An interview with Sister Simone Campbell, lawyer, poet, author and executive director of the Network social justice group, in America (6/11/2015)
Michael Czerny, jesuit, serves in the office of the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Rome. Published in Jesuits Canada blog (26/8/2015)
A personal response, an ecumenical reflection. By John Chryssavgis, Archdeacon and theological advisor to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. in First Things (6/7/2015).
Various videos from Boston College conferences about Laudato Si'.
This video presents the views of nine prominent (and soon to be prominent) Canadians among whom are David Suzuki, Maude Barlow, Silver Don Cameron and Gregor Robertson as they reflect on the Encyclical. 23 excerpts from Laudato Si' help the viewer read the actual words of the document.
Interview with Cardinal Turkson, by Fr. Thomas Rosica, in Salt and Light TV.
The President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson, on Tuesday opened a two-day conference at Santa Clara University in California which centered on Silicon Valley’s response to Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato si’.
Various articles in Commonweal, review of religion, politics, and culture edited by US lay Catholics
La arquidiócesis de San Francisco esta lanzando una iniciativa Laudato Si' para ayudar a las parroquias a responder a la encíclica del papa Francisco y formar equipos de "cuidado de la creación".
Michael Czerny, jesuit, serves in the office of the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Rome. Published in Jesuits Canada blog (30/8/2015)
Conférence de presse qui lançait à Québec la lettre encyclique du pape François. Intervenaient: Thomas Rosica, porte-parole du bureau de presse du Saint-Siège et président-directeur général de la Fondation catholique Sel et Lumière média; monsieur l’abbé Marc Pelchat, vicaire général, Église catholique de Québec; Dennis P. Drainville, évêque anglican de Québec; Khoudia Ndiaye, porte-parole de Développement et Paix; Norman Lévesque, directeur du réseau des Églises vertes.
The Green Churches Network aims to empower faith communities in adopting environmentally aware practices through action and awareness, as well as rediscovering an eco-spirituality from the Christian tradition.
Produce grown in the community garden at St. Pius X Church in Conyers (Georgia, Usa). goes to families in need. The garden is an example of ways the Atlanta Archdiocese hopes Catholics and parishes can implement Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment (4/12/2015).
Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, on March 17th 2016 addressed the participants of a conference on human ecology in Washington, D.C., in a lecture entitled "Is business to care for our common home?". The conference was hosted by Catholic University of America’s School of Business and Economics and the Napa Institute.
By Roberto Chiotti, in Faith and Form, The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture
By Christina Gray, in Catholic News Service (17/3/2016)
A Lecture given by Card. Peter K. A. Turkson at the 2016 John M. Kelly Lecture, University of St Michael’s College, Toronto (21 March 2016).
Le message du cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, archevêque de Québec, à l’occasion du lancement de l’encyclique du pape François intitulée Laudato Si’ (Loué sois-tu) « sur la sauvegarde de la maison commune ».
Le message du cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, archevêque de Québec, à l’occasion du lancement de l’encyclique du pape François Laudato Si’ «sur la sauvegarde de la maison commune».
Environmental degradation is a social justice issue that cannot be ignored. Too many Americans are robbed of life’s most basic necessities: clean air and clean water, because they stand on the lowest rungs of our nation’s economic ladder.