Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Just back from a conference in Hiawatha, Iowa, at a wonderful spirituality/ecology center called Prairiewoods, a ministry of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration of La Crosse, Wisconsin. The conference featured Dr. John Haught, a theologian at Georgetown University’s Woodstock Theological Center. Dr. Haught has focused much of [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: On the day after Christmas in 2004, millions of us sat glued to our TV screens as we watched the horror left by the great tsunami unfold in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and elsewhere. It was one of those great tragedies the magnitude of which the mind and [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The current ecological problems are essentially witnesses for the prosecution, testifying that we have violated the laws of life… The verdict is simple: we have mismanaged the ‘domain’ entrusted to us. Commission for Social Affairs, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Our Relationship with the Environment: the Need for [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Just back from Ontario where I gave two addresses last Thursday in Waterdown as part of their Earth Day celebrations. I was invited by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, Canadian Provinceand the events took place at their Motherhouse. Outreach for the event went throughout the community, including [...]