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Session #8 of the Laudato Si' and the U.S. Catholic Church focuses on the Laudato Si' Action Platform's goal of “Response to the Cry of the Earth” which “s a call to protect our common home for the wellbeing of all, as we equitably address the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and ecological sustainability.” Panelists included: Daniel R. DiLeo, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of the Justice and Peace Studies Program at Creighton University; Carlos J. Martinez, PhD, Earth Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research; Deacon Kent Ferris, OFS, Director of Social Action and Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Davenport, IA.
Streamed live on Jul 25, 2023.
Session #7 of the Laudato Si' and the U.S. Catholic Church focuses on the Laudato Si' Action Platform's goal of “Community Resilience Empowerment,” which “envisages a synodal journey of community engagement and participatory action at various levels.” Panelists included: Rev. John Baumann, SJ, Director of Faith in Action International and Co-founder of Faith in Action, formerly PICO; Rev. Teña Nock, Co-chair for the Care for Creation Committee within HOPE; Dwayne David Paul, MA, Catholic educator, theologian, and cofounder of Religion in Revolt.
Session #6 of the Laudato Si' and the U.S. Catholic Church focuses on the Laudato Si' Action Platform's goal of “Ecological Spirituality,” which “springs from a profound ecological conversion and helps us to 'discover God in all things', both in the beauty of creation and in the sighs of the sick and the groans of the afflicted, aware that the life of the spirit is not dissociated from worldly realities.” Panelists included: Sister Mary Beth Ingham, CSJ, PhD, General Superior, Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange; Diana Marin, MDiv, Program Manager, Young Adult Mobilization at Catholic Climate Covenant; Nicholas Collura, MDiv, Chaplain and Spiritual Director.
Session #5 of the Laudato Si' and the U.S. Catholic Church focuses on the Laudato Si' Action Platform's goal of “Ecological Education,”which aims to “re-think and re-design curricular and institutional reform in the spirit of integral ecology in order to foster ecological awareness and transformative action.” Panelists included: Erin M. Brigham, PhD, Executive Director of the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition and affiliate faculty in the department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco; Kate McGarey-Vase, Theology and Humanities Teacher at Salpointe Catholic High School (Tucson, AZ); Sage Lenier, Founder and Executive Director of Sustainable & Just Future.
Session #3 of the Laudato Si' and the U.S. Catholic Church conference focused on how more than 130 years of Catholic social teaching directly challenges core pillars of mainstream capitalism which celebrates unbridled exploitation of non-human nature and externalizes ecological costs like pollution from business calculations. Panelists shared how such a perspective is incongruent with the Laudato Si' Action Platform's goal of “Ecological Economics” and fidelity to Catholic social teaching. Presenters included Elizabeth Garlow, Nathan Schneider, and Michael Partis. The facilitator was Dan DiLeo.
Session #2 of the Laudato Si' and the U.S. Catholic Church Conference focused on the Laudato Si’ Action Platform’s goal #1: “Response to the Cry of the Poor” which “is a call to protect our common home for the wellbeing of all, as we equitably address the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and ecological sustainability.” Presenters included Daniel P. Castillo, Ector Olivares, Barbara Johnson, and Beth Gutzler. The facilitator was Diana Marin.
Rebel Pope: Ten Years of Hope is an update to the scripted tale that chronicles the ascent of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to become Pope Francis during one of the most painful periods in Argentine history. His commitment to speak up on issues of climate change have made him a rebel with a noble cause. New interviews in this film include comments by Mary Evelyn Tucker.
