Very well said. I'm glad we've started to embrace taking care of the resources we all depend on

Great video. Catholics and followers of every sect must realize that the divinity of God is found in nature and preservation.

God bless.

Wow, great video. I do still believe more in science. Yeah, thank you for helping me answer my module for my Theology class. Very well thought of. God bless. hehe

@CatholicCentralVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Glad we could help! Check out our episode on Creation and Evolution to hear more about the relationship between the Church and science.

LOVE this

Please subtitles the videos!!!!!!! I am english learner. Thank you for your channel

@CatholicCentralVideos

4 жыл бұрын

Matheus Andrade what language do you speak?

@matheusandrade9910

4 жыл бұрын

​@@CatholicCentralVideosPortuguese, I am from Brazil. I understood around 75% of the video, but there are some moments fast or with new words, and that is great!

@CatholicCentralVideos

4 жыл бұрын

We are working on putting captions on all of our videos!

@matheusandrade9910

4 жыл бұрын

@@CatholicCentralVideos Thank you very much

I think American catholics need to be uniting with NAtive Americans more, especially with the native american wisdom, philosophy and prophecy. Really got to be fighting hard for the environment right now, Mother earth is at danger levels of pollution

@CatholicCentralVideos

3 жыл бұрын

CelticCC, Yes, we all need to unite in our care for God’s creation, and our Native American sisters and brothers have certainly set beautiful examples. In the Christian tradition there is Saint Francis of Assisi, patron of the environment, in love with nature and devoted to all living things. He even went so far as to give sermons to stones! In his spirituality he was united with souls caring for an unknown continent on the opposite side of the world, well before we called them Native Americans. “Praise be to you, my Lord,” he prayed, “through Sister Earth our Mother who sustains and governs us.” Amen to that!

I am catholic and I miss a better way of handling the issue about having too many children since the over population os one of the facts of pressure on the Environment.

@CatholicCentralVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Ana Paula, In his book on care for the environment, "Laudate Si", Pope Francis questions whether population growth is the threat to the planet’s health that is often claimed. He argues that “instead of resolving the problems of the poor and thinking of how the world can be different, some can only propose a reduction in the birth rate.” His point is that while we can't deny the impact that population growth has on the environment, the link between high population and global warming isn't always clear-cut. As an op-ed piece in the New York Times notes, “The two areas of the world that continue to have high growth, sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia, are also impoverished areas with low emissions of greenhouse gases.” Additionally, many developed nations now have a birth-rate that is at or below replacement. The Church is asking us to prayerfully discern having children while maintaining openness to life. Our decisions will of course be personal, based on each family’s particular situation. Unfortunately, looking out at the world, we can always find reasons for not having children, which has devolved into the tragedy of people not getting married or having families. All the more reason to be clear about the relationship between the environment and birth-rate, and why the church calls us to look at the bigger picture of how we live in a global community that’s in dire need of systemic change. The use of fossil fuels is the source of the majority of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., according to the EPA. The proliferation of plastics in a throwaway culture, deforestation to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for beef production, the use of our oceans as a disposal site - these and many other global abuses are statistically tied to our planet’s ills. “To blame population growth instead of extreme and selective consumerism on the part of some,” concludes the pope in "Laudate Si", “is one way of refusing to face the issues. “

We all can do better, but huge corporations like oil/gas dont want to change or allow advances in technology that will "dethrone" the oil tycoons. Many advances in technology never see the light of day (like Nikola Tesla's wireless electricity) because energy corporations cant make money from it.

@CatholicCentralVideos

2 жыл бұрын

Yes Dalton, a lot of companies resist changing over their tried and true profit schemes. Even so, Tesla's stifled revolution aside, many corporations that historically resisted change ultimately made the move from radio to TV, telegraph to telephone, gaslight to electric light and the whole world to digital without dethroning the tycoons and even creating more of them. We're not happy about the tycoons, especially those who make 1000 times more than their lowest-paid workers, but our point is that change is often possible within corporate structures if they find it's what their customers want and if the tides of technology and circumstance are favorable. We as consumers can and must put pressure on corporations by monitoring the investments we make, the companies we patronize, and the brands we buy. Meantime as Catholics we have to take our day-to-day responsibilities seriously as partners making the world a cleaner, safer, more beautiful place. Each of us is tasked to do what we can to help the environment by action and word. Thanks for your observations, and for joining us.