Catholic Seminary Installs a Solar Farm Shaped Like a Cross

Yale Climate Connections ^ | 4/2/21 | Sarah Kennedy

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Pope Francis has called upon the world to reduce its use of fossil fuels and reduce global warming.

(Image credit: Mundelein Seminary video)

From their plane windows, people traveling to and from Chicago may notice the shape of a cross in a field outside the city. This cross is made entirely of rows of solar panels that help power a Catholic seminary.

“The shape of it is really something I think is special,” says Father John Kartje, the rector and president of Mundelein Seminary at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake.

He says the 300-kilowatt array, which went online in December, is the first solar installation at a U.S. Catholic seminary.

The project is saving the seminary money on electricity bills. And Kartje says it represents the environmental stewardship that’s central to Catholic teaching.

Six years ago, Pope Francis wrote an encyclical – a formal letter – that called upon the world to reduce its use of fossil fuels and limit global warming.

[Veto!]

Will they pray for all the dead birds?

[Campion]

And Kartje says it represents the environmental stewardship that’s central to Catholic teaching.

Sure enough, there it is, right in the middle of the Nicene creed, "environmental stewardship".

*not* [sniff]

[Albion Wilde]

Somebody will try to make a lawsuit of it because atheists are able to see it from the airplane.