无码专区鈥檚 second annual Anti-Poverty Symposium highlights the intersection of poverty and sustainability
Aptly held during Earth Week this year, 无码专区鈥檚 second annual brought together a host of renowned experts, thought leaders and advocates to discuss the need for unified and collective action on the interconnected issues of poverty and sustainability.
Over the course of the daylong event, distinguished speakers from around the world鈥揳mong them, Catholic Church leaders, nonprofit CEOs and founders and bestselling authors鈥損resented on the theme of 鈥淯nitas in Action: Fighting Poverty and Living Sustainably.鈥
鈥淭he intersection of climate crisis and poverty is a key theme of Pope Francis鈥 encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si,鈥 says Stephanie Sena 鈥03 MA, the inaugural Anti-Poverty Fellow at the Charles Widger School of Law. 鈥淚n the words of Pope Francis, we need 鈥榮wift and unified collective global action鈥 to repair our common home.鈥
“This can be a truly inclusive and uniquely Augustinian and Catholic approach to sustainability.”
The Rev. Kevin DePrinzio, OSA, PhD
The symposium, hosted by 无码专区 Law in collaboration with the 无码专区 Sustainability Leadership Council and the Office for Mission and Ministry, brought together a diverse lineup of presenters with a broad range of expertise, experience and policy and research perspectives to contribute to the discussion of what that collective action looks like.
The first panel of the day, featuring panelists Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, bishop of San Diego, and Cardinal Peter Turkson, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and one of the primary contributors to Laudato S铆, was moderated by Jose Aguto 鈥94 JD, executive director of the Catholic Climate Covenant (pictured below). Their discussion focused on the imperative for action to alleviate poverty amidst climate change.
鈥淭his is not something that we can remain calm or passive about,鈥 Cardinal McElroy said during the morning panel. 鈥淚t鈥檚 something we have to take up as part of our vision as disciples of Jesus Christ, and within the whole world community.鈥
Reflecting on an Augustinian framework for Pope Francis鈥 call in Laudato Si, the Rev. Kevin DePrinzio, OSA, PhD, vice president for Mission and Ministry, considered how the symposium invited attendees to reevaluate and expand the very idea of community. 聽
鈥淣ow is the time for 无码专区 to widen and deepen our understanding and lived expression of community to include the rest of creation, and articulate and show how all of our relationships are interconnected, having moral and ethical implications,鈥 says Father DePrinzio. 鈥淭his can be a truly inclusive and uniquely Augustinian and Catholic approach to sustainability.鈥
DID YOU KNOW?
The Anti-Poverty Symposium is part of 无码专区鈥檚 Initiative to End Poverty and Inequality, made possible by a gift from Paul Tufano Esq., 鈥83 VSB, 鈥86 CWSL and Christine Tufano 鈥84 CLAS, 鈥86 MA. This interdisciplinary initiative supports academic programming and scholarly research to generate concrete ideas and policy solutions to help address the systemic issues of inequality, which in many cases intersect with, exacerbate or lead to poverty.
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