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    ArchIndy Season of Creation program makes national news

    posted on September 3, 2019

    This fall marks the first year the Archdiocese of Indianapolis is officially celebrating the Season of Creation ( Season of Creation (September 1 – October 4).  In efforts to pair prayer with action, the Creation Care Committee developed a weekly guide to help parishes and individuals take action for protecting our common home. The guide …

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    Category: NewsTag: Archbishop Charles C. Thompson

    Season of Creation: Statements from Other Faiths

    posted on September 3, 2018

    From September to October each year, the Christian community celebrates the Season of Creation by praying and acting together to protect our common home.  Below are some statements from Pope Francis and leaders of other faith traditions on Care for Creation.

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    Church is ‘still in’ on addressing climate change

    posted on August 31, 2018

    First published in The Criterion on August 24, 2018 Fr. Rick Ginther with the release of “Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home” in 2015, Pope Francis drew attention to the urgent need for Christians to undergo “an ‘ecological conversion,’ whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship …

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    Category: NewsTag: Archbishop Charles C. Thompson

    Catholic Energies can help parishes live ‘Laudato Si’

    posted on December 17, 2017

    First published in The Criterion on December 15, 2017. In his 2015 encyclical letter “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” Pope Francis states, “There is an urgent need to develop policies so that, in the next few years, the emission of carbon dioxide and other highly polluting gasses can be drastically reduced” (#26). …

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    Category: NewsTag: EnergyAudience: Parish Faith & Action

    The Season of Creation and awareness of ‘Laudato Si’

    posted on July 8, 2017

    First published in The Criterion on September 8, 2017 Since the publication in June 2015 of Pope Francis’environmental encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” a significant worldwide increase in Catholic awareness has taken place regarding our role in taking responsibility to care for the environment. As part of those efforts, the pope …

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    Category: NewsTag: Poverty, Season of Creation

    Resources for ecological conversion are available for archdiocesan parishes

    posted on June 17, 2017

    First published in The Criterion on June 9, 2017 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Mt 4:17). With these words, Jesus began his public ministry. To repent is to take a new path—a path that leads us closer to God and to the person he is calling each of us to be. …

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    Category: NewsAudience: Parish Administration, Parish Faith & Action

    What should I ‘give up’ for Lent?

    posted on March 3, 2017

    First published in The Criterion on March 3, 2017 “It cannot be emphasized enough how everything is interconnected.” —Pope Francis, “Laudato Si, on Care for Our Common Home,” #138 Two weeks ago, my wife Julie and I were lucky enough to be standing in the Vatican at an audience with Pope Francis with 1,200 supporters …

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    Category: NewsTag: Lent, Poverty

    Care for the poor is rooted in Christian simplicity

    posted on September 9, 2016

    First published in The Criterion on September 9, 2016. Remember the line “Finish everything on your plate; there are starving children in China?” How crazy was that? What did it matter what we ate or did not eat to those across the world? And yet I wondered, are we not connected in some deep and …

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    Category: NewsTag: Poverty, Season of Creation

    Climate change is an urgent problem, but our faith calls us to act in hope

    posted on July 1, 2016

    Published in The Criterion – July 1, 2016 “Global temperatures soar for the 12th straight month” reported the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in May. India recorded its hottest day ever at 123.8 degrees amidst a deadly heat wave and drought. Climate scientists said sea levels could rise to devastating levels sooner than previously predicted. …

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    Responding to Pope Francis’ call to action to care for creation

    posted on March 30, 2016

    First published in The Criterion on March 25, 2016 Stewardship of creation is more than something we just do. Stewardship of creation is a response. It is a way of being and understanding our place in the world. Stewardship of creation is integral to what we are all called to do as Catholics: To respond …

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    Category: NewsTag: Archbishop Joseph W Tobin

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