Cardinal Turkson gave an incredible talk this morning on “Laudato Si’ and the Vocation to Agriculture.” While he definitely did not hold back in frankly addressing the challenges and even injustices in contemporary food production, he also reaffirmed that farming is a noble vocation. If you don’t have time to read his full speech, definitely check […]
Farming is a “noble vocation” that should be marked by gratitude and responsibility, Cardinal Peter Turkson told an international gathering of agricultural leaders in Milan this morning. While true of other human pursuits, this is especially the case for agriculture, because food is “essential to human life,” and not just “another product,” said the cardinal, […]
The following post is written by Dr. Mark Neuzil, a professor and journalist from the University of St. Thomas, who is in Milan taking part in the Faith, Food & the Environment symposium. Follow him on Twitter. Food and culture are permanently mixed; it is difficult to have a complete understanding of each without the […]
The stage is set for the international edition of the Faith, Food & the Environment symposium, which will take place at EXPO 2015 within the city limits of Milan, one of Italy’s most cosmopolitan and dynamic metropolises. But in the lead-up to the symposium, which begins with dinner on Friday night, participants aren’t staying among […]
The following article was written by Bill Patenaude for Catholic Ecology. It is re-posted here with his permission. It could very well be that as you read this sentence more people are talking about Pope Francis’s planned eco-encyclical than are discussing his first one on faith—or for that matter his first apostolic exhortation, or any encyclical […]
The following article was written by Bill Patenaude for Catholic Ecology. It is re-posted here with his permission. To understand the second day of the Faith, Food, and the Environment Symposium, one must consider that it was a Thursday, the day traditionally reserved for the Luminous Mysteries when reciting the Rosary. This is important because—while unscripted […]
The following article was written by Bill Patenaude for Catholic Ecology. It is re-posted here with his permission. You know a conversation is going somewhere good when people are saying the same things from the start. And you know a conference on faith, food, and the environment is going great places when from the beginning farmers, […]
Father Michael Czerny, the Chief of Staff to the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, will attend the Faith, Food & the Environment symposium in place of Cardinal Peter Turkson. The cardinal has been called upon by Pope Francis to strengthen the Vatican’s response to the growing needs of the local church in […]