The point is how do you deal with those aspects?” He’s good, this guy. At the same time you also have negative aspects. Every relationship among humans and the earth is not only connotated with positive aspects. You cannot think that there is an idillic way of being in a relationship with someone. with your brothers and sisters, normally you fight. but the point is, brotherhood is not a simple relationship. He includes even death” he says.“Did saint Francis say anything specifically about rodents?”I hear myself say. “Would Saint Francis include brother rat?” I ask “Sister Boll Weevil, Uncle Blackbird who devours 2% of the North Dakota sunflower crop?”. If you read his poems you find the expressions ‘Sister Water’, ‘Brother Sun’, ‘Sister Moon’.” “Saint Francis began a new relationship between nature and humanity. “Each creature has its own purpose” he writes “none is superfluous." He describes how Saint Francis would burst into song when he gazed at the sun, the moon or the smallest of animals. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a copy of Francis’s rather beautiful and cyclical ‘On Care For Our Common Home’. “So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants.
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