Pope Francis’ Encyclical: Hearing the Cry of the Earth

June 19, 2015
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Huffington Post

The Earth “now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her.” So begins Pope Francis in his powerful and long-awaited encyclical on ecology. “The earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor.”