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How do you like the Global Warming so far?

This sucks like all get out!!!!!!!!!
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No, it won't.

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Actually, it's the other way around. In the face of the pandemic, climate / ecology measures are being ignored or done away with in the face of more immediate concerns.

This will set us back a while I think.

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The air over Los Angeles is clear and the water in Venetian canals is not only clear but has active marine life in it now--there was that recent video of jellyfish in the canals. Those are really issues of "pollution" rather than "climate", though--the two get conflated quite often.

Perhaps corona will show people that "climate change" really isn't all that big of a deal after all.
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Amazon's indigenous peoples getting coronavirus from illegal miners [In-Depth]
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ROSARIO, Argentina - According to the Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network (REPAM), the people of the Amazon region are more at risk to COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, due to the lack of proper educational system and to the inaccessibility to adequate hygienic and sanitary services.

By April 29, over 967 people in the Amazon region had died of COVID-19, with 16.498 having tested positive for the coronavirus.

Mauricio Lopez, REPAM'S executive secretary, also told Crux some local governments "have been unable to implement adequate measures to care for the most vulnerable communities."

He pointed to many communities in the nine-country Amazon region that live in semi-isolation or in voluntary isolation.

"The mandatory lockdown and its enforcement in the cities has left the region more vulnerable to illegal extractivist industries, that are responsible not only for the destruction they're causing to the ecosystem, but are also to blame for importing the virus to the region, to communities that have an immune system that is very different to ours," he said.

According to Lopez, who played a key role helping organize last October's Synod of Bishops on the Amazon region, some of the communities are speaking of a "potential genocide."

"These are communities that face a greater vulnerability because they have a very precarious health structure," he said. "And you also have to take into account that the lives of these communities make it really hard to follow some of the measures suggested, such as isolation, because most of these people live day-to-day, with an economy of subsistence."

Caritas, the international charitable arm of the Church, has played a "key role" in providing humanitarian aid such as food and basic health assistance.

Lopez said the gravity of the pandemic is so large that his aid might prove insufficient, but proves the Church is present "where no one else cares to go."

"We're living an option of a Church that goes out, that cooperates with local authorities respecting the protocols, but assisting, caring for, accompanying and looking for ways to answer to the needs of the population," he told Crux.

An article published April 11 in National Geographic, says that despite the fact many tribes in Brazil's Amazon region have gone back into isolation, for some it might be too late if they have been exposed to the coronavirus.

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SÃO PAULO, Brazil -- Land conflicts grew in Brazil in 2019, which was President Jair Bolsonaro's first year in office. According to the Bishops' Conference's Land Pastoral Commission (known as the CPT), there were 1,254 incidents in the country last year, an increase of eleven percent compared with 2018.

The CPT's annual Conflicts in the Countryside report, published since 1985, showed that the number of murders grew from 28 in 2018 to 32 in 2019 and death threats went from 165 to 201.

Among nine indigenous persons that were killed in land conflicts in 2019, seven were community leaders -- the highest rate of leaders killed in 11 years. About one fifth of the total number of land conflicts involved indigenous groups.

"We consider as land conflicts all occurrences in which companies or ranchers dispute the possession of federal lands that had already been occupied by peasants, indigenous peoples, and other traditional groups," explained Paulo Cesar Moreira, a member of the CPT's national coordination committee.

"Violence is inherent to such conflicts. Since colonial times, land has been an object of dispute in Brazil," he told Crux.

According to the U.S.-born Sister Jean Ann Bellini, who is also a member of the CPT's national coordination committee, land conflicts in Brazil are related to the existence of large portions of public lands owned by the government, which are the continuous focus of land grabbing.

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"Since Bolsonaro's election in October of 2018, there had been a rising violence in the countryside. He established a strong alliance with ranchers and they soon confirmed their stance, with an exponential growth in the actions against indigenous groups," he said.

Bolsonaro many times expressed his opposition to the demarcation of lands for indigenous and quilombola [descendants of slaves who fled captivity during the colonial and imperial times and settled in rural or forest regions] communities. In August of 2019, he declared that there's "too much land for so few Indians" and that he didn't intend to give out new land grants, even though there are about 500 new requests waiting for the government's approval.

