As director of integral ecology for the Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls, Mike Schut works closely with Franciscan sisters, associates, staff, partners and others to facilitate the commitment of the sisters to caring for, listening to and seeking right relationship with all people, the Earth and all creation, especially those affected by injustice and exclusion.
The pope proposes multiple ways humanity could improve its relationship with the oceans.
In focus: prisoners and organ donation, bishops united against abortion, U.S.-born priest appointed to oversee Dicastery for Bishops
An initiative, called the “Borgo Laudato Si'” project, will have “the beauty of the Villa Barberini gardens and the papal villas as the natural setting for developing a center for education in integral ecology, open to all people of goodwill.”
Among the many environmental issues Pope Francis is concerned about, the one that “has shocked me the most,” he once said, is the way resources are increasingly being consumed faster than they can be regenerated.
Following an emergency meeting of the bishops and the council’s steering committee July 6, council members agreed to change to a more flexible format allowing for greater discussion and consideration of the issues presented in the plenary meeting’s guiding document.
Upstream is dedicated to celebrating and amplifying the ways Minnesotans from all backgrounds care for the places where they live while inspiring new actions to be even better stewards of the state.
The release of the Framework for Motions signals the beginning of the end of the plenary journey with a call to “undertake the necessary work to rebuild confidence in the probity and trustworthiness of the Catholic community in this country.”
