JORAS - Nigerian Journal of Religion and Society

Social inclusiveness in relation to global demands for Integral Ecological Sustainability (IES) indicates common human responsibility and concern in the building up of environmental home, as a common heritage, that will healthily accommodate every individual, irrespective of his or her social status. Such is the philosophical conviction that orchestrated the issuing of the social encyclical: Laudato Si, by Pope France. It is a social encyclical that has considered the possibilities of integral humanism through genuine 'personalism' of the environment. This socio-political text for reconstruction and re-engineering of human social consciousness in making the environment as our “Common Home” presupposes the possibilities of global social order, when man and environment are indispensably evaluated as one entity which glori?es the creative power of nature. This paper recognises the importance of Laudato Si, postulating that when every individual as a person takes the environment as its very self, such gesture will engineer the culture of common good and solidarity of purposes. Such common responsibility and consciousness for IES will indispensably engineer a global social order and development

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