“Young love needs to keep dancing towards the future with immense hope… Love needs time and space; everything else is secondary.”
–Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia
I will always wonder if in 2011, when I was living briefly in Argentina, and Jorge Bergoglio was the Cardinal of Buenos Aires known for humbly taking public transit, we might’ve been squished together in the same subte ride.
I will miss the clarity with which he spoke out against treating people and planet as disposable: “We treat affective relationships the way we treat material objects and the environment: everything is disposable; everyone uses and throws away, takes and breaks, exploits and squeezes to the last drop. Then, goodbye.”
His Laudato Si encyclical and Amoris Laetitia exhortation were both very influential writings on me. Whether it’s your family or the entire planet, macro or micro, we belong to each other.
