On September 24, 2025, from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. (Rome time), Prof. Martín Carbajo will take part in an online forum titled "
St. Francis of Assisi: The Spiritual, Ecological, and Community Vision in His Life and Work." The event is organized by the
Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace (EICSP), a Scottish charity (SC038996). Other speakers at the forum will include Prof. Donna Trembinski, Prof. Darleen Pryds, and Fr.
Murray Bodo, OFM.
During the event, Prof. Carbajo will give a talk entitled: "Singing with Creation: A Franciscan Challenge to Today’s Economy."
He will highlight the unsustainability of the current economic system, which is driven by unbridled consumerism and the pursuit of endless growth, an impossibility on a world with finite resources.
St. Francis’ Canticle of the Creatures serves as a profound critique of an economic system that commodifies every aspect of reality. It invites us to shift from a paradigm of domination to one of fraternity, from a world driven by greed to one animated by gratitude and care.
Creatures are not mere objects for economic gain, but brothers and sisters, who “bear a likeness of God” and join humanity in a common song of praise. Each of them has a face and a role in the cosmic web of life.
