The ecology of Pope Francis

Abstract

Bruno Latour was deeply moved by the prophetic openness of Laudato si’ (LS). In an interview with Antonio Spadaro, SJ, in La Civiltà Cattolica he says:

On a whole range of topics, the encyclical offered an unhoped for opportunity to ensure some very important issues of theology and communication were better understood. Until that moment, reflection on Nature during the last three centuries had ignored the insights of Christian spirituality that the new ecological situation needed. This appealed to me. The text interested my ecological friends, the exponents of the so called “natural sciences”, in a way that clearly opened a new dialogue that had become impossible, perhaps since the 17th century. [extract]