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Mark’s Gospel passage, read on a recent weekend, featured an account of Jesus trumpeting a single, stand-alone, and rare word to cure a deaf person – EPHPHATHA.

As we tentatively emerge from the Covid pandemic, many of us are starting to think about new routines and new projects we’d like to begin, and thankfully we are happy to announce new funding that may help.

As we celebrate this Season of Creation, we may hear about the idea of an eco-conversion, and the Catholic Climate Covenant’s 2021 Feast of St. Francis Program can help us on this journey. But what is eco-conversion?

Matter matters.

In his apostolic exhortation Christus Vivit, Pope Francis encourages young Catholics to be “the protagonists of change.”

In Catholic parishes and organizations around the country, young people are bringing their passions and gifts to the table in efforts to activate their communities for climate justice.

“Laudato Si’ and the U.S. Catholic Church: A Conference Series on Our Common Home” kicked off its 2021 gathering on July 13, 2021 with the Opening Keynote with Cardinal Cupich and Dr. Maureen Day: “A Bold Embrace of Laudato Si’.”

Cardinal Peter Turkson, Prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, has announced the creation of a Laudato Si’ Action Platform.

This passage from Laudato Si’ makes me think of one of the best examples of the interdependence of all living creatures and at the same time a successful strategy for species and ecosystem protection: the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park.