The Saint Kateri Conservation Center was featured in a wonderful article by Cara Buckley of the New York Times. The article appeared online on December 2, 2021 and in print on December 3, 2021. The article was featured on the front page of both editions. The online article was viewed by more than 400,000 people, … Read more
Read original article By Nick Mayrand, CRUX Ronnie O’Brien, a Catholic from Nebraska, has spent the past seventeen years working with Deb Echo-Hawk, Keeper of the Seeds for the Pawnee Nation in Oklahoma, on a project close to the heart of both women: Bringing back the Pawnee’s sacred ancestral corn from the brink of extinction. … Read more
Read original CRL blog post Saint John Paul II has stated that we, as a people, are in need of an “ecological conversion.” During his address to a general audience in 2001, he said “at stake, then, is not only a ‘physical’ ecology that is concerned to safeguard the habitat of the various living beings, … Read more
Read original article By Christopher White, National Correspondent, CRUX Colorful wildflowers frame the peak of Byron Glacier near Girwood, Alaska, July 3, 2019. Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home” was widely lauded for its scope on the moral and ethical response to protecting Earth’s environment for future generations. (Credit: … Read more
By Peter Jesserer Smith, National Catholic Register Read original article A new U.N. report on biodiversity loss is propelling the Church to move forward on Benedict XVI and Francis’ call to action to care for creation. Human beings are looking at a staggering loss of global biodiversity as more than a million species — approximately … Read more
By CathNews, Australian Catholics Bishop Conference Read original article “It’s my first GoFundMe campaign,” said Bill Jacobs, co-founder and president of the Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Conservation Centre. Speaking to CNA about the centre’s “Rescue Saint Kateri Reliquary!” campaign, he explained: “Our hope is to raise enough money and get it back into the hands of … Read more
Read original article By Catholic Ecology Thanks to 21st century crowd sourcing, a relic of a 17th century saint can now come home. It took only ten days for a unique GoFundMe campaign to make history with the rescue of a precious reliquary that—it appears—holds a priceless first-class relic of St. Kateri Tekakwitha—patroness of ecology … Read more
Read original article By Stephen Williams, The Daily Gazette An online fundraiser is underway to help supporters of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha acquire a rare relic and return it to the Roman Catholic Church. Organizers are hoping to buy a historic plated-silver box containing a piece of one of the saint’s bones that was previously in … Read more
Read original article ADELAIDE MENA/CNA/EWTN NEWS, National Catholic Register Albany, N.Y., Jan 30, 2016 / 04:13 pm (CNA/EWTN News)- Catholic faithful are banding together to help rescue a possible relic of St. Kateri Tekawitha in a strange – and thoroughly modern – way: by using a crowdsourcing internet forum. “It’s my first GoFundMe,” said Bill … Read more
Read original article By Artur Rosman, Patheos Catholic “materialism” causes strange conundrums and very interesting GoFundMe campaigns. For example, the Catholic cult of the saints sometimes gives rise to causes such as this one… Proof of authenticity, but I’m no expert. (Source: GoFundMe Campaign, used by permission of anonymous owner, all rights reserved). The Saint Kateri Tekakwitha … Read more