Episode Details

On this weeks programme Jane Mellet (Laudato Si Officer with Trocaire) joins John and Shane to reflect on the up coming fifth anniversary of the publication of the papal encyclical Laudato Si - On care for our common home from Pope Francis. 

Jane introduces us to the document and how Pope Francis reminds us that "Nature cannot be regarded as something separate from ourselves or as a mere setting in which we live. We are part of nature, included in it and thus in constant interaction with it”. We need to become aware of our moral responsibility to what Pope Francis calls "our common home" and how “it is human beings above all who need to change. We lack an awareness of our common origin, of our mutual belonging, and of a future to be shared with everyone........A great cultural, spiritual and educational challenge stands before us, and it will demand that we set out on the long path of renewal”.

Resources mentioned by Jane on this weeks programme:

• Laudato Si Week 2020 - 16th - 23rd May 2020
• Trocaire - Parish resources
• Trocaire - Education resources
• Global Catholic Climate Movement
• Ecocongregation Ireland