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Fr Sean McDonagh presented 'Climate Change, The Response of Catholics'. at the Catholic Bishops’ Conference on Climate Change in Canberra in Nov 2005
- Catholic
Conservation Center has some very good pages on Catholic Teaching
about the environment and some good links. (The Catholic Conservation
Center is currently located in cyberspace, was established in 2000
by Bill Jacobs, a Catholic layperson and a director of stewardship
for an international, nonprofit conservation organization in USA.)
The Church
speaks on the Environment
Colour leaflet
produced October 2000 - Compiled by the Benedictine nuns of St Mildred's
Priory, Minster Abbey.
This is useful
colour leaflet with quotes from people such as Pope John Paul II, Thomas
Aquinas, the Catechisn of the Catholic Church, John Chrysostom, the
Bible, Bernard of Clairvaux and others about the glory and importance
of Creation and the Natural World. Please send a stamped addressed envelope
plus for every leaflet that you require : one first class stamp - to
Sr Ancilla Dent OSB, Mister Abbey, Minster near Ramsgate, Kent CT12
4HF
 Sean McDonagh's brand new book: on species extinctions and the church (Nov 2004)
Priests
and People: Justice for Creation
February 2000 Vol
14 No 2.
ISSN 00009-8736
This features articles
by Ghillean Prance, Robert Murray, Mike Monaghan, Sister Ancilla Dent,
Celine Mangan, Paul McPartlan, Bernard Robinson and Deborah Jones
For example M M, who spent eight years as an environmental
director of a multinational company writes "The Church as an organisation
can assist this process by encouraging members to question the environmental
and social standards of the companies with whom they have any involvement."
Send £2.80 for this 1 copy, including postage UK, to 1 King Street
Cloisters, Clifton Walk, London W6 0QZ
The Stations
of the Forest
Edited by Fr Sean
McDonagh. Pub: Cafod.
Ecology and
Faith - The Writings of Pope John Paul II
Edited by Sister
Ancilla Dent OSB. (ISBN 0-85305-410-X). Pub: Arthur James 1997. £5.00
These addresses,
dating from 1986 to 1995, show his growing awareness of the ecological
crisis and the need for a Christian response to the global challenge
it presents.
- Earth Spirituality
- Jesus at the Centre
- By Edward P.
Echlin. (ISBN: 1-85608-445-0) Pub: Arthur James 1999. £5.99
- This book seeks
ecological wisdom from the life and resurrection of Jesus. It is the
most profound book yet published about a Christian ecology centred
on Jesus. The author relates a Christ-centred spirituality to his
own experience and to the ecological challenges facing the world in
the next few decades.
- Greening
the Christian Millennium
- by Fr Sean McDonagh.
Pub: Dominican Publications 1999. £9.99
- Sean McDonagh
has written several very useful books on Christianity and the environment
and this one is the latest, HOT OFF THE PRESS. He worked as a missionary
with the T'boli people in the Philippines and has been involved in
environmental issues in Ireland and else where since then
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- The example
of Francis and Clare
"Francis and Clare not only became brother and sister to every
human being but to all animate and inanimate creatures. In contemplating
nature, when Francis discovers that everything speaks to him of
God, his eyes are filled with joy and he exclaims in the Canticle
of Brother Sun: everything "... from you, Most High, bears significance"
(FF 263).
"Dear young people, may you too learn to look at your neighbour
and at creation with Godīs eyes. Mainly respect its summit, which
is the human person. At the school of such excellent teachers,
learn the careful and attentive use of goods. Do your utmost to
see that they are better distributed and shared, with full respect
for the rights of every person. In reading the great book of creation,
may your spirit open to grateful praise to the Creator."
--Pope's
address to "Young People in Assisi," August 26, 2001.
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Words from a talk by Pope John Paul II on 17 January 2001:
"If we scan the regions of our planet, we immediately see that humanity has disappointed God's expectations. Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air unbreathable, disturbed the hydrogeological and atmospheric spheres and turned luxuriant areas into deserts and undertaken forms of unrestrained industrialization, humiliating the flower-garden of the universe to use the image of Dante Alighieri (Paradiso, XXII, 151.). We must therefore encourage and support the 'ecological conversion' which in recent decades has made humanity more sensitive to the catastrophe to which it has been heading. Man is no longer the Creator's 'steward', but an autonomous despot, who is finally beginning to understand that he must stop at the edge of the abyss".
- On 1 Jan 1990 Pope John Paul said: "Christians, in particular, realise that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith"
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- Catholic
Conservation Center has some good pages on Catholic Teaching
about the environment and some good links. (The Catholic Conservation
Center is currently located in cyberspace, was established in
2000 by Bill Jacobs, a Catholic layperson and a director of stewardship
for an international, nonprofit conservation organization in USA.)
- Catholic
Study Circle for Animal Welfare For 70 years there has been
only one UK Catholic society concerned with every aspect of animal
welfare and theology - the Catholic Study Circle for Animal Welfare.
Regd Charity No. 231022. An illustrated, 62-page journal The Ark
is published every four months, containing articles and features
on every aspect of the Study Circle's interests.
- CAFOD
(the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development)
- Independent Catholic News
- Catholic Earthcare Australia is an ecological agency established by the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference and chaired by Bishop Christopher Toohey.
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