Faith

After July 30 landslides swept away villages and a town in Wayanad, Kerala, India, Catholic sisters joined efforts to organize relief camps, offering school buildings, collecting aid and providing counseling.

Sr. Terri Schell is director of Shepherd's Corner Ecology Center, which she said "invites us into a wider way of relating" to Earth. 

"We are all one, we all come from the Earth and are related to all other life forms," explained Sr. Jeanne Clark, who facilitates the Elderberries' monthly meetings and annual retreat. "The sun and the stars, forests and oceans, plants and animals are our kin, each belonging, each sacred."

The Association of Sisterhoods of Kenya are training youth to become environmental stewards through their Sisters' Led Youth Empowerment Initiative.

The Life - Faith-based actions are crucial in addressing the climate crisis. Our sister panelists discuss how their communities have responded to Pope Francis' call for transformative stewardship of our ailing Earth.

"Accompanying the Indigenous people and listening to their dreams has been a reaffirmation of my vocation," says Sr. Zully Rojas Quispe, provincial of the Dominican Missionaries of the Rosary in Peru.

In a new book of meditations on God and the Earth, feminist theologian Elizabeth Johnson explores an image of God as lover of creation and concludes that, yes, you will see your pet in heaven. 

During an event at the University of Arizona March 18 Tucson Bishop Edward Weisenburger and other Catholics noted the local impact of new federal air quality standards.