Posted on 09/04/2019 6:52:45 PM PDT by marshmallow
[Editor’s Note: In a message for the September 1 World Day of Prayer for the Care for Creation, Pope Francis urged governments to show the “political will” to take drastic steps to deal with climate change and says it’s time to abandon dependence on fossil fuels. Jason Adkins has served as the executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference since 2011. Charles Camosy spoke to Adkins about the ecological projects taking place with the Minnesota bishops in light of the pope’s call to do better in taking care of our “common home.”]
Camosy: September 1st was the World Day of Prayer for the Care for Creation. What did you guys do to mark this day?
Adkins: The Minnesota Catholic Conference is rolling out companion materials to our educational resource, entitled, Minnesota, Our Common Home, which was released earlier this year in February. The companion materials include a study guide, homily helpers, and an ecological examen.
The intention of Minnesota, Our Common Home is to bring into clearer focus the central teachings of Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’. While the encyclical itself is a groundbreaking document, it is very long and covers a lot of ground. We felt that taking its key messages and then translating them into a local context would help people here in Minnesota understand how Laudato Si’ and its call to integral ecology apply to their own daily lives.
Ultimately, we believe both the increasing environmental consciousness of people everywhere and Pope Francis’s encyclical are an important evangelical opportunity for the Church. Pope Francis says that the Church’s activities must be understood in a missionary and evangelical framework, and that is the way in which this resource should be understood: a tool for evangelization.
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Looks like the agnostic Francis found an audience in New Somalia (nee Minnesota)
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