Daniel Castillo is director of the Master of Theological Studies Program at Loyola University Maryland. His first book, An Ecological Theology of Liberation: Salvation and Political Ecology (Orbis Books) was awarded College Theology Society's "Best Book in Theology" award in 2020. He is currently working on a second monograph entitled, Confronting the Age of Cain: Christian Faith in the 'Anthropocene.' He lives in Baltimore with his family.
The invitation of Laudato Si' is not only to identify the closeness of the relationship between the cries of the Earth and the poor, but also to discern how persons and communities of faith can and are giving of their lives in response to the cries.
