Thank you, Staff of NCR!
It is not a stretch to see ourselves in a time no less critical and threatening than the Biblical Flood, which alerted Noah to act in interests of saving, not only humankind, but all the creatures of nature on whom humankind depends.
In many ways the threat today is perhaps even more terminal, for the threats coming from human insensitivity and unrepentant passion to exploit nature in every conceivable way to extract personal profit are with mindless disregard for the Holy Other, and are global. Nature is Primary Sacrament, God's Sacred Place, universal "church".
We, as a global people, need to get with the sacred sense of universal belonging that characterizes the Papacy of Pope Francis. Now.