The Pope’s “dialectical approach to reality is a criterion of action for Francis, a fundamental element for pastoral discernment: not to annul one dialectical pole in favor of the other, but to find a superior solution that does not lose the energy and strength of the elements that are in opposition,” Father Antonio Spadaro, SJ, said in his commentary on Querida Amazonia, the Pope’s post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the Amazon.