Gandalf: “You’ll have a tale or two to tell when you come back.” Bilbo: “You can promise that I’ll come back?” Gandalf: “No. And if you do, you will not be the same.” -from The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien When was the last time you had an adventure? Did you go for a camping trip […]
Peru Adventure Mission in partnership with John Vianney Theological Seminary (Denver), 2019 By Chris Lanciotti, Creatio Spiritual Formation Director The greatest gift from the heart of the Church is the Eucharist. Don’t take my word for it; this has been the understanding of Christians from the beginning. St. Ignatius of Antioch, who was martyred for […]
Peru Adventure Mission, 2019 By Paulina Cherabie It was that time of morning; the air was still, the roosters were crowing, and the village hadn’t woken up yet. I felt the sun on my skin, smelled the crisp air of the Andes and beheld the majesty of the golden mountains encompassing the school we were […]
Our partners at Benedictine College have launched a service learning department to integrate classroom lessons into real-life experience through service to the poor. Brilliant! They asked us for our thoughts on this and our recent mission to the Peruvian Andes, and the story is now live. Check it out! https://www.benedictine.edu/academics/service-learning/newsletter/2017/12-08/importance
Catholics who do not embrace the spirit of Evangelii gaudium will likely be confused by Laudato Si In my previous article I already pointed out the 3 salient aspects of Laudato Si: its prophetic style, invitation to conversion and Trinitarian theology. I was going to technically discuss climate change in Laudato si’ vis-à-vis the […]
In our last post (Nature Deficit Disorder and Stewardship: Crisis in Creation), the problem of nature deficit and exercise deficit disorders and their relationship to a lack of a stewardship ethic was discussed concluding with the notion that faith based outdoor education can be viewed as a solution. Given that, what is that outdoor educational […]
In the last post (Catechesis on Creation) an outline was provided for a series of articles on the need for addressing what should be our faith response to the various environmental crises. Any such discussion must begin with looking at our human role as stewards and what keeps us from meeting that responsibility. Richard Louv […]
The Pope’s comments confirming the next encyclical on ecology have been known for a while, and furthered since Pope Francis’ interview on flight from Korea:
Tom Shakespeare has an interesting article on the BBC, where as the atheist that he is, he proposes a critique of “spiritual but not religious” (SBNR) and humanism. For Tom, the informal beliefs and creeds of SBNR are even more impossible to embrace than those of organized religion. Humanism (no organized religion nor belief in […]