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  • Lecture on The Papal Encyclical, Laudato Si, and its implications for Church and Society.

    June 22 2015
    Kathleen Fitzsimons

    The meeting in Trinity Chapel around 'Laudato Si was well attended and good. Sean McDonagh had to rush through his slides I guess because the event started late and wanted to finish and allow time for

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  • ‘Laudato Si’ – condensed version

    June 27 2015
    Pádraig McCarthy

    So we know that population is a factor. We also know that the poorer states with high birth rates contribute far less to greenhouse gases than the developed world. Francis is clear that the worst poll

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  • “Praise be to you, my Lord”

    June 18 2015
    Anne

    'Live as though there were no women in the world' does that include his Mother without whom he would not exist.

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  • ‘Laudato Si’ – condensed version

    June 27 2015
    Con Devree

    Response to Lloyd Allan McPherson, June 19 "Caring for our Common home." I think it is necessary to clean up the planet. And we have cleaned up a lot of it. The technological competence can be deve

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  • Caring for our common home

    June 19 2015
    Con Devree

    Lloyd, if you wouldn't mind and if the editor would allow it, I would like to respond on Padraing McCarthys thread "Laudato Si Condensed version of June 27.

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  • ‘Laudato Si’ – condensed version

    June 27 2015
    Con Devree

    The logic regarding Japan is that a subsequent lower rate of population growth would result in the next generation of teens targeting a still lower age group for abandonment. In most poor countries th

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  • ‘Laudato Si’ – condensed version

    June 27 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    John Paul IIi referred clearly to the two population problems, natality crisis in some northern hemisphere countries -- and yes, Japan is very concerned about this -- and overpopulation in some southe

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  • Caring for our common home

    June 19 2015
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Con, @ 5 do you think it's a good idea to clean up the planet? Under what scenario isn't it? How does cleaning up the planet not fall within the Church's competence especially after Benedict publish

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  • ‘Laudato Si’ – condensed version

    June 27 2015
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Joe @3: My apologies - it seems I was not clear in what I wrote. I have not denied that there is a population problem. Rather, we need to examine two population "problems" - the one commonly spoken of

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  • ‘Laudato Si’ – condensed version

    June 27 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    Padraig, there is a group of young people in Japan led successively by an 18 year old and a 17 year old girl whose slogan is "why should we be spending money on people whose days are numbered?" -- I f

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