first of ecumenical kind - with references to the reflections of the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew - and also broadly universal, the text gives attention to the issue of common house "uniting all because the environmental challenge which we live, has its human roots, our concern and affect us all." The text of the pope contains six chapters, preceded by an introduction and closed with two sentences, one dedicated to the land and the other Christian and creation. The first chapter,…