†8th Worker

Pope Francis adds an eighth work of mercy to care for our common home, first, as a spiritual work—"gratefully contemplating God’s world” (Laudato Si', 214) which “allows us to discover in each thing a teaching which God wishes to hand on to us” (ibid., 85), second, as a corporal work—“simple daily gestures which break with the logic of violence, exploitation and selfishness... every action that seeks to build a better world” (ibid., 230-31).