It was a special privilege for me to attend the formal publication of the green encyclical by Pope Francis on June 18, 2015. Laudato Si: On Care for our Common Home
was jointly released in the new synod hall of the Vatican by His
Eminence Peter Cardinal Turkson of the Pontifical Council for Justice
and Peace and His Eminence Metropolitan John [Zizioulas] of Pergamon, a
senior bishop and theological spokesman of the Church of Constantinople,
the Ecumenical Patriarchate
