Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos When, in the final chapter of his much-discussed encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis calls for an ecological education, this might seem to be an afterthought ...

Pope Francis' Laudato Si' offers a contemporary vision of the whole world being wrapped up in, and expressive of, God's unmerited, ongoing offer of love. Paul Melley offers his own musical compostion ...

The reality of Francis’ politics is more complicated: Laudato Si still advocates against abortion and stem-cell research, and the pope has not changed official Vatican policy toward gay people ...