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    2025 Mass for the Season of Creation at St. Thomas the Apostle

    posted on June 13, 2025

    St. Thomas the Apostle in Fortville, Indiana has been selected by the Archdiocese of Indianapolis to host the Season of Creation Mass on Thursday, September 4, 2025 at 6pm. Join St. Thomas parishioners and the community for a reception after Mass. Archbishop Charles C. Thompson will celebrate the Mass. Be sure to stop by and …

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    Category: News, Spotlight

    St. Bartholomew Catholic Church hosts the 2024 Mass for the Season of Creation

    posted on September 27, 2024

    This Tuesday, St. Bartholomew Catholic Church in Columbus, Indiana hosted the Archdiocesan Mass for the Season of Creation. Before the Mass presided by Archbishop Thompson, the combined choirs of St. Bartholomew including youth and members of neighboring Christian congregations presented a musical selection with themes of hope and action. After the Mass, the parish’s Care …

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    Category: News

    ArchIndy Parishes to Participate in Vatican Pilot Program

    posted on May 11, 2023

    This summer, parishes from around the Archdiocese of Indianapolis will be eligible to participate in a pilot program through the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. The program will be implemented locally by the IU Environmental Resilience Institute McKinney Climate Fellow Victoria Seest with support from Mundell & Associates, a local environmental consulting firm. …

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    Category: News

    Vatican names John Mundell, local environmental champion, as Director of Laudato Si’ Action Platform.

    posted on September 4, 2022

    This July, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development announced ArchIndy Creation Care Commission member John Mundell as the new Director of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform.

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    “Plarning” at the National Catholic Youth Conference

    posted on December 6, 2021

    In mid November, over 10,000 high school youth, priests, youth ministers, and chaperones descended on downtown Indianapolis, Indiana for the National Catholic Youth Conference 2021 (NCYC). Despite the limited number of attendees due to COVID-19 precautions, the Service Area of the “Village” was crawling with teens eager to spend some time putting their faith into …

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    Season of Creation Customizable and Ready to Distribute Toolkits

    posted on August 31, 2021

    During the Season of Creation (Sept 1 – Oct 4 each year), the Christian community celebrates joins together to pray and act to protect our common home. The season is celebrated by tens of thousands of Christians around the world annually (https://seasonofcreation.org) with encouragement from leaders of other faith traditions. The Creation Care Ministry of …

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    Category: News

    Commission Members present at ICC’s Laudato Si’ Social Justice Series

    posted on August 19, 2021

    ArchIndy Creation Care Commission Members Sarah Mundell and Sister Sheila Marie Fitzpatrick, OSB will present “Integral Ecology” at the second session of the Indiana Catholic Conference’s 2021 series on Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home. The Catholic Church’s principles of social doctrine, based in Sacred Scripture and natural law, are the primary lens through …

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    Green Junction: Water in Crisis

    posted on June 6, 2021

    The water crisis in certain areas of the western part of the US is being described as historic. Even in areas that are not subject to water shortages, how can we better respect fresh water and work to give access to safe drinkable water to all?

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    Pope’s call to care for creation plants seeds among archdiocesan parishes to grow their efforts

    posted on May 14, 2021

    Creation Care efforts are growing in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. News from St. John the Apostle Parish in Bloomington, Our Lady of Lourdes in Indianapolis, and St. Vincent de Paul in Shelby County. Article from The Criterion by John Shaughnessy.

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    Category: Spotlight

    Sight Unseen: A sky filled with invisible stars

    posted on March 23, 2021

    Lent consistently strikes me as one of the most ill-timed of seasons—an idea that our yearlong pandemic has only served to make more obvious. In the U.S., we’ve already endured the long slog through winter: its dark nights, barren trees, cold stars and frigid temperatures.

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    Lent 2021

    posted on February 10, 2021

    Entering into Lent with Catholics worldwide, it is a moment for us to stop and reflect on God’s mercy and love for us and all of creation. As we pray, fast, and grow in faith with our local communities, let’s also focus on living in solidarity with the poor and vulnerable across the world, especially …

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    Green Junction: The importance of bees

    posted on February 10, 2021

    One third of the food we eat depends upon pollinators – mainly bees – for successful yields of crops, from pumpkins to apples to grapefruit. With the world’s bee population having been on the decline, we each can do our part to rejuvenate the bee population and maintain a reverent attitude toward the small creatures in God’s creation.

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