{"id":8369,"date":"2015-09-30T13:29:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T18:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=8369"},"modified":"2015-09-30T13:29:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T18:29:02","slug":"laudato-si-study-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/laudato-si-study-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Laudato Si study group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Xavier faculty are encouraged to participate \u2014\u00a0and to invite your students! <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xulacat\/21718322621\/\" title=\"Laudato Si study group\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/597\/21718322621_61f4b3da01.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Laudato Si study group\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\"Concern for nature, justice for the poor, commitment to society and interior peace.\" <\/p>\n<p>These are the themes of Pope Francis' encyclical, <em>Laudato Si': On care for our common home<\/em>, published this summer. World leaders and prominent scientists have praised it as a work of \"enormous significance\" and an \"amazing gift\" in the ongoing political struggle over climate change. <\/p>\n<p>Please join our campus-wide study group in which we'll read and discuss this important work. Participants will receive a copy of the encyclical in book form. This is an interfaith effort, open to people of all faiths or no faith. Open to staff, faculty, and students.<\/p>\n<p>First meeting will take place in UC 201, 4-5:30 PM, Monday, 26 October. We anticipate three meetings over the academic year as interest dictates. <\/p>\n<p>Contact <a href=\"mailto:cat@xula.edu\">cat@xula.edu<\/a> or call 520-5164 to register or for more information.<\/p>\n<p><small>Sponsored by Campus Ministry, Department of Theology, Department of Political Science, and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching. <\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Xavier faculty are encouraged to participate \u2014\u00a0and to invite your students! \"Concern for nature, justice for the poor, commitment to society and interior peace.\" These are the themes of Pope Francis' encyclical, Laudato Si': On care for our common home, published this summer. World leaders and prominent scientists have praised it as a work <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/laudato-si-study-group\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Laudato Si study group\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[57,116,290],"class_list":{"0":"post-8369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-integrative","7":"tag-catholic","8":"tag-ecology","9":"tag-social-justice","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-2aZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13014,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/critical-versus-traditional-service-learning\/","url_meta":{"origin":8369,"position":0},"title":"Critical Versus Traditional Service-Learning","author":"Jeremy Tuman","date":"January 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent article in the\u00a0Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education\u00a0makes an interesting case about differences in efficacy between \"traditional\" and \"critical\" service learning courses. 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