Hope for Our Common Home: Catholics Caring for Creation
Schedule
Sat Mar 29 2025 at 08:00 am to 03:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Boston College High School | Boston, MA
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Embark on a transformative journey as we usher in the Jubilee year of Hope with a day dedicated to the urgently needed Care for Creation, as inspired by Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’. This convocation promises to be both inspiring and thought-provoking.
There is no fee for this event.
-Mass celebrated by Archbishop Richard Henning.
-Opening remarks by Deacon Tim Donohue, Co-Chair, Archdiocese of Boston Social Justice Ministry
-Keynote address by Andrea Vincini, S.J., Chair of the Boston College Theology Department, delving into the critical issue of climate change and the scriptural mandate to steward God’s creation.
Panel discussion: Hope for our Common Home
An engaging moderated discussion with three diverse panelists, representing global, local, student, and government perspectives on action.
Victoria Sechrist, CatholicTV (Moderator); Representative from -Catholic Relief Services; Mary Wambui, Archdiocese of Boston Planning Office for Urban Affairs; and Matt Spearing, St. John's Prep.
Small 40-minute workshops focused on pressing environmental and climate issues and actions.
Opportunities to connect with representatives from organizations working on education and action to address threats to our Common Home and climate justice.
Workshops & Resource Center
-A Faith That Does Justice (AFTDJ)
-Archdiocese of Boston Labor Guild
-Archdiocese of Boston Planning Office for Urban Affairs
-Archdiocese of Boston Pro-Life Office
-Archdiocese of Boston Secretariat for Evangelization and Discipleship
-Boston Catholic Climate Movement (Laudato Si' Movement)
-Boston College High School
-Boston Tree Alliance
-Catholic Climate Covenant
-Catholic Relief Services
-Catholic Youth Climate Leaders
-Boston College High School
-Fontbonne Academy
-St. John's Prep
-Xaverian High School
-CatholicTV
-Eco Spirituality
-Eversource
-Gardening for God
-Greenroots
-Green Century-Eco Investing
-Holy Hospitality
-Ignatian Solidarity Network
-Just Faith
-Laudato Si' Parishes
-Loyola Press
-Manomet Conservation Sciences
-Mass Catholic Indigenous Rights
-Parish Weatherization
-The Saintly 6 - campaign for canonization of 6 African American religious (St. Catherine Drexel Parish, Boston, MA.)
-The Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society at Boston College
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Where is it happening?
Boston College High School, Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
