CATHOLIC GROUPS LAUNCH NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO ENCOURAGE CARE FOR CREATION AT CLIMATE CONFERENCE
CAMPAIGN FOCUSES ON SEVEN SECTORS OVER SEVEN YEARS: WE’RE ALL PART OF GOD’S PLAN(ET)
July 14, 2021
CAMPAIGN FOCUSES ON SEVEN SECTORS OVER SEVEN YEARS: WE’RE ALL PART OF GOD’S PLAN(ET)
Creighton University and Catholic Climate Covenant are co-sponsoring a national conference aimed at emboldening Catholics to do more to combat climate change.
This year, Laudato Si’ Week reminded me of Christian hope, “for we know that things can change.” (13)
Cardinal Peter Turkson, Prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, has announced the creation of a Laudato Si’ Action Platform.
The Catholic Climate Covenant and Creighton University today announced registration has opened for the July 13-15, 2021 virtual LSUS conference: “Laudato Si’and the U.S. Catholic Church: A Conference Series on Our Common Home.”
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.
In Kenya, our CYNESA (Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa) team has been trying to do just that: working to implement two Laudato Si-inspired projects.
Today, President Biden convened 40 world leaders to reinvigorate American leadership and global cooperation to accelerate the solutions the world needs to meet the epic challenge of climate change.
Last summer, at the height of the pandemic and economic uncertainty, the heart-wrenching killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police office sworn to protect and serve sparked national protests, civil unrest and a national reckoning with racism that was a long time coming.
When I walk alongside the river, I notice ducklings drifting by, decaying piles of invasive wintercreeper vines, amur honeysuckle peeking through scatterings of gravel pebbles, and families gathered for picnic lunches.