In this cover article for The Tablet (6 November 2021) I describe how Pope Francis’s groundbreaking 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’ allowed humanity to re-imagine their place in creation, beyond anthropocentrism yet with a vital mission to play as co-creators with God, endowed with a special responsibility to care for the earth. I speculate that Erich Pryzwara SJ and his formidable 1932 work Analogia Entis may have helped Francis perform this shift.