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A key event during Reconciliation Week in Rome, marking 50 years of the Australian Embassy to the Holy See, is this conversation on 1 June hosted by UISG with Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr Baumann on caring for our common home, facilitated by Sr Adele Howard RSM, in partnership with Caritas Internationalis.
Date: Thursday, 1 June Time: 2:00pm-3:30pm (Rome), 10pm -11:30pm (AEST) Download the flyer 
Watch the conversation at the YouTube link below
PROGRAM TIMECODE Welcome: Sr Patricia Murray ibvm, Executive Secretary UISG 5:46 Address: Alistair Dutton, Secretary General of Caritas internationalis 8:23 Introduction: H.E. Chiara Porro, Ambassador to the Holy See 15:20 Conversation: Dr Miriam Rose Ungunmerr Baumann & Sr Adele Howard rsm 21:32 Response: Musamba Mubanga, Caritas Internationalis 1:11:10 Thanks and Close: Sr Patricia Murray ibvm 1:25:54
.Read the report of this event in Catholic Outlook, the newsletter of the Diocese of Parramatta, Australia.
Pope Francis has released his message for the 2023 World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation (1 September) focusing on the theme, “Let Justice and Peace Flow”, inspired by the words of the prophet Amos: “Let justice flow on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream.” The message was released at a a Vatican press conference held 25 May, the day following the eighth anniversary of the publication of his ground-breaking encyclical on faith and ecology, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home." "Let us heed our call to stand with the victims of environmental and climate injustice, and to put an end to the senseless war against creation", said the Pope, citing " Consumerist greed...the unrestrained burning of fossil fuels and the destruction of forests....predatory industries...depleting and polluting our freshwater sources through extreme practices such as fracking for oil and gas extraction, unchecked mega-mining projects, and intensive animal farming." Pope Francis offers each of three ways to heal our common home: we must transform our hearts, our lifestyles, and the public policies ruling our societies. Read the Pope's message here 
Global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels in the next five years, fuelled by heat-trapping greenhouse gases and a naturally-occurring El Niño event, according to an update by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). The critical Paris Agreement target of containing global average world temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels will be temporarily exceeded, its analysis published on Wednesday concludes. There is a 66 per cent likelihood that the annual average near-surface global temperature between 2023 and 2027 will be more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels for at least one year. There is a 98 per cent likelihood that at least one of the next five years, and the five-year period as a whole, will be the warmest on record. “This report does not mean that we will permanently exceed the 1.5-degree level specified in the Paris Agreement which refers to long-term warming over many years. However, WMO is sounding the alarm that we will breach the 1.5-degree level on a temporary basis with increasing frequency,” said WMO secretary general Prof Petteri Taalas. Read the rest of the story here Source: The Irish Times  Laudato Si’ Week 2023 will be celebrated 21- 28 May marking the eighth anniversary of Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical on care for creation. The theme this year is 'Hope for the Earth. Hope for Humanity'. Australia celebrates Laudato Si Week one week earlier (May 16–24) so it does not clash with the national Reconciliation Week, May 27–June 3... Pope Francis will inaugurate Laudato Si' Week at the Sunday Angelus prayer held at midday (Rome time) from St Peter's Square in Vatican City. Watch it here: FB https://www.facebook.com/events/198706712993886 YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlV6ivG0ed0 The program for Laudato si' Week can be found on the website here 
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