In 2015, Pope Francis wrote Laudato Si’ (The Letter); an encyclical letter about the environmental crisis to every single person in the world. A few years later, four voices that have gone unheard in global conversations have been invited to an unprecedented dialogue with the Pope. Hailing from Senegal, the Amazon, India, and Hawai’i, they bring perspective and solutions from the poor, the indigenous, the youth, and wildlife into a conversation with Pope Francis himself. This documentary follows their journey to Rome and the extraordinary experiences that took place there, and is packed with powerfully moving personal stories alongside the latest information about the planetary crisis and the toll it’s taking on nature and people. Learn more about the protagonists and how you can take action here. “The Letter is a remarkable film that brings together people from different cultures and backgrounds to advocate for ecojustice in the spirit of Laudato Si’. It should be seen in religious and educational institutions far and wide. The film is one of the most compelling reasons why the Laudato Si’ movement needs to be supported and expanded.” ~Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
In Laudato Si', Pope Francis has called for an ecological spirituality that embraces ecological justice. This talk will explore such a spirituality within the context of an “integral ecology” that brings together people and planet. Up to the present, secular environmentalism has been a dominant force in many academic departments and in the larger environmental movement. This form of environmentalism focuses on science and policy along with economic and technological solutions. However, there is a need for a broader ecospirituality and ecojustice that highlights values, ethics, and spiritual perspectives. This is what Jesuit colleges, universities, and secondary schools can contribute at this critical moment in our planetary history. View the slides for this presentation here.
This panel discusses their view on the second new economic question posed by His Holiness Pope Francis: “What place does the current economic system give to uselessness, that is, to beauty?” Panelists include Rob Johnson, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Doris Sommer, and John Fullerton.
Climate change and ecological harm disproportionately injure poor, vulnerable, and marginalized persons and communities—especially those of color. Learn from experts in the field as we consider how to “hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” and integrate environmental justice into the U.S. Catholic embrace of Laudato Si’. Part of Laudato Si’ and the U.S. Catholic Church: A Conference Series on Our Common Home.
Pope Francis announces his 7-year, 7-goal action platform for Laudato Si'. In Italian with English subtitles.
Laudato Si’ Special Anniversary Year Closing Praying Gathering + Missionary Sending. This event was streamed live on May 23, 2021.
Eco-spirituality brings hope to a troubled world. Please join us for an opportunity to share in the fruitfulness of the work of Sowing Hope for the Planet. In this session, we will journey with men and women religious engaged in promoting Laudato Si'. We will celebrate stories of ecological conversion, both personal and communal. Examples of integrating conscious prayer and sacred action will be shared. This event was part of Laudato Si' Week 2021.
An online dialogue to raise awareness about the role of energy and fossil fuels in the crisis of our common home, including health impacts, while bringing attention to the Vatican’s divestment guidelines and the largest faith and Catholic divestment commitment to date. The panel will encourage the audience to consider the importance of ethical investment guidelines and invite them to join LSAP to guide their path. Streamed live on May 19, 2021.
Dr. Tucker recalls the extraordinary time when the Earth Charter was drafted and how exciting it was when the Earth Charter principles and the specifics of world religions were synergizing. She observes that the consultation and drafting process identified some of the common values across cultures and religions, despite the differences, including different cultural expressions of ethics. For her, the Earth Charter document represents one of the most integrated visions for the way forward, breaking disciplinary silos and bringing together the dimensions of cosmology, ecology, justice, democracy, and peace. Dr. Tucker reflects on the notion of the “Earth Community,” and she cites present-day examples to demonstrate how “interdependence” leads to “responsibility.” Reflecting on Pope Francis’ two latest encyclicals, as clear and wonderful contributions to our current times, Dr. Tucker concludes that they can be seen as continuity with and further development of the Earth Charter.
This brief video gived an overview of the objectives and activities of the two-day International Conference “Saving our common home and the future of life on Earth,” which took place in Vatican City, July 5-6, 2018, hosted by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
In Part 2 of “The Cry of the Earth: How Pope Francis Calls Us to the Science Faith, and Action of Saving Our Common Home”, St. Vincent (co-sponsored by St. Ignatius Catholic Community) presents Dr. John Haught of Georgetown University. Dr. Haught examines, through the lens of Pope Francis's Laudato Si, the broken connection between humans and nature that has been sanctioned by the academically endorsed suspicion that the universe has no point, no meaning, no purpose. With the help of the works of scientifically informed religious thinkers, such as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Alfred North Whitehead this presentation explores Pope Francis’s courageous affirmation, in Laudato Si’, that the universe does indeed have a purpose, namely, that of bringing about the self-justifying value of beauty.