My parish started its Adult Sunday School (taught by Dominican friars) this past weekend, and we kicked off the semester with a discussion of the Pope’s encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si. I’m not about to summarize the whole encyclical or even the whole class, but I am pleased to tell you that, if you’re building up a Laudato Si mixtape, I have a song to recommend. One of the themes of our discussion was what Pope Francis terms “the technocratic paradigm”... Read more