Ecology was a major theme of the French bishops’ April 5-8 meeting ( French website) at Lourdes.

“Our Western societies are aware their remarkable development has taken place at the cost of other world regions — that their race forward in growth has been possible only by polluting or destroying other spaces,” said Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort of Reims, president of the bishops’ conference. “We must dare to denounce the structures of sin, and proclaim that other ways of human living are possible”