Inspired by the words and actions of the Pope, informed by recent events, our regular contributor writes an open letter to him, suggesting a leap of imagination After reading your encyclical Laudato si’ I had a dream. Before I tell you about it, may I thank you on behalf of millions who are finding new hope in your redeeming leadership. You are parting the veils for us, allowing us glimpses into the meaning of mystery, liberating us by the beauty of your vision. Like Plato and St Thomas Aquinas before you, your word for this way of seeing and of being is “magnanimous” – the bigness of God in whose image our hearts were first created. “Let yours be great souls,” you wrote. Because of their failure of imagination, small souls struggle to comprehend a gre