| Sumario: | This context concerns a critique of integral ecology from Willis Jenkins regarding the phrase "cry of the Earth" and its entailments. As Barrett Turner puts it, "Francis assumes that social doctrine is always being worked out in conversation with social realities and, thus, is capable of further elaboration and development."[51] Francis's pejorative invocations of "pragmatism" notwithstanding, he not only shares with pragmatism a common link to liberation theology; he also consistently emphasizes the lived, concrete meaning of faith, for example, "reality is more important than ideas." This is the subtext to an article from Willis Jenkins, "The Mysterious Silence of Mother Earth in I Laudato si' i ", which uses the crying-Earth metaphor to venture a measured critique of integral ecology.[12] As Jenkins puts it, "Earth's voice - as mother, sister, or any sort of kin - seems silent in crucial loci of the encyclical's argument."[13] For Jenkins, Earth's silence bespeaks important omissions. Regarding liberation theology, the Argentine Jorge Bergoglio (Pope Francis) has never identified too overtly with the strains of liberation theology made famous in Medellín, and he took care as Archbishop in Buenos Aires to thread a needle among factions that included both advocates and opponents of liberation theology.
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