The film’s premiere at the Vatican was specially planned for 4 October 2022, to coincide with an event earlier in the day marking the Holy See’s officially joining the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), adopted in 1992, and the Paris Agreement signed in 2015. In his remarks, Cardinal Pietro Parolin spoke about how both moments were inspired by the life and spirituality of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Walking home from the event, humming the Salve Sancte Pater, I thought about how Francis has moved from his Tomb to YouTube, as a communis domus lux, forma minorum…light of our common home, model for all of us lesser brothers and sisters.