In Honor of Laudato Si’: Stories of Ecological Conversion in Action
This essay was delivered on June 29, 2019 as the closing keynote address at the inaugural gathering of “_Laudato Si_’ in the United States: A Conference Series on Our Common Home” co-sponsored by Creighton University and Catholic Climate Covenant. Sr. Patricia Siemen begins by emphasizing how the st...
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| Language: | English |
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The Journal of Moral Theology, Inc.
2020-04-01
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| Series: | Journal of Moral Theology |
| Online Access: | https://jmt.scholasticahq.com/article/12710-in-honor-of-laudato-si-stories-of-ecological-conversion-in-action |
| Summary: | This essay was delivered on June 29, 2019 as the closing keynote address at the inaugural gathering of “_Laudato Si_’ in the United States: A Conference Series on Our Common Home” co-sponsored by Creighton University and Catholic Climate Covenant. Sr. Patricia Siemen begins by emphasizing how the stories of Earth, persons, and communities are critical to eschewal of an environmentally harmful dominion theology and cultivation of what Michael J. and Kenneth R. Himes call “companionship.” She then invites the reader to consider her/his own ecological story and shares her own by which she became an Adrian Dominican sister, civil attorney, founding director of the Center for Earth Jurisprudence at the Barry University, and prioress of the Adrian Dominican Congregation. Finally, she shares the Adrian Dominican Congregation’s ecological story as one example of how a Catholic community can discerningly care for our common home. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-2851 2166-2118 |