Our friends over at The Stream appear to have read Pope Francis' encyclical, Laudato Si', more carefully than some premature pundits. They point out "11 Things You Probably Won't Hear about Pope Francis' Encyclical." Two of those are particularly relevant to our concerns here:
(1) Creation has a Creator, and is more than just "nature-plus-evolution":
(75) A spirituality which forgets God as all-powerful and Creator is not acceptable. That is how we end up worshipping earthly powers, or ourse...
Published on June 19, 2015 16:37