Living as a Catholic Environment Resources to help us Care for Creation Information and Resources Monthly newsletters for your parish and community Please share these monthly newsletters, inspired by the Season of Creation and making small changes, with your parish. April 2024 Responding to the Call of Creation - April Responding to the Call of Creation- past editions Laudato Si' Action Platform The Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development’s Laudato Si’ Action Platform is a space for institutions, communities, and families to learn and grow together as we journey towards full sustainability in the holistic spirit of integral ecology. You are warmly invited to join this community. Explore the Laudato Si' Action Platform Laudato Si' Research Institute (Oxford) The Laudato Si’ Research Institute conducts cutting-edge multidisciplinary research for societal transformation on the most pressing ecological and social issues of our day. Carlos Zepeda, Laudato Si' Research Institute Talk Recorded Zoom Meeting from 8 April 2022 on the Laudato Si' movement: Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales Environment - As Christians we are inspired to be good stewards of the earth, to conserve and protect God’s creation and the earth’s resources. Visit CBCEW environment page Bishop John Arnold (Diocese of Salford) is the lead on the Environment for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. In Lent 2019, Bishop John announced the Laudato Si' centre in response to the current climate crisis and Pope Francis’s call for us all to care for our common home in his document Laudato Si'. The Archdiocese of Birmingham Climate Action group is inspired by this exciting project, which aims to make the Diocese of Salford a flagship for effective action on the environmental crisis. Helping people to tackle climate change, work towards a sustainable world and care for our common home. Laudato Si Centre Christian Responses to the Climate Emergency A six-session course for small groups, developed to help Christians respond to the Climate Emergency. By running the course, you’ll be invited to read, pray, discuss, and consider how we are called to react to the huge challenge facing us. Creation Care Course CAFOD The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development runs a number of campaigns focused on the environment. Reclaim Our Common Home Climate Livesimply Award The following communities have been awarded the Livesimply award in our Archdiocese: St Thomas More School, Willenhall St Mary's, Harborne St Peter's, Leamington Spa St John's, Tamworth Newman University, Birmingham Sacred Heart, Rugby Holy Trinity, Newcastle-under-Lyme Christ the King and Our Lady of Lourdes, Coventry St Mary of the Angels and Aldridge Parish, Walsall Sacred Heart, Coventry Corpus Christi, Oxford with Our Lady of Lourdes, Wheatley St Mary Immaculate, Warwick, and St Charles Borromeo, Hampton-on-the-Hill St Elizabeth’s, Coventry St Thomas More, Coventry Manage Cookie Preferences