EDUCATION
“Environmental education should facilitate making the leap towards the transcendent, which gives ecological ethics its deepest meaning. It needs educators capable of developing an ethics of ecology, and helping people, through effective pedagogy, to grow in solidarity, responsibility and compassionate care” – LS 210.
Featured Webinar
Length: 34 minutes
Presented by: Joint Ecological Ministry
JEM brings together Catholic congregations, to talk about what we can do together to address the climate emergency as a collective. We create opportunities for collective action.
- How can we make this situation an opportunity to do better?
- Featured speaker Sister Sue Wilson Sister Sue explains steps we can take to build an ethical framework to transition to a just society, equitable economy and a healthy planet.
- …you will see that the wealthiest 20% of Canadians, own 73.5% of the wealth. And the poorest 40% of Canadians own just 1.2% of the wealth. So we are talking about a level of disparity that creates a very real sense of exclusion and that erodes social trust.”
Featured Book
Amazing Friendships between Animals and Saints
Author: Greg Kennedy S.J
Illustrations by: Kerry Lyn Wilso
Children will be delighted by this beautifully illustrated book about friendships that holy women and men have made with animals. Fable-like in tone, these friendships have much to teach us today about how to care for our common home, Earth, and live kindly with all her children. While Christians know of St. Francis and his amicable interaction with birds, wolves and other animals, few have heard the many other touching accounts of friendships between canonized women and men and other creatures. Today, given the Catholic Church’s insistence that the ecological crisis is essentially a spiritual one, the moral of these often-ancient stories offer us guidance, hope and instruction.