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'Laudato Si’: How Pope Francis Enlists St. Francis of Assisi to Understand Climate Change'

Presented by Colorado College at Film Screening Room at Colorado College - Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, Colorado Springs CO

Mar 29 2018

‘Laudato Si’: How Pope Francis Enlists St. Francis of Assisi to Understand Climate Change’ presented by Colorado College at Film Screening Room at Colorado College - Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, Colorado Springs CO

This lecture, ‘Laudato Si’: How Pope Francis Enlists St. Francis of Assisi to Understand Climate Change’, is presented by Professor J. Matthew Ashley of the University of Notre Dame, Department of Theology.

This lecture is presented by Professor J. Matthew Ashley of the University of Notre Dame, Department of Theology.

Living in a distant age, Saint Francis of Assisi seems hardly an apt guide for making the difficult economic and political decisions required of us, or solving the complex scientific and technological problems that arise as we face global climate change and other environmental challenges. Yet, face them we must, for the sake of future generations. Why did Pope Francis begin and end