***** Awareness of the poor—so absent from most of what we read and hear all day—permeates the encyclical from start to finish. The earth itself is celebrated as “among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor.” Here the pope has come into the fullness of his name—Francis. So simple a name, and yet rejected by every pope until now. Francis encyclical on the environment.

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