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We want to respond to Pope Francis’s call for us all to care for our common home in his document Laudato Si. We want to call all to action. The parishes and schools of the Diocese of Salford have been issued with a challenge from Bishop John to take the environmental crisis more seriously and to make small changes in their own lives that would make a difference. We need to think how we can take practical action to tackle climate change that will help to work towards a sustainable world for future generations. 

 

Actions so far

  • We are emailing/parent mailing our newsletters and letters to parents to save paper.
  • We have asked our children to bring in re-useable bottles rather than using paper cups which create more waste.
  • Our school council met with the council to explore compartmentalising our lunch time waste so that some materials are recycled.
  • We encourage all our children to look after our environment. We have a gardening club which cares for our school grounds.
  • We have chosen an area of grass which we are going to have as our wild garden area.
  • We have talked to the diocese about how to make our building more sustainable.

What is Laudato Si'?

In Laudato Si' - On Care For Our Common Home, Pope Francis urges society to move away from the myth of perennial progress at the expense of the Earth’s resources, and calls on us to recognise that development which fails to respect the Earth is a false economy.

The encyclical says that at the root of the crisis we face our tendency to place humanity over and above the rest of creation. This is closely linked to the technocratic paradigm - the idea that we have confused the increase in control and manipulation of the world with progress. The Pope thinks we experience these ways of thinking as a consumerist culture characterised by wastefulness, indifference and the “rapidification” of daily life. All this, he suggests, is to the detriment of relationships with ourselves, our neighbours, the earth and God.

Instead, we need a new definition of progress rooted in “integral ecology”, recognising that “everything is connected” and hearing both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. Pope Francis calls for all people to dialogue in society about how best to tackle the global issues we face.

Though a common plan is needed, he says, there are differentiated responsibilities and we require an approach that puts care for the very poorest at the centre of the way we live our lives.

"We are Guardians of Creation."

Laudato Si Prayer

https://cafod.org.uk/News/UK-news/Pope-Francis-encyclical

Papa Francesco Enciclica Laudato Si

 

https://cafod.org.uk/content/download/29669/338389/version/3/file/CAFOD%20Laudato%20Si%20poster.pdf

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