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“Acts of God” or Human Choices? An Ethical Reflection on “Natural” Disasters

Revista Iberoamericana de Bioética, 2020
The paper argues that, for the most part, disasters are not natural. Although natural hazards normally affect all residents of a geographical area, they are rarely affected to the same degree, given that social vulnerability is unequally distributed in ...
Jorge José Ferrer
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Integrating Catholic Teachings into Education: Promoting Sustainable Practices Through Laudato Si’ in Lebanon

Religions
Environmental challenges have become essential to study in today’s world because of the technical advancements and human achievements that have promoted an overestimation of human capabilities.
Nada Mallah Boustani
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The Logic of Appropriation: A Theological Synthesis of the ‘Throwaway Culture’ and the Theology of the Body

Religions
This paper investigates the anthropological and ethical roots of the global ecological and social crisis, centered on Pope Francis’s critique of the “throwaway culture” (Laudato Si’, LS).
Sesil Lim, Yong-Gil Lee
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Nutrition, ecology and nutritional ecology: toward an integrated framework [PDF]

Functional Ecology, 2009
Summary 1. The science of nutritional ecology spans a wide range of fields, including ecology, nutrition, behaviour, morphology, physiology, life history and evolutionary biology. But does nutritional ecology have a unique theoretical framework and research program and thus qualify as a field of research in its own right? 2.
Raubenheimer, David, Simpson, Steven J., Mayntz, David   +2 more
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The Concept of the Common Good in Pope Francis’s Teaching and Its Implications for Economic Thought: A Meaning Clusters Approach

Religions
This article examines Pope Francis’s concept of the common good and its implications for economic thought, addressing the need for a richer evaluative framework than those centred on public goods or efficiency-based welfare.
Anna Horodecka, Andrzej J. Żuk
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The Scales Integral to Ecology: Hierarchies in Laudato Si’ and Christian Ecological Ethics

Religions, 2019
Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ advocates for an “ecological conversion” to the ideal of “integral ecology”. In so doing, it offers insights into different scales of moral attention, resonating with sophisticated thinking ...
Kevin J. O’Brien
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Inspirations Of Pope Francis’ Concept Of Integral Ecology

Seminare, 2022
This article presents the cultural ideas as well as philosophical, social and scientific theories that shaped the concept of integral ecology presented by Pope Francis in his encyclical Laudato Si’.
Ryszard F. Sadowski
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The human gut microbiome across the life course

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Despite significant individual variation and continuous change throughout life, the human gut microbiome follows some life stage‐specific trends. This article provides a brief overview of how gut microbiome composition shifts across different phases of life. Created in BioRender. Özkurt, E. (2026) https://BioRender.com/8q4nrnc.
Alise J. Ponsero, Basak Bahcivanci, Antonietta Hayhoe, Animesh Acharjee, Ezgi Özkurt   +4 more
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Eco-Spirituality in Light of the Sensus Fidelium? The Universal Destination of Goods and Catholic Social Teaching from an Eco-Theological Standpoint

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The principle of the universal destination of goods remains anthropocentric and therefore insufficient to protect the whole of creation. Bringing Thomas Berry’s eco-spirituality into dialogue with the sensus fidelium and John Henry Newman’s account of ...
Erica Laurenti Serra
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From mice to humans—divergent strategies for intestinal homeostasis and regeneration

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Recent advances such as organoid genome editing, xenotransplantation, imaging, and whole‐genome sequencing have enabled direct studies of human intestinal stem cells (ISCs). These studies reveal species‐specific features, including slower ISC proliferation, distinct injury responses, slower somatic mutation accumulation in humans, and an inverse ...
Keiko Ishikawa, Shinya Sugimoto, Toshiro Sato   +2 more
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