DEAR SISTERS AND BROTHERS,

“Australia is on fire” shouted the headlines. And, for once, the picture images and the maps and the messages from family who live down under, concurred. Storm Ciara hit the UK and flooding (again) impacted Bury, among other places. Water temperature under the icecaps is rising, the caps themselves are shrinking. Something is happening on a global scale.

The Pope wrote an encyclical, a formal letter, to the church in 2015. It was called “Laudato si’”, the subtitle of which was “care for our common home”. Read More…