Our Christian responsibility for the planet begins with appreciation of the goodness of all of God’s creation: “God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good” (Gen 1:31) In December 2023, the diocesan curia offices at St Boniface house received the...
The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly referred to as COP28, will be the 28th United Nations Climate Change conference, held from 30 November until 12 December 2023. The Lead Bishop for Environmental...
Season of Creation ran from 1 September to 4 October and Caritas Diocese of Plymouth invited parishes to share any actions they took during that period. The Exeter CAFOD/Live Simply group organised an Ecumenical Service of Creation at Blessed Sacrament Church on 2...
Pope Francis has released his Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum, ‘Praise God’, to ‘clarify and complete’ what he started in 2015 with his Encyclical Letter Laudato si’ on how we care for our common home. It has been released at the end of the Season of Creation on...
Sam, a final-year student at the University of Exeter, joined the Columban Missionaries during Laudato Si’ Week this year, following in the footsteps of St Columban to reflect on ‘the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor’. We wanted to share his reflections in the...
“Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!” (Amos 5: 24). As part of our reflections during this Season of Creation (1 September-4 October), we asked the Holy Family parish in Bournemouth to share their environmental work and how it...
