Sister Mother Earth

This book introduces the Franciscan vision of ecology which, in many respects, seems to have inspired Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’.

Taking an integral and inclusive view of ecology, it analyzes today’s global ethical challenges in the light of the experience of Francis of Assisi and the philosophical and theological reflection of the Franciscan tradition. It calls us to move beyond the technocratic paradigm and the throwaway culture that put well-having ahead of well-being and break the ties that bind us to creatures.

The Franciscan school put St. Francis’s intuitions into philosophical and theological terms, laying the foundations of a fraternal and cordial ecology. Translated from the Spanish original, Ecología franciscana: raíces de la Laudato Si’.