September Is Care for Creation Month!
Category: Caring for Creation
September has been designated “Care of Creation” month.
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Care of Earth at the World Meeting of Families
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, Philanthropic Initiatives
The World Meeting of Families will begin Tuesday, August 21, in Dublin, Ireland, and culminates on Sunday, August 26, with Pope Francis celebrating Mass with an estimated 600,000 pilgrims in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.
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Five FSM Attend Sisters of Earth Conference
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates
Srs. Sherri Coleman, Jeanne Derer, Irma Kennebeck, Marge O’Gorman, and Sandy Schwartz, all members of the FSM Focus Implementation Group, attended the Sisters of Earth Conference at Mount St. Joseph University on the grounds of the Sisters of Charity in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 12 to 15.
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St. Louis Review Shines Spotlight on West Lake
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, West Lake Landfill
The efforts to clean up the radioactive wastes resulting from the Manhattan Project in the St. Louis area were the focus of an in-depth story, “Chain Reaction,” published in the St. Louis Review.
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International Day of Forests
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates
The FSM Focus Implementation Group wishes to call your attention to an often-overlooked proclamation—the International Day of Forests (IDF), which occurs March 21 each year.
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Gateway Greening Holds Conference
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates
Gateway Greening, an FSM collaborator that sponsors organic, sustainable community gardens in the St. Louis area, held its annual Community Agriculture Conference Sunday, February 25, 2018. Five FSM—Srs. Sherri Coleman, Jeanne Derer, André Evanicsko, Marge O’Gorman, and Sandy Schwartz—attended.
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A Letter on West Lake Landfill
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, West Lake Landfill
Sr. Sherri Coleman, FSM, wrote a letter urging the complete removal of all radioactive waste at West Lake Landfill; the letter was published Monday, February 26, 2018, in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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West Lake–Your Response Is Needed!
Category: Caring for Creation, West Lake Landfill
The EPA’s proposed remedy for the radioactive waste illegally buried at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, Mo., removes only 70 percent of the radioactive waste, leaving 30 percent of the lethal material still in place. The Franciscan Sisters of Mary, in accord with neighbors and others concerned about our environment, find this remedy unacceptable.
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FSM Honors Forest ReLeaf
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, Philanthropic Initiatives
Sr. Judy Bell, FSM Leadership, presented Donna Coble, executive director of Forest ReLeaf, with a contribution to support construction of the new pollinator garden at Forest ReLeaf’s center in Creve Coeur Park in St. Louis County.
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Mary Evelyn Tucker: Reflection on Laudato Si’
Category: Caring for Creation
Dr. Mary Evelyn Tucker, who for many years collaborated with eco-theologian and Earth scholar Fr. Thomas Berry, will deliver the keynote address at Our Sacred Earth, Our Common Home: Reflection and Action on Laudato Si’.
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