Ecología y fraternidad global

Resumo

We know that the present Pope, in adopting the name of Francis, wished not only to commemorate the patron saint of Italy, but above all to put forward a programme of renewal for the Church and for the world. The encyclical Laudato Si’ confirms this for any that were still in doubt. Drawing inspiration from the saint whom Pope John Paul II proclaimed as patron of ecology, the Holy Father takes up the tradition of the Franciscan school to propose once more to all a new relation with the creatures of our ‘common home’. The present article seeks to revisit the essential elements of Franciscan ecology that prove to be of such present relevance.