Our Common Home: Care for Creation, Care for the Poor – A Special Presentation on the Pope’s encyclical Laudato Sí

oin us for this special event being co-sponsored by St. Edward’s University Campus Ministry, St. Edward’s Office of Sustainability, and St. Edward’s School of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 7:00 p.m., Dan Misleh, Executive Director of Catholic Climate Covenant, offers a special presentation, Our Common Home: Care for Creation, Care for the Poor.

Pope Francis’s encyclical on ecology, Laudato Si, says that climate change is real and mainly “a result of human activity.” The problem is urgent: “Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years.”

We must all change our day-to-day actions to live more sustainably: “Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage, and responsibility. Solving climate change means protecting the planet and vulnerable people, and we must hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”

Faith can guide us. The entire material universe speaks of God’s love, his boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains—everything is, as it were, a caress of God.” The problems are big and urgent. But hope remains if we act in honesty and love. “Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home…. Truly, much can be done!”

Join us to hear Dan Misleh speak about Pope Francis’s encyclical on ecology, resources for learning and action from Catholic Climate Covenant, and ways that we can join together in common effort to care for our common home.

When: 7:00-8:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Where: University Catholic Center, 2010 University Avenue, Austin, TX 78705

This program is sponsored by TXIPL along with EnviroMedia, University Catholic Center, St. Edward’s University Campus Ministry, St. Edward’s Office of Sustainability, St. Edward’s School of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and the Interfaith Environmental Network (IEN) of Austin. For more information, call 512-472-3903 or e-mail Yaira.

Ready to learn more and take action? These resources from Catholic Climate Covenant can help: