St. Francis

a dark old looking painting of a man wearing brown clothing, including a brown hood, looking up at a grey sky, holding a skull

After St. Francis Sunday

The congregation I attend, like many others in North America, I imagine, did it up well. This past St. Francis Sunday, or what I took to be that Sunday, we sang many of the Church’s great creation hymns robustly andRead More →

Celebrating St. Francis’ Day, October 4, 2022: A Summary of Pope Francis’ Epochal Encyclical Laudato Si’ by a Consummate Theological Interpreter

For some time, I have considered ours to be the golden age of ecological theology and Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’, to be perhaps the best single expression of this golden age. I have also long respected the contributionsRead More →