COVID-19: Toward authentic security rooted in nonviolence
The following reflection was written by Marie Dennis, a member of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative executive committee and senior advisor to Pax Christi International‘s secretary general. She served as co-president of Pax Christi International from 2007-2019. The coronavirus has upended communities around the world, threatening livelihoods and lives, forcing a previously unthinkable change in daily […]
Dominican Farm & Ecology Centre County Wicklow, Ireland.
In the 1990’s a small group of Irish Dominican Sisters with courage and wisdom set about establishing an ecological project on their school grounds surrounded by 70 acres of land situated on a hillside overlooking the Irish Sea a short drive from the capital city of Dublin. Today their project is providing a model of […]
Ecology and liturgy
“Today there is an acute pathology inherent in the system that currently dominates and exploits the world : poverty, social inequality, the exhaustion of the Earth and the severe imbalance in the life system. The same forces and ideology that exploit and exclude the poor are also devastating the whole community of life and undermining the […]
Whither the Synod od the Amazon?
`We arrive at the peaceful and serene Amazonian rivers that head towards the sea… the document is a vibrant, powerful and profound river that brings together many currents from different countries and from the experience of the Amazonian churches. It offers its waters so that all may have life and Life in abundance’ (Fr Martin […]
Impressions of the « Campus de ls Transition »
`Everything is a miracle, eternity in the present moment. God is the life that makes the grass to sprout and the trees to grow. Believers ought to be the first ecologists…. I am part of the mystery of life, each element has its integral part, like a beautiful symphony where even the silences have their […]
Prayer service for 4 October 2019: Feast of St. Francis
INTRODUCTIONThe originally harmonious relationship between human beings and nature has become conflictual (cf. Gen 3:17-19). Through universal reconciliation with every creature, Saint Francis in some way returned to the state of original innocence. (LS 66) In calling to mind the figure of Saint Francis of Assisi, we come to realize that a healthy relationship with […]
My Journey to Earth Literacy
I live alone, and though I work part time in two different capacities, my sole group work is with JPIC, so my contribution here is a bit personal. ` I inherited a love of nature from my mother, who grew up just outside our town, in a house with a large garden leading down to […]
LCWR Calls for End to Gun Violence
The recent mass shootings in our country impel us to once again beg all citizens and all elected leaders to end the rampant rage and division that have overpowered the nation and too often result in mass, indiscriminate violence. We are a nation that promises a life free from fear, and yet we seem unable […]
The example of rescue NGOs in the Mediterranean
Sea-Watch and Captain Carola Rackete Enforce Human Rights Where EU Fails Neither the EU-Commission nor any European government brought about the solution for the disembarkation of the remaining 40 survivors aboard Sea-Watch 3. In the end it was captain Carola Rackete who was both forced and willing to take responsibility and who brought the people […]
Faith leaders and climate change
Have faith leaders a special part to play as we face climate and environmental chaos ? It seems so. At the recent Climate Coalition lobby of Parliament in the UK which attracted over 12.000 people, there was a workshop given by a Muslim from Islamic Relief telling how he got a group of Imams together to educate […]