Are you making progress in your reading of Laudato Si, the Pope’s encyclical on “The Care of Our Common Home?” I am working through it. Of course, we all read with our own perspective. For me, Pope Francis is trying to extend a moral sense of vision to us all. He affirms the inherent dignity of all creation due to each creature and all creation bearing an imprint of its Creator. Pope Francis references this latter point when he says that, “The Franciscan saint [Bonaventure] teaches us that each creature bears in itself a specifically Trinitarian structure, so real that it could be readily contemplated if only the human gaze were not so partial, dark and fragile.” (no. 239) The Holy Father calls us to follow the example of St. Bonaventure in terms of contemplation, coming to “discover God in all things.” (no. 233) Continue reading →