"None of this Pansy Catholic Fasting"

Heard about this one from Deacon's Bench. I'm actually quite fond of what Fr. John McCarthy S.J. has decided to do for Lent. We really do miss how important care of ecology is. Hopefully Fr. McCarthy is aware of the proper ordering of those goods. That ecology has an important place in the Christian life, but that it is secondary to other elements of the Gospel.

For the ecologist-priest the fast is a way of fighting the frustration of working for something that is often neglected and sometimes misunderstood even in the church.

"You can have a growing sense of hopelessness, or even cynicism, because nothing seems to get done despite all our best efforts over the years."

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McCarthy has come across Catholics who dismiss any spirituality of ecology as pantheistic, watered-down Christianity with no sense of tradition.

“I don’t think they really fully understand the Catholic tradition at its heart,” said McCarthy. “Even just coming back to the basic Creed. On a Sunday we profess God as creator of all things seen and unseen. Very fundamentally, it’s at the heart of our faith. (We believe in) Jesus Christ, through whom all things were made — that is, if you pray the Nicene Creed. And then the Spirit, the giver of all life. It’s at the heart of our view of the Trinity. At the heart of our faith there is that creation-centred focus.”

I think there's something useful about this.

Full story here.