He also implied that there were irregularities in previous demarcation processes and that indigenous peoples were selling their reservation lands to foreigners.

"In his administration, the government's policies for the rural poor became even more precarious. Agribusiness became a force with direct political presence in the Executive, with high officials who come from that sector," Moreira claimed.

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"There's a growing consciousness of the need to organize among rural and forest communities. In the past few years, many times we heard traditional peoples and peasants saying that knowing their rights is not enough, given that the State doesn't respect the law," Bellini said.

Moreira said he believes the Brazilian Church's support to the rural and forest peoples has intensified since Pope Francis published the 2015 encyclical Laudato Si' and called last year's Amazon synod.

"The Synod for the Pan-Amazon region was an illuminating process, which invigorated the work of our pastoral agents," Moreira said.


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First defined by Pope Pius XI in 1931, the principle of subsidiarity discourages higher levels of society from assuming tasks that can be effectively achieved by lower levels, such as families, businesses, labor unions, civic groups and local governments. At the same time, the principle requires that higher levels of society assist the work of lower levels as needed to achieve essential goals. The ideal of subsidiarity is a society where local groups have the freedom and support to make well-ordered decisions that affect them, leading to a flourishing of enterprise, initiative and solidarity. Some spheres of life, like education, can be largely managed at the family and local level, while others, like national defense, must by their nature take place at higher levels of society.

Climate change is an issue that requires a high degree of social coordination yet intimately affects family and community life. It is a singular challenge for subsidiarity. As cities and towns across the country switch to wind and solar energy, create high-speed rail and bus lines, upgrade homes, farms and factories, and provide help to affected workers, lower levels of society need the freedom to make choices that are sensitive to local conditions. At the same time, support from the federal government is also needed -- to research new technology, to coordinate larger tasks, to ensure that each community does its part and to fund projects, especially in areas that will bear the highest costs of a climate transition.

While the Green New Deal would be a federal initiative, it would not be a set of top-down rules rigidly imposed on local communities.

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For example, imagine a town switching from fossil fuels to wind and solar power. A top-down approach that violates subsidiarity might involve federal bureaucrats imposing this change on the community in a way that neglects local values and conditions. In contrast, the Green New Deal calls for inclusive, democratic decision-making at the local level -- families, businesses, labor unions, civic groups and local leaders from each neighborhood working in dialogue to reach Green New Deal goals. For example, communities would decide where to place wind turbines and solar panels, and they would work out details of how they will be operated. This method would be designed to increase public support for the Green New Deal and would at the same time respect the values of human dignity and community as affirmed in Catholic thought.

The Green New Deal is sometimes associated with socialism and, in fact, draws political support from both democratic socialists and defenders of progressive capitalism. But the Green New Deal paradigm is very different from the type of socialism that has been condemned in Catholic social ethics. In church teaching, socialism is typically viewed as a political system that eliminates private property and subsumes human freedom under the power of an all-encompassing totalitarian state -- see Pope John Paul II's 1991 encyclical "Centesimus Annus," in which he writes that under socialism, "the concept of the person as the autonomous subject of moral decision disappears" (No. 12). In contrast, the Green New Deal seeks to preserve subsidiarity and to empower local action in the face of climate change, leaving space for individuals and families to pursue their own well-being while providing needed federal coordination in response to this challenge.

Any climate transition will be a daunting task, including one that respects local initiative. And there are remaining questions about the Green New Deal, such as how subsidiarity will be embodied in specific laws as they are written, how expansive Green New Deal programs should be and how the framework might support climate action in other countries beyond the United States. Still, with the cost of inaction growing ever higher, there are strong reasons to act.

As Pope Francis noted five years ago in his environmental encyclical "'Laudato Si'," "Attempts to resolve all problems through uniform regulations or technical interventions can lead to overlooking the complexities of local problems which demand the active participation of all members of the community." At times, climate proposals have tended toward the top-down focus Pope Francis warns against. In this context, the Green New Deal's emphasis on local action and decision-making is well-worth considering. It could be the key to addressing climate change while also strengthening the bonds of community in a way that promotes human dignity and flourishing.


