Everything is Connected: Pope Francis and Integral Ecology
4 p.m. in Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Throughout his recent encyclical Laudato Si’ Pope Francis insists that “everything is connected”: humankind is connected to the ecosystems in which we live, and social problems such as poverty and technological development are connected to our misuse of the natural environment. Although richly drawing on the Christian tradition, Francis points us in radical new directions by asking us to re-imagine what it means to be human in light of our place in the natural world.

Matthew Shadle is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. His expertise is in the tradition of Catholic social teaching and in Christian ethical thought on war and peace and economic justice. He has published The Origins of War: A Catholic Perspective (Georgetown, 2011) and articles in several theological journals. He and his wife live in Woodbridge, Virginia.

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