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: Still full of yesterday’s thoughts, I want to add this post for our weekend reflection. Earth Day approaches, a good time to ponder the true nature of our relationship with our planet. Spirituality encompasses many things. It is an orientation to life, an inner attitude that determines our [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: When we speak about ecology, we speak of relationships. Over and over again we need to say this until we really ˜get it.’ We humans are not over and above Nature; we are not masters of Nature, much less the universe. We are not at the top of [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Sorry for not posting all week — some emergencies that had to be dealt with. You know how life is, what John Lennon once sang: “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” Not a bad lesson for us to learn as we confront the multi-layers of [...]