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While the Green New Deal would be a federal initiative, it would not be a set of top-down rules rigidly imposed on local communities.
The Catholic Church is dreaming if they think this will ever happen. I would also point out how ironic it is for an organization that
uses top-down rules rigidly imposed on local communities
to tell anyone else they should avoid that.
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The "green new deal" is just your everyday monopoly capitalism that's been green-washed anyway.

Just a different bunch of people getting rich.

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Here's what to expect for Laudato Si' Week as pope's ecology document turns five [In-Depth]
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Festivities to mark the five-year anniversary of Pope Francis' landmark encyclical on the environment begin this weekend, just not how anyone originally anticipated.

With the planet still grappling with the coronavirus pandemic, a more subdued, mostly digital Laudato Si' Week kicks off May 16 and runs through May 24. The nine-day Vatican-sponsored event will commemorate the pope's 2015 social encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home" -- the first papal letter focused entirely on the Catholic Church's teachings on the environment and human ecology.

In early March, Francis invited the world's 1.2 billion Catholics to take part in Laudato Si' Week, saying, "I renew my urgent call to respond to the ecological crisis. The cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor cannot continue."

The theme for the week is "everything is connected," a central message in the encyclical made all the clearer as the novel coronavirus has raised dramatic consequences for all aspects of life around the world.

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Laudato Si' Week is sponsored by the Vatican's Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, which is led by Cardinal Peter Turkson. More than 100 Catholic organizations worldwide have signed on as partners, among them numerous religious orders, chapters of Caritas Internationalis, development agencies and bishops' conferences.

The website for Laudato Si' Week lists the official events, as well as numerous ones planned by partner groups. Many require online registration, and some will be livestreamed on the Global Catholic Climate Movement Facebook page.

The week's main programs kick off with Insua leading a two-day online retreat May 16-17. It ends on May 24 with a global day of prayer at noon around the world, with all using a shared prayer for the anniversary.

Francis signed his first encyclical, an authoritative papal letter, on May 24, 2015. It was released to the public on June 18 that year.

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Outside official events, many parishes, religious congregations and dioceses have organized their own online activities.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, one of the official Laudato Si' Week partners, produced a series of study guides, liturgical resources and homily helps to assist pastors, parishes and families reflect on the encyclical as well as Querida Amazonia, Francis' apostolic exhortation on the Amazon synod. Daily email reflections will offer ways to pray, learn and act on caring for creation.

In addition, the conference produced a postcard that calls Catholics to care for creation and invites them to learn more "how the climate crisis is a profound moral issue greatly affecting the poor and vulnerable."


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"Grounded in our Catholic Tradition, now is the time to protect the earth for our children and grandchildren," the card reads.

The conference will hold two virtual roundtables of bishops who will discuss how the encyclical has been received and implemented in the U.S. church.

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As with the main Laudato Si' Week programs, many Catholics have made connections with the encyclical's urgent call for an ecological conversion with the circumstances raised by the pandemic.

The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns this week released its policy guide on climate change, part of a series on faithful voting ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In it, they highlight the global consequences brought by climate change, quoting Figueres, the former U.N. climate chief, saying, "Some people used to think that they would be immune to global crises like climate change unfolding 'on the other side of the world.' [With the COVID-19 crisis,] I think that bubble has burst."

In Canada, Catholics have prepared a public letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to mark the Laudato Si' anniversary by urging the country to devise its post-pandemic recovery through a just transition to a low-carbon economy.

"In light of this anniversary, as a community of faithful Catholics, we are taking a pledge to shape our individual and community choices with care for all Creation. We are urging the Canadian government to join this commitment and take immediate concrete actions to flatten the curve of global warming and move towards a just and sustainable future," reads the letter organized by the Joint Ecology Ministry, a coalition of religious communities.

Leah Watkiss, ministry director for social justice, peace and creation care for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto, told EarthBeat her community felt it was important as Catholics to make the appeal now, as the deadly pandemic unfolds amid major milestones for Laudato Si' and Earth Day.

