By Barbara Fraser EarthBeat May 21, 2021 The panther's greenish eyes, staring directly at the viewer, are hypnotic. Caught in a moment of calm, etched against a golden background, it seems to be waiting. But this is no ordinary painting. The Florida panther is an...
By Judith Best Global Sisters Report April 19, 2021 During this pandemic in which — at the time of this writing in late June — more than 124,000 Americans had died of COVID-19, seven School Sisters of Notre Dame met for a five-day retreat. We reflected on the vision...
By Brian Roewe EarthBeat April 9, 2021 Ten years ago, evolutionary cosmologist Brian Swimme took television viewers on a daylong journey to the tiny Greek isle of Samos to tell the nearly 14-billion-year tale of a vast, unfolding universe, from clouds of space dust...
By Peter Feuerherd EarthBeat April 2, 2021 NEW YORK — Seeing Fr. Thomas Berry's portrait on the walls of the Passionist monastery and retreat house in Jamaica, New York, it is difficult to imagine a time when the priest who helped enshrine the environment as a central...
By Magda Bennásar Global Sisters Report January 7, 2021 Yes, we can approach Mother Nature. Yes, we can hug the trees. Yes, we can embrace the waves and let the air we breathe permeate us slowly and firmly like God's Spirit: hugging, embracing and permeating our whole...
By Elise D. García EarthBeat May 29, 2020 We mark the fifth anniversary of "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home" against the backdrop of a global pandemic that has infected more than 5.5 million people and claimed more than 355,000 lives around the world. Far...
By Fr. Reynaldo D. Raluto Minda News September 5, 2020 Since 2015, the Season of Creation is celebrated globally from September 1 to October 4. This year, however, the celebration in the Philippines is extended until October 11, which is the Indigenous Peoples Sunday,...
By Valerie Andrews Reinventing Home Summer 2020 A scholar and a Passionist priest who called himself a “geologian,” Berry was fluent in fourteen languages and widely read in the disciplines of archaeology, philosophy, cosmology, religion, earth science and world...
By Dean Dettloff America: The Jesuit Review August 23, 2019 Excerpt from the article: St. Gabriel’s was the first church in Canada to be certified by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or L.E.E.D., rating system. From its floor plan to its building...
The Gaia Foundation June 2019 As a cultural historian, Thomas Berry reminded us that civilisations which grow rapidly by destroying their life support system, collapse rapidly too. What is required of us now, he insisted, is to transform from a human-centred to an...