Pope Francis’s important ecology lesson

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By Stephen Bede Scharper
Toronto Star
June 21, 2015

Twenty years ago, I taught a course on religion and the environment at the University of Notre Dame.

When people heard this, they would often scrunch up their faces and ask, “What does faith have to do with ecology?”

In the past few years, teaching a similar course at the University of Toronto, this question is posed far less often, and the faces are far less scrunched.