July 13, 2015

  • Children paddle in water in Navotas City, Philippines, May 10. The Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences wants to set up 22 "climate change desks" that would support action plans to mitigate the impact of climate change and to study Pope Francis's Laudato Si' encyclical. (CNS photo / Ritchie B. Tongo, EPA)

"Our response cannot be to go backwards – that is impossible. Rather we enter the future from this paradigm acknowledging its strengths and limits so as to include that which is of value as we continue outward interpreting our reality from this new place."

- Nancy Sylvester, from Laudato Si': A call to contemplation, published on Global Sisters Report July 2, 2015