini
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It is not only about Immigrants (message from His Holiness Pope Francis for the 105th World Day of
Refugees and Migrants 2019, September 29, 2019.)
By Pope Francis
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Education
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Education
By Carlo Petrini
Page 187
An encounter with students and with the academic world (Bologna, October 1, 2017.)
By Pope Francis
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Message from the Holy Father for the launching of the Educational Pact (Vatican, September 12, 2019.)
By Pope Francis
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Community
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Community
By Carlo Petrini
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(Re)Thinking Europe (October 28, 2017.)
By Pope Francis
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Message by Pope Francis at the II Forum of the Laudato si’ Community (Amatrice, July 6, 2019.)
By Pope Francis
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Acknowledgements
About the author
Carlo Petrini is an Italian activist, journalist, author, and founder of Slow Food International. He is the author of six books, including Slow Food Revolution: A New Culture for Eating and Living and Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities. He has received numerous awards, including the Sicco Mansholt Prize (Netherlands), the Eckart Witzigmann Prize (Germany), and he was named one of Time magazine’s one hundred most influential people of the year. He lives in Italy. Pope Francis is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In early life he worked as a food scientist and chemist. He later joined the Catholic priesthood wherein he was named archbishop of Buenes Aires and later cardinal. His papacy as bishop of Rome and sovereign head of the Church and Vatican City State began in 2013. He lives in Rome.
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A timely message for everyone about the importance of integral ecology to the future
