April 26, 2018

Crucifixes are seen near a closed limestone mine near Belapatfalva, Hungary. (CNS / EPA / Zsolt Czegledi)

"How in our day can we understand cosmic redemption? At a time of advancing ecological devastation, what would it mean to rediscover this biblical sense of the natural world groaning, hoping, waiting for liberation?"

—St. Joseph Sr. Elizabeth Johnson in Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril