Author
Mary Taylor
Mary Taylor is a founding member of the Laudato Si’ Institute of the Archdiocese of Granada, Spain. She writes and runs the nonprofit Pax in Terra with her husband from their farm in Connecticut.
Bibliography
Articles in Communio
5 Articles
Three Rivers: Memory as Mediation and Mission in Purgatorio and Paradiso
Appears in Memory · Summer 2023 · Vol. 50, No. 2
“God is the ‘eternal fountain,’ and what he graciously imparts does not remain stagnant but is joyously communicated—mediated—to others, as communication becomes communion.”
“The Sparkling of the Holy Ghost”: The Metaphysics of Nature and Grace in Dante’s Paradiso
Appears in Nature in Theology · Fall-Winter 2019 · Vol. 46, no. 3-4
“Being’s face manifested in the smile has an ontological depth at the same time that it reveals personal, concrete love.”
Ecology on One’s Knees: Reading Laudato Si’
Appears in Integral Ecology · Winter 2015 · Vol. 42, No. 4
Read in a trinitarian key, Laudato si’ is a song, a hymn to the Creator God.
“Faith Is Obvious”: The Apologetics of Creation
Appears in Apologetics · Spring 2014 · Vol. 41, No. 1
“One could say that the child—both in his action, and his reception by the world—is the continual reminder and symbol that creation is a gift.”
A Deeper Ecology: A Catholic Vision of the Person in Nature
Appears in Toward a Human Ecology Person Life Nature · Winter 2011 · Vol. 38, No. 4
"What is needed . . . is a 'catholic' ecology . . . : the recognition of a common desire for beauty and meaning, . . . and the apprehension that the participation of others is necessary for a common good that is deeper that the co-incidence of our private goods or our ideology."