Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on September 17th, 2015
by Pincas Jawetz (pj@sustainabilitank.info)
Pope Francis’ Visit to the United States
This coming week, Pope Francis will visit the United States. During this momentous visit, he will address a joint session of Congress on September 24 at 10am, as well as the United Nations General Assembly on September 25 at 8:30am. In addition to visiting Washington D.C. and New York City, he will also visit Philadelphia.
The Pope’s visit is a very important event in support of the encyclical on the environment, “Praised Be: On the Care of Our Common Home” (Laudato Si’), in which Pope Francis highlights issues of “integral ecology,” namely concerns for people and the planet. There are a number of resources on the Forum site fore.yale.edu) to provide you more information on the encyclical.
For the Pope’s schedule, visit:
www.popefrancisvisit.com/official…
www.usatoday.com/story/news/natio…
Many events are being organized throughout the United States in light of the Pope’s visit. For details, please see below.
We encourage you to download a free Pope Francis’ Encyclical Climate Action Kit that Interfaith Power & Light has put together in conjunction with the Catholic Climate Covenant.
You can download it here: fore.yale.edu