"Things that we would have said were impossible a few months ago are happening every day," Watkiss said. "... Anything is possible. So it's our responsibility as citizens of Earth to ask the question 'What comes next and how can we work toward this?' "


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Vatican office invites church on journey to 'total sustainability' in next decade [In-Depth]
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Plan for yearlong Laudato Si' celebration touts action platform toward carbon neutrality, fossil fuel divestment.


The Vatican's peace and justice office is inviting Catholic communities across the world to join a grassroots movement to gradually work toward "total sustainability" in the coming decade, a path that would include carbon neutrality, simpler lifestyles and divestment from fossil fuels.

The initiative was revealed May 16 by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development as part of a "special anniversary year" planned for Pope Francis' 2015 social encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home."

The news came on the first day of Laudato Si' Week, a Vatican-sponsored event running through May 24, the encyclical anniversary date. Now the week will kick off a full calendar of events through May 24, 2021.

As part of those plans, the dicastery outlined a multi-year "Laudato Si' Action Platform" that in gradual stages will invite Catholic dioceses, religious orders, schools and other institutions to publicly commit to a seven-year journey toward ecological conversion and "total sustainability." The hope is by starting small, the movement will eventually reach a "critical mass" with more and more corners of the church taking part over time.

The action platform is framed across seven "Laudato Si' Goals" grounded in the encyclical's concept of integral ecology. The holistic goals reflect the gamut of Catholic social teaching, and each lists examples of various benchmarks to accomplish.

Among the roughly two dozen benchmarks are becoming carbon neutral, defending all forms of life, adopting simple lifestyles, promoting ecologically centered liturgical celebrations and educational curricula, and divesting from fossil fuels and other economic activity harmful to the planet or people.

The action platform would begin in early 2021 by inviting an unspecified number of initial participants. The official launch is scheduled for the following May. At this stage, the platform remains an invitation, and no participants have been announced.

Participants would represent seven categories (families, dioceses, schools, universities, hospitals, businesses, farms, religious orders) and would commit to complete the goals in seven years. The dicastery said it hopes the number of participants in each group would double with each successive year. The rollout would continue through 2030.

"In this way, we hope to arrive at a 'critical mass' needed for radical societal transformation invoked by Pope Francis in Laudato Si'," the dicastery document states.

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In the Laudato Si' year anniversary plans, the integral human development dicastery, led by Cardinal Peter Turkson, states that the multiple "cracks in the planet" -- melting Arctic ice caps, wildfires in the Amazon and Australia, extreme weather and biodiversity loss -- "are too evident and detrimental to be ignored any more."

It adds: "We hope that the anniversary year and the ensuing decade will indeed be a time of grace, a true Kairos experience and 'Jubilee' time for the Earth, and for humanity, and for all God's creatures."

In the Book of Leviticus, a jubilee year occurred every 50 years, or "at the end of seven weeks of years," and was a sacred period of restoration with prisoners freed, debts forgiven and the land left fallow, free from sowing or reaping. "The land will yield its fruit and you will eat your fill, and live there securely." (Leviticus 25:19)


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The Laudato Si' Action Platform and its related goals resemble the United Nations' own Sustainable Development Goals. The U.N. agenda lays out a blueprint for the global community by 2030 to achieve 17 goals addressing a range of issues, among them: poverty, inequality, peace, hunger, water access, gender equality, clean energy and climate action.

The seven Laudato Si' goals address a range of areas related to sustainability and ecological conversion:
  1. Response to the cry of the Earth: work toward carbon neutrality through greater use of clean renewable energy and reduced fossil fuel use; support efforts to protect and promote biodiversity and guarantee water access for all.
  2. Response to the cry of the poor: defend human life from conception to death and all forms of life on Earth, while giving special attention to vulnerable groups such as indigenous communities, migrants and children at risk of trafficking and slavery.
  3. Ecological economics: sustainable production, fair trade, ethical consumption and investments, investments in renewable energy, divestment from fossil fuels and limiting any economic activity harmful to the planet or people.
  4. Adoption of simple lifestyles: reduce use of energy and resources, avoid single-use plastics, adopt a more plant-based diet, reduce meat consumption and increase use of public transportation over polluting alternatives.
  5. Ecological education: redesign curricula around integral ecology, create ecological awareness and action, promote ecological vocation with young people and teachers.
  6. Ecological spirituality: recover a religious vision of God's creation, promote creation-centered liturgical celebrations, develop ecological catechesis and prayers and encourage more time in nature.
  7. Emphasis on community involvement and participatory action around creation care at all levels of society by promoting advocacy and grassroots campaigns.
For months, the dicastery has explored ways to mark the five-year anniversary of what it called the pope's "watershed" encyclical on the environment and human ecology.

