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| Fr Sean McDonagh |
Earlier in 2015 Pope Francis issued his encyclical Laudato Si. This papal study of environmental issues precedes the 2015 UN Climate Change conference, which is due to take place in Paris from 30th November to 11th December. To mark these events, we have invited Fr Sean McDonagh SSC to give the second lecture in our autumn series.
Sean McDonagh is an Irish Columban Father who has
earned an international reputation as an eco-theologian. He has worked
tirelessly to raise awareness of the links between the values of justice and
peace, environmental sustainability and faith.
In his books and lectures, he has voiced his deep
concern about a number of ecological issues, including access to clean water
and an adequate diet in the developing world, nuclear power, genetic
engineering, loss of biodiversity and the extinction of species.
His published work includes Patenting Life? Stop! Is corporate greed forcing us to eat genetically
engineered food? (2003), The Death of
Life: the horror of extinction (2004), Climate
Change: the challenge to all of us (2006), and Fukushima: the death knell for nuclear energy? (2012). Fr Sean is also
patron of Christian Ecology Link and writes a weekly column in Catholic
broadsheet The Universe.
The title of his lecture in the Central Catholic
Library will be: “Laudato Si: does it
contain new teaching on the environment?”
The lecture takes
place at 6.30pm on Tuesday 3rd November and all are welcome.
