Last month in this column [1] Fred Kammer, SJ, treated the four Jesuit universal preferences for the future of our ministries, noting that “preferences” are more inclusive than that other oft-used term “priorities,” which tend to exclude more than they include.
Fourteen times in his 2015 Encyclical Laudato Si' [2] Pope Francis emphasizes the (inter)connectedness of everything.
How can we go about growing in our living this mission of connectedness? We might first ask ourselves in a kind of Ignatian examen “How am I, how are we part of the problem of disconnects?”