Catherine McAuley and Earth: Catalina McAuley y Nuestra Tierra

Editor: To mark this year's Earth Day, Mary C Sullivan rsm (Americas) shares with us Catherine McAuley's understanding of earth and our responsibility to care for our common home.

“Ecology” was not a term with which Catherine McAuley (1778-1841) could have been familiar.  However, many of her sayings and comments reveal the basic principles underlying her sense of the “world” (as she understood Earth), her attitudes toward it and all life on it, and her commitment to the personal efforts and sacrifices entailed in “ecological conversion and spirituality” (to use Pope Francis’s thoughtful expression)...

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«Ecología» no fue un término con el que Catalina McAuley (1778-1841) tal vez hubiera estado familiarizada.  Sin embargo, muchos de sus dichos y comentarios revelan los principios básicos subyacentes a su sentido del «mundo» (según ella entendió a nuestra Tierra), sus actitudes hacia ella y toda la vida en ella, y su compromiso a los esfuerzos y sacrificios personales en la conversión y espiritualidad «ecológica» (para utilizar la considerada expresión del Papa Francisco)...

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