Warning The recent release of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 2018 Report showed not only the way to immediately address the impacts of climate change but the report somehow is giving us a grim global warning: “limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society…” […]

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Beginnings The Season of Creation starts on September 1, proclaimed last year by Pope Francis as World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation; originally practiced by the Orthodox as Day of Creation and ends on October 4, the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of the environment. “Christians or not, as people of faith and […]

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Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ encyclical encourages personal and institutional (much more so communitarian) response on ecological transformation. As a personal reflection I always relate the image-word ‘transformation’ with ‘transfiguration’, in Jesus’ experience; days before his crucifixion he was able to discern and accept his Father’s will during the ‘transfiguration’ experience. Totally divesting his humanity towards […]

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