Students, parishioners and pastors in the Archdiocese of Detroit gathered Sept. 30 at Sacred Heart Major Seminary to discuss the Catholic Church’s role in caring for the environment, and how best to implement its lessons and teachings.
Fifty-seven people participated in the “Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor” Synodal Listening Session hosted by the Catholic Climate Covenant, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit inspired by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ commitment to ecological awareness and Catholic social teaching on ecology.
The listening session invited participants from across the Archdiocese of Detroit to pray, discern and discuss how parishes and schools can implement practices grounded in Pope Francis’ landmark 2015 encyclical Laudato Si‘.
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