Replacing a Culture of Disposability With One of Disponibilidad: An Ecclesiological Proposal for a World in Peril

What is it about?

This article argues that the current pontificate insightfully provides twin patrimonies to the Christian world in a new context: the heritage of Ignatian spirituality and an attunement to voices of the Global South. Both lead to the conclusion that the 'throw-away culture' of disposability, where things are treated like trash, and people are treated like things, can be counterbalanced by a robust commitment to radical disponibilidad or availability. The theological contours of such a re-calibrated ecclesiology are explored, especially in the face of crises, ecological and otherwise, metastasizing around the planet today.

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