L'écologie dans l'enseignement social de l'Église.

Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato si' constitutes a deepening of the Church's teaching on ecology, along the lines of what was sketched out by Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI. The integral character of the ecological preoccupation, which is found also in other realms of the political and social doctrine of the Church, bears witness to its anthropological nature. It invites towards a new presentation of the ethical bases, both individual and communitarian, of human activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]