Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: P ope Francis's ecological muse in his 2015 encyclical on climate change and inequal-ity is also his namesake.The pope begins his letter with lines from a canticle attributed to the long departed friar from Assisi.The saint is the first to evoke our human sisterhood with the feminized figure of our planet.1 But the pope's subsequent admonishments are contemporary, and his own: "This sister now cries out to us because of
Source: Environmental Humanities
Author: Beatrice Marovich
Institution: Hanover College
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2566734113