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We have a dream for the planet
As part of a series of Autumn lectures inspired by Pope Francis’s Let Us Dream, the great London church of St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square invited me to speak on the topic of “Our dream for the planet” on October 25th. The other panelists were Bishop Nicholas Holtam, until recently the Church of England’s lead bishop on the environment and Dr Emily Grossman, a climate scientist with Extinction Rebellion. Watch it here. Or read on for the text of my address.
Pope Francis tells a new story
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.