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Conscience, Candidates and Discipleship in Voting – Part two
...background of abortion, climate change and the culture of exclusion, it is clear that the faith-filled voter who seeks to be guided by Catholic social teaching is confronted by compelling moral claims that cut across the partisan and cultural divides of our nation. The pathway from these crosscutting moral claims to decisions on particular candidates is not a direct and singular one in Catholic teaching, rooted in one issue. For this reason, the drive to label a single issue preeminent...
Witness
...the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.” I believe Will LeCroy can teach us an essential truth: Who among us deserves to be labeled, judged, discarded even, according to the worst thing we ever did? Rather, are we not called to honor human dignity and extend God’s loving design to all creation? To all persons? Surely just as we know that God loves us always and is never far from us, so are we...
Sister Mary (Mary Agatha) Carlton
...Officially Sister Mary was the volunteer coordinator and in that position interviewed volunteers and supervised their orientation. In addition, according to Sister Pat, Sister Mary assisted with the taking in and labeling of medications, restocking examination rooms, picking up supplies, cleaning the clinic and doing fund raisers. Sister Pat attributes their many returning clients to Sister Mary’s influence. Ever the gracious and generous woman, she did indeed ‘heal the oppressed,’” shared Sister Mary Roger. “Over the last five years, Sister...
Cherishing creation
...things, honor means to promise. Our promise in this time is to be God’s loving care for all creation, to be one of the ways God sustains life. We desire to live in right relationship with our Earth and with all that dwells on Earth. Right relationship puts us alongside of, not over and above, others. Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ, in her new book, “Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love,” says it this way: “Human beings participate with...
Sisters of Providence Land Ethic
Below is a portion of the Land Ethic of the Sisters of Providence. This is a set of ideals to help guide our actions in regard to Earth. We hope it offers you ideas for creating your own such list of guiding principles for living in harmony with creation. As members of one sacred Earth community, we Sisters of Providence commit ourselves individually and communally to care for our resources and to make decisions regarding their current and future use...
Compassion for Earth
...global warming below 2-degrees centigrade. Perhaps we can each commit to praying this prayer from Pope Francis, found in Laudato Si’. Imagine the energy entering the atmosphere if every reader of this blog prayed this from Nov. 30-Dec. 11! The focus is on climate, but the prayer embraces so much more! Let our prayer be for Earth, for peace, for nonviolence, for the people of France and Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, for the people of the United States and Iran...
What is Eco-Justice?
...caring for “Sister, Mother Earth who sustains and governs and governs us.” The cover for Feminist Platform The papal encyclical, Laudato Si: On Care of Our Common Home, lays out for all people the ethical and moral implications of climate change and Eco-Justice. As Mother Earth gasps for life, so do economically marginalized individuals, women, and children who experience lasting health and lifestyle effects of fossil fuel extraction. Implications of rising sea levels, increased heat waves, droughts, floods, storms, food...
Celebrating the Feast of Saint Francis
...the Canticle, in which he referred to the sun, wind, air, and fire as his brothers, and to the moon, stars, earth, water, and death as his sisters. I can’t help but wonder: What if every one of us who inhabit Earth had the same reverence for creation that Francis exhibited? Would the climate change issues be so critical? Would catastrophic weather events be so prevalent? Would our oceans be rife with plastic? I think Saint Francis would be right...
Practical ways to reduce CO2 emissions
...dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and cement. During the summer of 2018 the Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates committed themselves to reduce our carbon footprint by 2 million pounds by June 2019. We saw this as one small step in reducing the carbon footprint on Earth. Moreover, because climate change disproportionately affects the most vulnerable on Earth, we viewed our commitment as a way of reaching out to those most in need of Earth’s healing. So what are practical...
Conscience, Candidates and Discipleship in Voting – Part One
...authentic faith … always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it. We love this magnificent planet on which God has put us, and we love the human family which dwells here, with all of its tragedies and struggles, its hopes and aspirations, its strengths and weaknesses. The earth is our common home and all of us are brothers and sisters. If indeed ‘the just ordering of...
Earth Day should be every day
April has snuck up on us and while we are so close to embracing a return to normalcy, we’re just not quite there yet. It was a hard decision but for the second year in a row the Sisters of Providence have decided to cancel our annual Earth Day Festival & Craft Fair that would have been scheduled for Saturday, April 24. But although we may have canceled the event, we have not canceled what it stands for each year:...
Leadership Team expresses disappointment with recent Biden Administration announcement
...of land for fossil fuel leasing. Our Congregation was one of more than 1,000 other signatories to sign a letter urging the Biden Administration not to do this. When he entered office, President Biden clamped down on new leases for oil and gas, a campaign promise, and decision we applauded and which will help our Earth. But the Department of the Interior’s announcement on April 15 (Good Friday) will not only affect Earth and her inhabitants, it also spoils an...