Margaret Felice

What I’m into, May/June 2015

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It’s summer! Which means time for reading and playing outside. First, books: Gilead: A Novel I had heard Marilynne Robinson’s praises sung by my literary-minded friends for years and finally got into her best-known trilogy during the past months. This book has a daring construct – all the form of a letter written from anContinue reading >>

Why was I excited for the papal encyclical? The challenge of Laudato Si

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The first point at which I thought the Pope might be laughing at me was paragraph 55. 55. Some countries are gradually making significant progress, developing more effective controls and working to combat corruption. People may well have a growing ecological sensitivity but it has not succeeded in changing their harmful habits of consumption which,Continue reading >>

What the Pope’s encyclical is really about

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I’ll be spending the morning reading the highly anticipated papal encyclical Laudato Si today and hope to be sharing more in this space and on Facebook and Twitter. Edited to add: some of my favorite quotes and commentaries are compiled on Storify. Many pundits have been saying that the Pope’s encyclical Laudato si, which takesContinue reading >>