Climate Change \u2013 despite some prominent naysayers \u2013 is happening.\n<\/p>\n
Because the Earth is \u2018our common home\u2019. It is our only home and has to be shared by everyone. Also, the regions most affected by Climate Change are often where the poorest communities live.\n<\/p>\n
All sorts of things! We can look at how we live our own lives and make some personal changes. We can join with others to take community actions \u2013 including lobbying our politicians to make sure they understand how much we care about the state of our planet.\n<\/p>\n
\nPope Francis\u2019s encyclical Laudato Si<\/em> is an inspirational way to start delving into Climate Change more deeply and features prominently in our suggestions below for finding out more and doing more.<\/p>\n \nTo help you we have a download of a summary of his main points, this was prepared by Michael Emly from the CAFOD Group in Our Lady of Kirkstall parish in NW Leeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":95,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13451","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13451\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nlatest news<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Find out more – do more<\/h2>\n\n\nThis includes Commission members, Laudato Si animators and others who are interested and want to do more.\n\nYou are welcome to join in their meetings. Simply email jandp@dioceseofleeds.org.uk and we will put you in touch with the group co-ordinator Trish Sandbach, Commission vice-chair.\nNeed a good motif for your Climate change event??\n\nCathy Mc.Partlan has given permission for the free use of this image\nLiturgy Suggestions \u2013 some ideas about prayers and hymns and where to look for more (8 page A5 PDF booklet)\nCAFOD is not just about responding to disasters or feeding people in developing countries. An integral part of their work is advocating on behalf of the poor so that their stories can be heard.\n\nCAFOD campaigns hard about Climate Change and how it impacts on poor people across the world.\n\nSee what resources CAFOD have for exploring these issues in your parish.\n\n\nKey Quotes from Laudato Si that can be used as a short reflection (perhaps aided by some suitable images?) . A two page PDF\nDownload this booklet to read all the climate change articles in our newsletters from 2014 up to March 2024.\n\nNB This PDF is designed to be printed on either A5 or A4 duplex printers with the PDF print set up set to \u2018booklet\u2019\nSome of you may remember CAFOD\u2019s Live Simply\u2019 campaign from a few years ago.\n\nWell, now you can work to make your parish a \u2018Live Simply\u2019 parish.\n\nThe Live Simply Award Scheme is a great way to involve all sorts of people in your parish to contribute through prayer, individual action and community action towards living in solidarity with the poor and taking better steps to care for our \u2018common home\u2019.\n\n\n
James Martin SJ Summary of Laudato Si<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you want a snappy assessment of Laudato Si then try this video by American Jesuit James Martin\nDownload our summary of the summary!\nJames Martin takes all of this at a fair pace.\n