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The integral human development dicastery sketched out a full calendar of events for the Laudato Si' special anniversary year.

In June, the dicastery plans to release operational guidelines for other Vatican offices to implement the encyclical. On June 18, the anniversary of the release of Laudato Si', it will hold a webinar assessing the impact of the text and where it goes next.

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Vatican launches year-long celebration of Laudato Si' [In-Depth]
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ROME -- This week Pope Francis inaugurated "Laudato Si' Week" at the Vatican commemorating the 5th anniversary of the publication of his eco-encyclical with the same title, opening a wider year-long commemoration of the document aimed at spurring global citizens to adopt more sustainable practices.

Speaking from the library of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace during his livestreamed Regina Caeli address Sunday, the pope said the coronavirus has highlighted the importance of "caring for our common home," and voiced hope that reflections surrounding the Laudato Si' anniversary will "help to create and strengthen constructive attitudes for the care of creation."

He then formally inaugurated Laudato Si' Week, set to run from May 16-24, and which is the beginning of an entire year of activities dedicated to implementing Laudato Si', beginning May 24, 2020 and ending May 24, 2021.

Though Laudato Si' was published in June 2015, it was signed by the pope May 24 of that year, on the feast of Pentecost.

In a video created for Laudato Si' Week, Pope Francis questioned viewers, asking, "What kind of world do we want to leave to those who will come after us, to the children who are growing up?"

Flashing on scenes of protests from a student-led climate movement, Francis invited viewers to participate in this week's activities, and reiterated his "urgent call to respond to the ecological crisis."

"The cry of the earth and the cry of the poor cannot continue. Let's take care of creation, a gift of our good Creator God. Let us celebrate Laudato Si' week together," he said.

A project of the Vatican department for Integral Human Development, headed by Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, the Laudato Si' Anniversary Year will offer a clear emphasis on both ecological conversion and action, according to a communique from the department.

Five years on, Laudato Si' is "ever more relevant," they said, pointing to melting ice caps, recent fires that burned swaths of the Amazon, increasing extreme weather patterns, and a loss of biodiversity as indicators that change is needed.

Noting that the anniversary coincides with the outbreak of a pandemic, the department insisted that the message the encyclical offers "is just as prophetic today as it was in 2015," and can provide "the moral and spiritual compass for the journey to create a more caring, fraternal, peaceful and sustainable world."

"We have, in fact, a unique opportunity to transform the present groaning and travail into the birth pangs of a new way of living together, bonded together in love, compassion and solidarity, and a more harmonious relationship with the natural world, our common home," they said, insisting that COVID-19 has demonstrated "how deeply we are all interconnected and interdependent."

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Laudato Si' at five: Dioceses embrace pope's call for care of the earth [In-Depth]
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A weeklong church-wide observance is planned to mark Pope Francis's signing of the encyclical May 24, 2015. Laudato Si' Week, set for May 16-24, will include a number of online workshops.


CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis is "greening."

So are the dioceses of Stockton, California; Joliet, Illinois; and others across the United States.

Participants in diocesan environmental ministries credit Pope Francis's 2015 encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home", for raising awareness and motivating Catholics and others to act in countless ways to protect creation.

"The pope's encyclical lays out the scene very well and is something we can have an impact with," said John Mundell, an environmental consultant and a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Indianapolis, who is a leader in the archdiocese's creation care ministry.

"Besides the environment being part of our faith, there's a resurrection (in the encyclical) of some of the core values we should have. It is living the Gospel, living simply, loving your neighbor. It's all part of Catholic social teaching. That's the core," he told Catholic News Service as the encyclical's fifth anniversary neared.

