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Gathering Topic: THE GREEN POPE: WHY CALL IT PROGRESS by  Austen Ivereigh from the October Commonweal & THE ENVIRONMENT  from the 2017-2018 Conversational Starter Series available at our display in the Saint Noel Gathering Area which includes the following past Commonweal articles: the most import of which is  EMBRACING OUR LIMITS by Rowan Williams (September 23, 2015 ) former Archbishop of Canterbury and prominent theologian. as well as NO TIME TO WASTE  by Anthony Annett (September 26, 2016) HISPANICS LEAD US CATHOLICS ON CLIMATE CHANGE by Katie Rose Quandt   (March 11, 2015) THE GREEN POPE AND THE ENVIRONMENT provides a four page overview of the four articles listed above and is also included in the Saint Noel Conversation Starter packet Place and Time: The Resurrection Room, Saint Noel Parish 6:00 -7:00 pm Gathering time, introductions, and preliminary thoughts 7:00-8:30pm Discussion of the articles

The Green Pope WHY CALL IT PROGRESS? Francis’s radical critique of the way we live now Austen Ivereigh Discussion Outline     Is the teaching of Francis best described as being in continuity with John Paul II and Benedict (i.e. saying the same thing) or as a development of their teaching (building upon their foundation to reach new conclusions)/      Is Francis being critical of the political right for advocating total economic freedom, unrestrained consumption, the right to carry guns, and the death penalty, and of the left for advocating birth control, abortion, same sex marriage, and gender modification? Are both the left and the right destroying our ecology in the name of progress?      What is an integral ecology? Some definitions of integral: “necessary to make a whole complete; fundamental; essential to completeness; composed of constituent parts; lacking nothing essential: entire”      In the natural world, the family, or social and political sp