FORT ATKINSON — On Sunday, July 12, St. Joseph School’s Home and School Association will host its sixth annual golf outing at the Koshkonong Mounds Country Club, W7670 Koshkonong Mounds Rd. Registration is at 11:30 a.m. with shotgun start at 1 p.m. Golfing is $35 for members and $75 for non members. Registration forms are available at St. Joseph School and at the Scrip table in the gathering space.
Month: July 2015
Let’s respond to Pope Francis’ challenge!
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I’m hoping this is true, because instead of writing a long “Editor’s View” this week, I’m publishing a picture. I hope it tells the story better than many words!
It was perhaps providential that I paid a visit to Niagara Falls close to the time when Pope Francis issued his encyclical, Laudato Si’: on Care for Our Common Home.
Will we answer pope’s call to action?
To the editor:
I would like to express my gratitude to Pope Francis for writing his encyclical, Laudato Si’. He inspires us all to act on our calling to care for the gifts of God’s creation.
In 2001, the U.S. Catholic bishops said, “global climate change is not about . . . partisan advantage or interest group pressures. It is about the future of God’s creation and the one human family. . . ” Pope Francis’ encyclical endorses this and moves the climate change conversation beyond politics to the moral realm where it belongs.
Pope ties ecological justice to social justice
To the editor:
In reading through Pope Francis’ most recent encyclical, he reminds us that by hurting God’s creation, we are also hurting ourselves. We are causing pain to the poor and most vulnerable among us. We are damaging all life on this planet, including our own.
I was struck by the ways Pope Francis ties ecological justice to social justice, urging us “to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.” These cries are inextricably linked, though some try to frame them in opposition to one another.