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Jacqui Remond Ambassador Catholic Education Week Queensland "Called to be stewards of a sustainable future"National Director of Catholic Earthcare Australia, Jacqui Remond, the Ambassador for Catholic Education Week, will visit schools in Townsville, Emerald, Clermont and Brisbane to share a message about the intrinsic link between sustainability and the Catholic faith. Jacqui will visit Townsville, Emerald and Brisbane as part of a full schedule of school visits and functions to mark the week of celebrations .
Jacqui's commitments will begin in Brisbane at St Joseph's, Kangaroo Point where she will be special guest and present awards to students who have participated in the One Earth activity. Click here to view Jacqui's itinerary.
Catholic Earthcare Australia and the Catholic Bible College in Johannesburg invite you to attend a two week intensive course entitled "Creation and Reconciliation".
Hear from presenters who were involved in the Struggle and in the social transformation of South Africa, together with scientists, theologians and educators with expertise in geology, human origins, biblical studies, and science and religious education
This is a fantastic opportunity for people involved as educators to study Creation in the cradle of human kind, and experience the effect of reconciliation on community. Click here to download the brochure.
The natural burial park in Kemps's Creek will not have headstones, but people can find their family members using GPS technology.
A GPS stick will be buried with the bodies and an electronic organiser is lent to visiting family members who want to find the exact location of the grave.
The Saint Francis Natural Burial Field was opened by the New South Wales state minister for lands Tony Kelly,
"We often hear about benefits of leaving a low carbon footprint during our lives," he said.
"Here we have the option to leave that low carbon footprint continuing on into the next life.
On hand to bless the new burial ground was Bishop Julian Porteous, the auxiliary bishop of Sydney and the head of Catholic Earth Care.
Jacqui Remond along with Frank Quinlan, Catholic Social Services, Susan Helyar, Uniting
Church and Ray Cleary, Anglican Church discuss the Federal
Government's recent budget.
Click here
to listen.
A Brazilian court has sentenced a rancher to 30 years for ordering the killing of the
environmental activist American nun, Sister Dorothy Stang.
Jurors in Belem found Vitalmiro Bastos Moura
guilty after 15 hours of deliberations, the New York Times
reports.
Prosecutors said Moura ordered her killing in
2005 because she blocked him from taking land the government gave
to farmers.
Moura was sentenced to 38 years in jail at a
first trial in 2007, but acquitted on retrial the following year,
BBC News notes...CathNews
People and Planet Diary & Wall Calendar 2011
Make this diary and wall calendar a part of your plan for 2011. Catholic Earthcare are delighted to be a part of the People and Planet: Social Justice and Environment Diary and Wall Calendar 2011. Please click here to register your interest.
Jacqui Remond's message for Queensland Catholic Education Week.
"If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation"
Pope Benedict XVI's message for the celebration of World Day of Peace. Please click here for more on this very important and powerful peace message.
Vatican Solar Panels
Ecological Conversion Programmes
ASSISI
Catholic Earthcare Australia
Creation
& Reconciliation
A two week intensive course at the Catholic Bible College,
Johannesburg.
Prayers of Intercession
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
