World and/or Creation: Theological Approach to an Integral Ecology

This article basically is faced with three key concepts: World, Creation and Integral ecology.The last one, as each of us is aware, is taken from Pope Francis' encyclical Letter Laudato Si'.It is, perhaps, the most relevant idea endorsed by the Pope in his encyclical, given that he devotes a whole chapter to it stressing the need of an integral ecology for the full development of humanity.In that way, the Pope addresses not only Christians, but everyone.At the same time, it is essential to recognize a specific call to Christian, particularly Catholic, communities to consider the ecological issues as a constitutive dimension of church's engagement in the world.Basically, Christian communities should be helped to recognize and to seek out positive paths to embracing environmental concerns as central to their mission, while shunning the things that cripple their ability to care for our common home.If this is indeed true, this means that every Christian (Catholic) community is called to accept Pope Francis' invitation to an ecological conversion (LS 5 and 216), inseparable from interior conversion (LS 217).In Pope Francis' words; an "ecological conversion", whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become Crossing: The INPR Journal Crossing: The INPR Journal.