Vatican Radio to broadcast encyclical

(ANSA) - Vatican City, August 6 - Vatican Radio said Thursday it plans to broadcast a 14-episode adaptation of Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment which was published in June this year.
    Vatican Radio will broadcast the encyclical every evening at 18:30 beginning Monday, August 10 until Sunday, August 23.
    The idea is for blind people to be able to hear it.
    The encyclical's title Laudato Sii (Be Praised, in Latin) is taken from the religious song Canticle of the Creatures written by St. Francis of Assisi. The pope chose to take the name of this saint devoted to nature, animals and the poor, and whom Pope John Paul II declared the patron saint of ecology.
    Environmental concerns have been central to Francis' papacy from the beginning, and were also an important theme when he was archbishop in Buenos Aires, where he took up the cause against deforestation in the Amazon.
    The 14 programmes will include a reading of the encyclical enriched by voices and sounds from nature. The cycle was produced by Vatican Radio and adapted and directed by Mara Miceli with readings by Francesca Rossiello and Gaetano Lizio.