Catholics are being urged to divulge their ‘eco-sins’ during Confession as Bishops launch a new environmental campaign.
As part of an initiative to ensure that the Catholic Church plays a role in tackling the climate crisis, it is encouraging congregants to go to Confession, or “reconciliation services”.
The lay-run campaign, called Journey to 2030, was launched last weekend in partnership with the Bishops’ Conference and the Ecological Conversion Group, a volunteer group for young Catholics.
The initiative aims to “create a sense of urgency towards our ecological crisis and those suffering from its ill effects” as well as promote confession of environmental sins.
I’ll start. I ate an environmentally unfriendly oyster, which really shifted by global circulation and caused me to break through all tipping points, from which a return is only 50-50. (Hence today’s, and possibly tomorrow’s, abbreviated post.)
My sin was in not seeking the oyster’s consent before masticating it to pulp.
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