b'ConclusionAt the end of the open dialogue that defi nes Laudato si, Pope Francis offers two prayersone for the earth itself with all who believe in God, and another specifi cally for Christians to pray in unity with creation. In a spirit of collaboration and prayer, people of faith and goodwill are thus invited to take up the common work to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor (LS 49, italics in original), to care for our common home, and to honor the opening words of the encyclical, Laudato si, mi Signore, Praise be to you, my Lord.This article is an excerpt from Laudato si:Walter E. Grazer teaches in the Catholic Continuity, Change, and Challenge byStudies Program at Georgetown Walter E. Grazer, in All Creation Is Connected,University, focusing on ecology and edited by Daniel R. DiLeo (Winona, MN:Catholic social thought. Grazer holds a Anselm Academic 2018), 3143. CopyrightBA in philosophy, an MA in international2018 by Anselm Academic. All rightsrelations, and an MSW in social work.reserved. www.anselmacademic.org1. For more on this, see Daniel R. DiLeo, Papal Authority andClimate Change: Preparing for Pope Francis Encyclical, U.S. Catholic, May 20, 2015, http:// www.uscatholic.org/articles/201505/papal-authority-and-climate-change-preparing-pope-francis-encyclical-30117.2. Pope Francis published the encyclical Lumen fi dei in 2013. That document, however, was largely authored by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, and did not receive nearly as much public attention as La udato si.3. Pope Francis, Homily of Pope Francis: Chrism Mass, March 28, 2013, https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2013/documents/papa-francesco_20130328_messa-crismale.html.14 AspireVolume 1//Winter 2020 Subscribe today!smp.org/aspire'