The Season of Creation, Magnifica Humanitas Introduction, and an interview with Steve Schneck
Heidi, Daniel, and David dive in to the new papal encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, for a season-long exploration of its themes and meanings. They also catch up on their summer activities, and ponder what it means to journey through the Season of Creation during a time of increasing climate peril. Then Heidi interviews Steve Schneck, president of Catholics for the Future.
TOP OF SHOW
Heidi’s Commonweal article on Catholic Social Teaching
Heidi’s article on “The Sheep Detectives”
Heidi’s article on Synodality
Daniel’s NCR column on his recent life updates
The City and the Cross, the Commonweal podcast mini-series about Black Catholics in Detroit
The Georgetown University American Pilgrimage Project, which David has helped to editing and production work for
SEGMENT 1 - The Season of Creation
One of several Elon Musk tweets about geo-engineering (and related article)
Heidi mention of Italian document and the concept of '“ecological sin”
Patriarch Bartholomew, the “Green Patriarch”
Daniel’s NCR column on the centrality of water in the Season of Creation
St. Francis of Assisi - Canticle of the Creatures
SEGMENT 2 - Magnifica Humanitas (Introduction, Paragraphs 1-16)
Magnifica Humanitas, Introduction
The Tower of Babel and the Book of Nehemiah
Para. 13 - We all have our sections of the wall to mend
Heidi’s recent piece on Catholic Social Teaching
“Hugging Face” incident
Para. 9 - Channeling Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI - “Technology has the power to heal… or to exclude…”
Picture of Pope Benedict’s first tweet
David’s recent essay on AI for The Christian Century
David’s recent essay on AI in the classroom