‘Laudato Si’ The Importance of Biodiversity

‘Laudato Si’ and All God’s Creatures, Small and Great:

The Importance of Biodiversity.

Columban Ecological Institute, St. Columban’s, Dalgan

March 19th 2016. 9.30am to 4.00 pm

9:30am – 10.00am   Registration
10.00am – 11.15am Laudato Si on Biodiversity: Sowing the Seeds of a New Creation Spirituality. – Dr. John Feehan – Scientist and Theologian.
11.15 -11.45 am –   Morning Tea/Coffee
 
11.45am – 1.00 pm God Loves all His Creatures. Laudato Si’ – Anthropological and Theological Challenges. Fr. Dermot Lane –Theologian
1.00pm – 2.00 pm       Lunch
 
2.00pm – 3.15pm   Getting to Know Your Own Place: Dr. Tomás Murray –Ecologist, National Biodiversity Centre, Waterford.
3.15pm – 4.00pm       General discussion with all the speakers.
 
Please book before February 29th 2016 with Elizabeth Mc Ardle
email devofficemail@gmail.com
or Sean McDonagh seanmcdonagh10@gmail.com
Cost €35 or £30 (includes lunch and morning tea/coffee.
Students under 25 years €10.

Similar Posts

  • Ecology, Economics, and Ethics

    Articles, Creation / Ecology
    5 Comments

    In response to Seán McDonagh’s call for more discussion in church about issues that matter and are relevant to the lives of all people rather than silly season tabloid fodder Joe O Leary replied with a long response that includes an article by Stefano Zamagni, on “Ecology, Economics, and Ethics”.
    We carry it as a stand alone post rather than a reply as it is well worth reading. Our thanks to Joe.

  • Updated! Some go low, some go high, reactions to the election of the 45th President of the USA

    Articles, Creation / Ecology
    4 Comments

    Updated with comments by Sean McDonagh on the potential devastating consequences President elect Trump’s policies on the environment will have if implemented.

    Last Tuesday, 08 November 2016, citizens of the U.S.A. elected their new President.
    The resulting democratic election of Donald Trump led to joyous celebration among his followers and despair, despondency, and even a sense of fear among those who opposed his views and values.

    Brendan Hoban, in his Western People column and Tony Flannery, on his own blog site, have shared some thoughts on the election of Donald Trump and possible implications for us in Ireland.

  • Put your foot down about climate change

    Articles, Creation / Ecology, Editor's Choice
    1 Comment

    Sean McDonagh reminds us that climate change is a moral problem for all Christians. Promoting the Christian message and its implications for climate change connects in real ways with people of all ages and backgrounds.
    “Deirdre Duff, a student who spoke about climate change at the end of Mass, believes that Laudato Si is an incredible document which could not only help save our planet but which could also bring young people back to the Church. ‘I’ll admit that I used to be pretty bad for going to Mass, I’d only go once or twice a month. Then I went to Mass the Sunday after ‘Laudato Si’ was released and I haven’t missed Sunday Mass since. I realised that the Church did actually had an awful lot to teach me…I realised how awful I’d been to God’s creation and to His poorest people who were suffering from my actions in other parts of the world…it just woke me up! Then I simultaneously got to know and love both God and God’s creation in a way I had never had done before.”

  • Laudato Si and the Path to COP 22

    Articles, Creation / Ecology
    1 Comment

    Seán McDonagh, SSC reports on a Joint Consultation on ‘Laudato Si’ and the Path to ‘COP 22’ organised by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences.
    He quotes Prof. Ramanathan Veerabhadran as saying “the effect of greenhouse gases on global warming is the most important environmental issue facing the world today.”
    “At the end of the meeting the group released this document in preparation for the COP 22 which will take place in Marraakesh from November 7 to 18th 2016.
    “ The Paris Climate Agreement is historic. For the first time since the signing of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), all countries have agreed to act in order to protect the planet. The core goals include: (1) keeping warming to “well below 2-degrees C” and “to pursue efforts to keep below 1.5-degree C”; (2) enabling countries to adapt to the adverse impacts already underway; and (3) ensuring the flow of fair and equitable financing to achieve the climate goals.”

Join the Discussion

Keep the following in mind when writing a comment

  • Your comment must include your full name, and email. (email will not be published). You may be contacted by email, and it is possible you might be requested to supply your postal address to verify your identity.
  • Be respectful. Do not attack the writer. Take on the idea, not the messenger. Comments containing vulgarities, personalised insults, slanders or accusations shall be deleted.
  • Keep to the point. Deliberate digressions don't aid the discussion.
  • Including multiple links or coding in your comment will increase the chances of it being automati cally marked as spam.
  • Posts that are merely links to other sites or lengthy quotes may not be published.
  • Brevity. Like homilies keep you comments as short as possible; continued repetitions of a point over various threads will not be published.
  • The decision to publish or not publish a comment is made by the site editor. It will not be possible to reply individually to those whose comments are not published.