“Let us choose life; let us choose the future.” Pope Francis’ plea to decision makers and participants at COP28 and to all of us has been resonating in my heart. Click here to read his address. “Let us choose life; let us choose the future.” has become a chant I...
Laudato Si’
Parish Leaders of Metro NY Catholic Climate Movement Reflect on their Response to Laudate Deum
SCNY's Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation host Parish Leaders from Metro New York Catholic Climate Movement Another meeting – and an all-day meeting at that! But, how could I say no when it meant gathering with a group of committed lay parish leaders...
Ecological Spirituality: An Ongoing Journey
By Sr. Carol De Angelo, Director of SCNY Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation The Songs of Creation. The Cries of the Earth and Her Peoples. Respond in Hope. These three movements in Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home...
Some thoughts on Advocacy and Laudato Si’
By Sr. Carol De Angelo Earth Day 2022 is Friday, April 22, 2022. For me, advocacy work is about collaboration and building and strengthening mutually enhancing relationships. Advocacy work is accompanying others, as brothers and sisters, human and nonhuman, on the...
Blessing and Call: Learning from our Hudson River
March 14, 2022 marks the 25th Anniversary of the International Day of Action for Rivers. At a meeting of Sisters of Charity of New York in January, 2003, Sr. Theresa Capria offered reflections on the community’s life and future, based on her “learnings from the...