Environmental Justice Subcommittee
Our Mission & Goals
Rather than focus on why people don’t support a stronger relationship with God’s earth, the Environmental Justice Subcommittee works to examine and explain what can motivate individuals and groups to improve the condition of the environment through direct action and advocacy in support of nature.
- Improve the environmental footprint of our parish, it’s members, and the community.
- To conduct direct action by implementing composting programs, tree plantings, neighborhood clean ups, energy reduction strategies, and other environmental efforts that improve our footprint through collaboration within the parish and with partners.
- To educate each other through information sharing and speakers who can help us accomplish these goals.
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Justice & Peace Committee Meeting
Justice & Peace Committee Meeting
The Justice & Peace Committee of Saint Ignatius Catholic Community is dedicated to the service of faith and the promotion of justice. As a parish, we are called and challenged
Current Projects & Events
A New Work of Mercy: Care for Our Common Home
On September 1, 2016, Pope Francis introduced a new work of mercy: care for our
common home. If the Church has acknowledged the traditional fourteen works of mercy
for over seven hundred years, why does this generation require a new one? In his 2015
encyclical, Laudato Si, Pope Francis exhorts us to address what he calls the ecological
crisis: “Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last
two hundred years” (LS 53).
Catholic Climate Control Covenant
We ask for the grace that is needed so that we may all come to respect and care for God’s creation. Laudato Si’ teaches us that everything is connected. In this pandemic year, we are again reminded how true this is. Let us commit ourselves to create a more just and sustainable world together. The earth cries out, and science tells us, that we have no time to waste. Our actions are more critical now than ever.
Walking the Walk: Electric Personalities
Periodically, the St. Ignatius Justice and Peace Environmental Justice Subcommittee will feature parishioners inspiring others with their commitment to our common home. This week we feature Tracie Allen.
Areas That Always Need Action
Tree Planting
Composting
Neighborhood Clean-ups
Sign up for a cleanup of the Jonestown neighborhood.
(details coming soon)
The Green Library
Check out the new Green Library in Ignatian Hall . You will find over a hundred books and articles on the environment. Books are arranged by author. You are welcome to take a book home but please return to the shelves after you have enjoyed it.
Current Environmental Reads
- Environmental Justice: A Catholic Voice
- To Save the Earth, Curb Militarism! An Appeal for Earth Day, 2018
- Encyclical Letter: Laudato Si
- Laudato Si: Download Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment and human ecology
- Blue Water Baltimore
- Other Available Resources
