June 26, 2015

  • Nuns on the Bus tour makes a stop in Grand Rapids, Mich., June, 2012. (Orlanda Leyba, OP, Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids, Michigan)

This story appears in the Laudato Si' encyclical feature series. View the full series.

"Living our vocation to be protectors of God's handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience."

- Pope Francis, from "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home" (Chapter 6, Section III, Paragraph 217), as selected by Orlanda Leyba, OP, Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids, Michigan