A weeklong church-wide observance is planned to mark Pope Francis's signing of the encyclical May 24, 2015. Laudato Si' Week, set for May 16-24, will include a number of online workshops. The week, sponsored by the Vatican Dicastery for Integral Human Development, ends with a day of prayer May 24, a Sunday, at noon local time.

"It's a time for Catholics around the world to pray, reflect and prepare to build a better world together," said Anna Wagner, director of network engagement for the Global Catholic Climate Movement, which is working with RENOVA+, an Argentine Catholic organization promoting the encyclical, to facilitate the week with the dicastery.

A website -- laudatosiweek.org -- includes a video message from the pope and other resources for observing the week.

Diocesan environmental ministries have been key to bringing the encyclical's core messages to the faithful.

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We should be good stewards of the planet as we derive our life from the planet. Its in our personal interests to take good care of it.

But Wos you just proselyting Catholicism every possible place you can ... its kinda spam doctoring, no?
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Skyweir wrote:But Wos you just proselyting Catholicism every possible place you can ... its kinda spam doctoring, no?
It really is, yes, and it annoys me on a personal level....

...but as moderator I must admit that he isn't breaking any rules and so I let it slide.
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Pandemic's turmoil an opening to boost protection of creation, bishops say [In-Depth]
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The coronavirus pandemic has thrown the world into turmoil, but Pope Francis's 2015 encyclical on care for creation can guide individuals to reassess life's priorities in response, a trio of prelates agreed during an online roundtable discussion.

Such reflection can lead to a fundamental personal conversion away from materialism and consumerism and toward new values rooted in the protection of the fragile environment, they said.

The encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home", was the focus of an hourlong conversation May 20 hosted by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops among Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego and Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles as part of a week of programs, activities and prayer observing the document's fifth anniversary worldwide.

"What strikes me most is the whole notion of ecological conversion," Coakley said of the pope's encyclical. "That's a very fruitful path, I think, for a way into the document and the teaching of the Holy Father."

The idea of conversion permeated comments from all three prelates. They encouraged Catholics and non-Catholics alike as they reflect on the fundamental questions of what matters most in daily life: family, a home and food.

"So the conversion is a biblical conversion, a conversion to a different worldview," Barron said, explaining that God has not just redeemed people but creation as well. "That's a deep level of conversion of consciousness," he said.

Barron also described the pope's writing as a critique of anthropocentrism, the view that human beings are the central or most significant entity on the planet who can manipulate nature to their liking.

The encyclical encourages a recovery of "a biblically rich imagination that doesn't put the human powers at the center, but creation at the center," he said.

The prelates acknowledged the encyclical has gotten increasing attention in U.S. dioceses. While some dioceses have been slow to embrace it, many have readily moved forward in developing study groups, adopting curricula in schools and religious education classes, implementing the teaching across parish life.

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Coakley suggested that raising awareness of the encyclical and environmental threats to the world may hinge on building a sense of solidarity -- a principal of Catholic social teaching -- among people across boundaries of nation and economic class.

The pandemic may forge solidarity as people realize no one is exempt from the threat COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. "The pandemic has led us to see that we are all in this together," he said.

In much the same way, people can come to understand that Pope Francis explains in his encyclical that creation is threatened by excessive lifestyles, materialism and excessive waste, the archbishop said.

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Particularly if it challenged your product, ie if it were Satanist, atheist or anti-Catholic articles youd question my intent, no?

Occasional, of interest Catholic positions but its like drive-by strafing ... a scatter-gun approach of dumping weird Catholic shit everywhere.

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Skyweir wrote:Occasional, of interest Catholic positions but its like drive-by strafing ... a scatter-gun approach of dumping weird Catholic shit everywhere.
That is a pretty accurate representation of what is going on here.
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'This is water management.' St. Joseph sisters create massive rain garden in New Orleans [In-Depth]
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St. Joseph Sr. Pat Bergen speaks at the January 2016 news conference announcing the plans to convert the congregation's former provincial house in New Orleans into a water garden. Listening are Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, second from left, and then-mayor Mitch Landrieu, third from left. (Courtesy of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph)

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Editor's note: It's the five-year anniversary of "Laudato Si', on Care of Our Common Home," Pope Francis' landmark encyclical on the environment. Read about other things sisters are doing for the environment on GSR and follow NCR's Laudato Si' anniversary coverage on EarthBeat here.

