Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si': On care for our common home, takes its title from a prayer composed by his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi. Laudato si means "praise be to you." In The Canticle of the Sun, St. Francis recounts the virtues of the natural world: the heavenly bodies, water and fire, and the earth itself, in which he sees the divine reflected. He writes: Praise be to You, my Lord, for Brothers Wind and Air, cloudy and serene, in all weather's moods, through ...
Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si': On care for our common home, takes its title from a prayer composed by his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi. Laudato si means "praise be to you." In The Canticle of the Sun, St. Francis recounts the virtues of the natural world: the heavenly bodies, water and fire, and the earth itself, in which he sees the divine reflected. He writes: Praise be to You, my Lord, for Brothers Wind and Air, cloudy and serene, in all weather's moods, through ...
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