“There Are No Unsacred Places” — Wendell Berry Dies at 92 on the Eve of the Season of Creation

He died Monday at his farm above the Kentucky River, hours before Pope Leo XIV opened the season with a Mass at Castel Gandolfo. The Baptist farmer spent six decades readying the Catholic imagination for Laudato Si’.

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Wendell Berry died Monday at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky. He was 92.

For sixty-one years he farmed the same hillside above the…