Laudate Deum
2023 exhortation of Pope Francis / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laudate Deum (Praise God) is an apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis, published on October 4, 2023.[1] It was released on the 2023 Feast of St Francis Assisi as a follow-up to his 2015 encyclical Laudato si'. The text is about 8,000 words divided into 73 paragraphs.[2]
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Laudate Deum Latin for 'Praise God' Apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis | |
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Signature date | 4 October 2023 (2023-10-04) |
Subject | On care for the poor and Earth |
Number | 6 of 7 of the pontificate |
Text | |
C’est la confiance → |
In it, Pope Francis calls for speedier action against the climate crisis and condemns climate change denial.[3]
The apostolic exhortation, dated 4 October 2023, was officially presented the following day—Thursday morning, October 5—in a press conference called “Laudate Deum: voices and testimonies on the climate crisis”, held in the Vatican Gardens, in Largo della Radio, in front of the Palazzina Leone XIII of the Vatican.[4]
The Vatican released the document in Italian, Belarusian, German, English, Spanish, French, Polish, Portuguese and Arabic.
It is Pope Francis' sixth apostolic exhortation, after Querida Amazonia, which was released in 2020.[5]