News Items

July 2, 2015
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Sufi teacher and author
Huffington Post

“The ecological crisis is essentially a spiritual problem.” These words spoken by an Eastern Orthodox theologian, Metropolitan John Zizioulas, at the Vatican news conference on the papal encyclical are profoundly important. The release of the encyclical was soon followed by a new study that...

July 1, 2015
Vatican Information Service

Vatican City (VIS) – This morning a press conference was held in the Holy See Press Office to present the high-level Conference “People and planet first: the imperative to change course” (Rome, Augustinianum, 2-3 July) organised by the Pontifical Council “Justice and Peace” and CIDSE, an international network of Catholic non-governmental...

By Mike Bell
Deep Time Journey
July 1, 2015
http://www.deeptimejourney.org/resource/pope-francis-laudato-si-and-the-new-consciousness/

June 29, 2015
By Alex Muyebe, S.J., and Peter Henriot, S.J.
Irish Missionary Union

It was a very tall and very full tree, branches thick and thin.  Ideal for cutting down to cook many meals and to warm many huts.  But over the years, no one touched it, despite trees all around it having been cut down and the landscape left quite barren.