Posted on 03/01/2024 4:09:34 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
On an unseasonably warm and sunny February day in Chicago, about 100 high schoolers from Catholic schools across the archdiocese chose to spend their time gathered indoors for a summit on climate change and Catholicism. Joining them was Cardinal Blase Cupich, who spent the Sunday morning in conversation and prayer about what he called an "important issue."
The third annual Catholic Youth Climate Summit was held Feb. 25 at St. Ignatius College Prep and Church of the Holy Family in Chicago. Now a joint effort of the Archdiocese of Chicago and Catholic Climate Covenant's youth mobilization program, the gathering started as a partnership between the Archdiocese of Chicago and the neighboring Diocese of Joliet, Illinois.
Mass on the day of the summit began with a procession of the elements, among them cedar, tobacco, sweetgrass and sage, each "sacred to many peoples, including the Council of the Three Fires, the Potawatomi, Ottawa and Ojibwe, on whose homeland we now live and pray," read Alan Treto, a senior from Marist High School.
Next, 14-year-old Aiyanna Mendez from the Arikara Ojibwe tribe led those gathered in the Prayer of the Four Directions, a native traditional prayer to open hearts and minds to all that is good.
"Including the Indigenous into the ministry is fundamental," said Michael Terrien, director of the Chicago Archdiocese's care for creation ministry, because it is representative of "the wisdom that our Indigenous brothers and sisters can bring to what is needed in the world today."
Yet while certain people are called to leadership roles, Cupich made it clear that environmental issues should be a concern for all Catholics.
"Today, no one can claim to be a faithful disciple of Jesus if they don't care about the environment," said the cardinal. "This is a deeply theological issue."
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Pagans.
Youth leadership should be held in its proper perspective. Primarily as young people are deficient in both wisdom and learning.
CC
Based on the article I’m inclined to agree with you. Respecting peoples beliefs is one thing. Participating in their non-Christian rituals is quite another.
CC
Question: Which is going down the toilet faster - the USA or the Catholic Church?
Just so.
It’s a dead heat so far.
CC
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