2) Home time: Laudato si’ and integral ecology

Laudato si’ has been hailed by progressives for taking the urgency of the environmental crisis seriously, and for its injunction to believe the scientists. Its subtitle declares that we ought to care for “our common home,” the earth. Such lovely words, care and home, denote intimacy and the everyday. The problem of environmental degradation is a domestic one. It hits home, so to speak. And this home is womanly. Francis tells us, “our common home is like our sister with whom we share our life,...