Transforming the Church and Society through Care for our Common Home

Transforming the Church and Society through Care for our Common Home
Date: December 4, 2024
Time: 7:30 – 8:45 p.m. ET

The Catholic faith tradition offers both deep theological and ethical resources for addressing the climate crisis, as well as the inspiration and hope needed for critically needed action throughout society. The Catholic moral imagination provides a vision of an inclusive and sustainable future, and already existing practical action plans are guiding large-scale change. As Pope Francis writes, “Truly, much can be done!”

Presenter: Erin Lothes, Ph.D., is a Catholic theologian and author of Inspired Sustainability: Planting Seeds for Action (Orbis 2016) and The Paradox of Christian Sacrifice:The Loss of Self, The Gift of Self (Herder and Herder, 2007), as well as many articles on faith-based environmentalism, divestment, and energy ethics.  Dr. Lothes was an associate professor of theology for ten years and is now senior manager of the Laudato Si Animators Program with the Laudato Si Movement.  She has been a long-time collaborator with many faith-based environmental coalitions such as the Catholic Climate Covenant, GreenFaith, the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale, and the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, where she is presently a visiting scholar.  Most recently, she has written a commentary to introduce the Orbis Books paper publication of Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum.

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