Deforestation, pollution, overfishing and the illegal wildlife trade, together with climate change, “are pushing species populations to the edge.”
Laudato Si’
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
October surprise: could Pope Francis win the Nobel Peace Prize?
This is the third year that the pope has been considered a strong contender for the prize, though he remains a long shot.
Posted inFaith, Poetry
If the environmental encyclical didn’t change your heart or mind, maybe poetry can.
Like Pope Francis, Oliver’s poetry invites readers to let the distractions of our modern, constant motion, hyper-stimulated world fall away from time to time, to enter into that quiet place of contemplation and gratitude that waits in the world all around us.
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Top Ten Takeaways from ‘Laudato Si’’
Pope Francis’ revolutionary new encyclical calls for a “broad cultural revolution” to confront the environmental crisis. “Laudato Si” is also quite lengthy.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The Ecological Examen: Entering a new world of Ignatian contemplation
These same spiritual tools can be used to cultivate ecological sensitivity and a heightened awareness of God’s immanence in the natural world.