Emily Burke - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 08 Sep 2021 23:15:08 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Emily Burke - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 ‘Laudato Si' inspires young adults to faith-based action on climate change https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/09/09/laudato-si-inspires-young-adults-to-faith-based-action-on-climate-change/ Thu, 09 Sep 2021 07:53:27 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=140217 It was after reading Pope Francis's encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," that Emily Burke began wondering what she, as a student at Jesuit-run Creighton University, could do to help protect the environment. "I was really energized," Burke recalled after reading the teaching document. "That message informed my time at Creighton." She Read more

‘Laudato Si' inspires young adults to faith-based action on climate change... Read more]]> It was after reading Pope Francis's encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," that Emily Burke began wondering what she, as a student at Jesuit-run Creighton University, could do to help protect the environment.

"I was really energized," Burke recalled after reading the teaching document. "That message informed my time at Creighton."

She became involved in a student-led campaign to convince university trustees to divest school resources from fossil fuel companies. The work, rooted in church teaching, led school officials to announce Dec. 31, 2020, that full divestment would occur within a decade.

Burke and other students had something to celebrate and realized their generation could make a difference.

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