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Catholic University’s McLean Center Jointly Hosts Pre-Congress Event: “Discerning Boundaries: Philosophy across Cultures” April 26th, 2024
In partnership with the 25th World Congress of Philosophy (WCP) “Philosophy across Boundaries,” the
Council for Research in Values and Philosophy along with the CUA McLean Center for the Study of Culture and Values will hold its pre-Congress conference on the theme of “Discerning Boundaries: Philosophy across Cultures” at the Department of Philosophy of Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, July 29-31, 2024. The Department of Philosophy is located at the historical Villa Mirafiori (Via Carlo Fea 2, 00161 Rome, Italy ). It is under the auspices of Sapienza University of Rome and the 25th World Congress of Philosophy.
The Council, as usual, invites all philosophers, scholars, thinkers of the world, who are interested in the conference thematic, to come together to converse and share insights, ideas, and experiences from different philosophical and cultural traditions.
CLICK HERE for more information and to register.
Visit the World Congress of Philosophy (WCP) Rome’s website.
Visit the McLean Center’s website: www.crvp.org.
(Rev. George F. McLean, OMI)
The McLean Center for the Study of Culture and Values (MCSCV) is one of the Catholic University of America’s (CUA) research centers established in 2000. Its original name was The Center for the Study of Culture and Values with a financial support from the McLean Family via Rev. George F. McLean OMI (1929-2016), the founding director. The Center was renamed after McLean in 2017. It hosts various projects of the International Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP) which is its outreach agent.
Mission: Mining the work of the Spirit in each people. Culture is best understood as the cumulative dialogue through history between the initiative of the Spirit and the responses of humankind in its varied environments. The goal of the MCSCV is to promote a creative mining of the resulting cultural traditions and their application to the issues of contemporary life.
Calling All Nature Enthusiasts!Three Part Harmony Farm Hosts Annual Open House This Weekend April 26th, 2024
Three Part Harmony Farm OPEN HOUSE 
Saturday, April 27 from 10am to 1PM @ 3122 4th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20017
It’s time for the annual spring open house at Three Part Harmony Farm!
This is the first of two (only two) public events we have each year. The other public event is the fall festival which will be held on Saturday, November 2. We will open the gates wide and welcome all of the CSA members plus Brookland and Edgewood neighbors (Washington, DC) as well as all farm friends/ family.
Please join us!
THEME
Our theme this year is “tea time at the farm“, inspired by the main activity: a three-part workshop led by Farmer and Chef Kiki Hamilton. The workshop is divided into three 30-minute segments, each highlighting a unique tea and herb-based tea time food. All of the herbs featured are grown at Three Part Harmony Farm. You will learn about growing, harvesting, processing and **storing** herbs and of course learn how to make 3 delightful beverages and 3 delectable snacks. Each session lasts about 30 minutes so you can join for just one segment.
Happy 2024 Earth Day! April 22nd, 2024
First Nations Major Projects Coalition (FNMPC) Hosts 7th Annual Conference in Toronto, Canada April 22nd, 2024
Indigenous consent and rights are pivotal to advancing North America’s global market share. Over 1,500 finance, industry, government, and Indigenous leaders are gathering in Toronto, Canada from April 22-23, 2024 to discuss how this collective advantage is key to their mutual environmental and economic success.
CONFERENCE AGENDA: https://fnmpc.ca/conference/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/04/OCA_Agenda_04212024.pdf
WEBSITE: https://fnmpc.ca/conference/
2024 World Earth Day: Show Appreciation & Stewardship for Planet Earth April 15th, 2024
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Bishop Michael Pfeifer, O.M.I.
Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of San Angelo
Pastoral Statement for World Earth Day
The 54th Earth Day anniversary will be celebrated on April 22nd, 2024, by millions of people in many countries to safeguard and fight for a brighter future for Planet Earth. World Earth Day always focuses attention on appreciation and stewardship for planet earth. In a particular way, EarthDay.ORG, the global organizer of Earth Day which grew out of the first Earth Day, has announced the global theme for Earth Day 2024; Planet Vs. Plastics.
(Image by Elena Pashynnaia, Pixabay)
The first Earth Day in 1970 mobilized millions of Americans from all walks of life to give birth to the modern environmental movement. On international Mother Earth Day, we reflect on humanity’s important relationship, not only among human beings, but with the whole natural world. The UN Secretary General has reminded us that from the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the soil that grows our food- humanity’s health depends on the health of Mother Earth. He cautions us that sadly, many times, we seem hellbent on its destruction. Our actions are laying waste to forests, jungles, farmland, wetlands, oceans, coral reefs, rivers, seas, and lakes. Biodiversity is collapsing as one million species teeters on the brink of extinction. We must end these relentless and senseless wars on nature. We have the tools, the knowledge, and the solutions, but we must pick up the pace.
The annual celebration of Earth Day indeed calls us to pick up the pace of not only caring for our fellow human beings, but we must also care for the entire Earth and all creation. Our Creator gave us stewardship over the Earth, not to dominate it but to care, protect, and enrich it. As Pope Francis has said many times, Earth is our Common Home, the only home we have, the only one we will pass on to the next generations. This World Day leads us to have a new appreciation and respect for the beauty and goodness of the natural world that surrounds us, nothing more and nothing less, than God’s work of art, his own beautiful gallery. Through the beauty, variety, harmony, and truly wonder-filled marvels of creation, our Creator has something very important to say to us. Today all humanity should lift up prayers of thanksgiving to our loving God for the wonderful gift of Mother Earth, which provides us with the means we need to stay alive. And then, humbly pray that we will be better stewards to better care for this magnificent gift.
