As we celebrate Laudato Si’ Week, you are invited to join in this reflection about the plight of the economically poor.
Carolyn Cromer Articles
Laudato Si’ Week: Align your finances with your faith values
In this week of celebrating the eighth anniversary of Laudato Si’, join the Laudato Si’ Movement and FaithInvest for a webinar on how our investments can match our faith values.
Laudato Si’ Week Prayer and Reflection
This week marks the eighth anniversary of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’: Care for our Common Home. Join us in a quiet reflection for God’s creation.
Marion C. Moore High School Students Volunteer at Nazareth
Thirty-six students, grades 8-12, visited Nazareth today to volunteer their time removing non-native invasive plants. ...
Happy Earth Day!
This year's Earth Day theme, chosen by the Catholic Climate Covenant, is "Simple Living: God's Vision of Abundant...
Spring in Nazareth Woods
Spring has arrived again at Nazareth, and new life is emerging. Please join Sister Kelly O'Mahony and the Office of...
Native Nature at Home Workshop
On Saturday, February 25th, the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth hosted a public workshop called Native Nature at Home....
Laudato Si’ Webinar: Daily ecology in a world where everything is connected
The Vatican's Laudato Si' Action Platform Team invites you to a monthly webinar series to learn about topics related...
Kenyan drought driven by climate change
Northern Kenya is experiencing a severe drought and famine, the worst drought for this region in forty years. A fifth...
Invasive plants 101 taught at Nazareth
Recently, the Office of Ecological Sustainability hosted a workshop at Nazareth on how to identify and remove invasive...
Daughter of Charity visits Nazareth
(Brenden Dines, Sharon Horace, DC, and Carolyn Cromer) Sister Sharon Horace of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent...
Season of Creation Earth Examen: Identifying with nature
Examen: Settle into a place in nature*. Ask yourself, why did you choose this place? What about it do you identify...
Season of Creation Earth Examen: Restoring nature
(Monarch habitat created at Nazareth simply by not mowing.) Reflection: Return to a place in nature that brings you...
Season of Creation Earth Examen: Listening to the voices that speak
(The image of life under the ocean was created by the Sisters of the Motherhouse and Carrico Hall.) Reflection: ...
Season of Creation Earth Examen: Ecological cycles of place
[An examen is a way of beholding an object or being present in prayerful wonder. Through a series of questions, you...
Season of Creation Earth Examen: Become aware of God’s presence
[An examen is a way of beholding an object or being present in prayerful wonder. Through a series of questions, you...
Season of Creation: “Listening to Creation” in Nazareth’s Woods
This Season of Creation, we are raising up the voices of those creatures and people whose voices too often go...
“Care for Earth” Through Renewable Energy
Jordan Greenway of SunWind Power Systems Inc. installs solar panels on the Crimmins rooftop at Nazareth, KY. The...
Laudato Si’ Week: Response to the Cry of those Living in Poverty
[Tess Browne, SCN, participating in the Poor People's Campaign in Massachusetts.] Social justice and environmental...
Laudato Si’ Week: Response to the Cry of the Earth
[Students and faculty of Nazareth Academy in Mokama, marching for Earth Day.] "There is a growing sensitivity to the...
Laudato Si’ Week: May 22-29, 2022
Next week is Laudato Si' Week, a celebration of Pope Francis's encyclical on the environment. In 2021, SCNs joined...
Catholic Social Teaching and the Environment- a retreat by Sr. Caroljean Willie, SC
Good things are growing in Nazareth fields
University of Louisville professor Dr. Jeff Masters and ecological sustainability director Carolyn Cromer checked on...
Annual Update from Office of Ecological Sustainability
Happy Earth Day! SCNs and SCNAs have been busy since last Earth Day supporting the mission to "care for the earth". ...
Laudato Si’ Lent
(“Mother Protection” by Brenda Ferrimani) “Today, however, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always...
SCNs’ Office of Ecological Sustainability Hosts Book Discussion on Climate Change
https://vimeo.com/675572317/7daf25ecf5 The SCNs’ Office of Ecological Sustainability hosted a book discussion for the...