Learning the Language of Creation: Catholic Social Teaching and Integral Ecology

A vision for realizing the promise of integral ecology and putting it into practice.

In his landmark encyclical on care for creation, Laudato Si’, Pope Francis popularized the idea of integral ecology by connecting contemporary ecological concerns and church teachings on creation addressed by Catholic Social Thought. In Learning the Language of Creation, Franciscan Sister Damien Marie Savino, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences, frames integral ecology as ...