Climate Change,
Water & Biodiversity
Fr Sean McDonagh SSC, Eco-Theologian
Will Talk On
Pope Francis’ Encyclical
“Laudato Si”
The Environment & Human Ecology
6:15pm Thursday 19th November 2015
The Model and Niland
The Mall Sligo
Admission Free- Collection to Defray Costs
The church was described as a juggernaut at the recent Leighlinbridge ACI meeting — with the institutional church out in front and Jesus to the rear – the ‘cart before the horse’.
Fr Sean McDonagh and Fr Donal Dorr will shortly launch books that focus on Christians’ relationships with our planet earth
We gather to praise God and to ask for help and grace. We know the difficulties that can come when we try to live the right way. Often the road…
Seán McDonagh in the wake of recent hurricanes in the Caribbean reminds us of what Pope Francis has said about climate change; “the scientific community has been “clear and precise” in linking human activities to the ongoing climate crisis…..,, Climate change is a “serious matter over which we cannot make jokes.”
Eco-theology is very much in the news – with some treating it with the utmost suspicion. However it is an area where great exploration is taking place. “All The World A Thin Place: An Urgent Call for Eco-Theology” is an essay carried by Progressing Spirit.that gives a taste of some recent thinking in this area.
Aidan Hart, in this article from the Association of Catholics in Ireland website, not only provides a catalogue of the abuse of minors that has led to the Church losing ‘much of its moral leadership around the world, particularly among younger Catholics in the northern hemisphere.’ but says ‘Lay people must be given back effective ownership of their Church, in which they will work, in word and action and partnership with clergy, guided by the Holy Spirit and a deep knowledge of Sacred Scripture and strengthened divine Eucharist – to help bring about on earth God’s Kingdom of unconditional love and mercy for all human kind and all of nature.’
Perhaps the text might be made available on this website. I have a specific interest in water and biodiversity, having studied natural resources management at university.