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On a beautiful June day in 2006, St. Joseph Sr. Joan Laplace was driving back to New Orleans after visiting the Gulf Coast with some sisters when her phone rang.

It was from a sister in Cincinnati, asking how far Laplace was from Mirabeau, the New Orleans provincial house of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph.

"There's been a fire," the sister on the phone said. "How soon can you get there?"

Laplace arrived to find the campus filled with firefighters and equipment. A helicopter ferried loads of water from the nearby Bayou St. John.

"It was an absolutely beautiful Sunday afternoon," Laplace said. "It was a ridiculously fine day. But there was apparently a tiny little storm, and lighting had struck the roof of the center building and traveled in every direction."

By the time the fire was out, the second floor of the building no longer existed.

The first floor offered nothing to save. It had been gutted months before after 8 feet of water flooded it during Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.

Soon, it could be flooded again, but this time, the water will spare local homes and businesses; feed 25 acres of prairie, wetlands and forest; and help stop New Orleans from sinking further below sea level. The sisters hope for an August groundbreaking to transform the land into a massive water garden, a place to store floodwater during storms.

"New Orleans has never managed water," Laplace said. "They've always fought it. This is water management."

There is a large storm sewer running beneath the street on the north edge of the property. In normal times, that system drains rainwater from the streets of the neighborhood to Bayou St. John. But the bayou can only hold so much water, so the storm sewers fill up and rainwater floods streets, then homes and businesses.

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Illustration of the planned Mirabeau Water Garden in New Orleans showing a 10-year flood scenario (CNS/Courtesy of Waggonner & Ball)


When the water garden is complete, a set of pumps at the northwest corner of the property will lift water from the storm sewer up to the surface, where it will flow through swales and slowly fill low-lying areas.

Another storm sewer at the southeast corner of the land will drain onto the land by gravity. A small berm around the edges of the property will ensure the water stays where it belongs as it waters the landscape, soaks into the soil and evaporates. When the storm sewers have capacity again, the water -- up to 10 million gallons of it -- will flow out of Mirabeau back into the city system and to the bayou.

Architect J. David Waggonner III, who proposed and designed the water garden, said one of the biggest problems facing New Orleans is the way it has fought the water.

Yes, the city does lie below sea level, but it didn't always. A century of pumping water out of the ground to lower the water table has caused the land to sink -- a process called subsidence -- up to 8 feet in places, he said. That means the more engineers use pumps against the water, the deeper the hole they find themselves in.

Mirabeau will do something different.

Instead of pumping out groundwater and causing more subsidence, Waggonner said, Mirabeau will return groundwater -- and more than engineers originally thought. In studying the land, they found what was once a barrier island thousands of years ago that is now underground, meaning a huge tube of sand is there that can easily move groundwater away, making room for more.

"This is not designed to protect you from storm surge. It's designed to protect you from rainfall, which is a much more common occurrence," Waggonner said.


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St. Joseph Sr. Pat Bergen, right, with architect J. David Waggonner III (Courtesy of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph)


When complete, the Mirabeau Water Garden -- land the sisters still consider holy, a place where generations of sisters lived and worked and served God -- will serve the neighbors, their city and the environment and will be a model for other cities dealing with stormwater.

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St. Joseph Sr. Joan LaPlace (center, in black) with St. Joseph sisters in the library of St. Joseph's Academy in Baton Rouge, one of the Catholic high schools the order founded (Courtesy of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph)


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The concrete shield that marked the center of the lobby floor in Mirabeau, a provincial house of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in New Orleans, is all that's left of the building after Hurricane Katrina and a 2006 fire largely destroyed it. The shield was kept when the building was razed and will be used to mark the water garden built on the site. (Courtesy of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph)


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