Vol. 6, Issue SI1, 2017 | Published by Journal of Moral Theology

Table of Contents

Table of Contents, Vol. 6, Special Issue 1. Laudato Si and Northern Appalachia

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Contributors

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Note from Issue Editors
Note from Issue Editors
William J. CollingeChristine CusickChristopher McMahon
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The Significance of Pope Francis’s Prophetic Call: ‘Care for Our Common Home’ for Northern Appalachia
Anne Clifford
Pope Francis gives attention to the plight of the poor several times on Laudato Si’, drawing attention to the fact that it is the poor...
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Sustainable Communities and Eucharistic Communities: Laudato Si’, Northern Appalachia, and Redemptive Recovery
Lucas Briola
What difference does Jesus make for environmental issues? In his encyclical, Laudato Si’, Pope Francis attempts an answer. He underscores the need for a sustainable...
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An Integral Eucharist? Pope Francis, Louis-Marie Chauvet, and Ecology’s Relationship to Eucharist
Derek Hostetter
In this essay, I begin with a brief account of Pope Francis’ vision of integral ecology as presented in his encyclical Laudato Si’,particularly in connection...

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Pope Francis, Theology of the Body, Ecology and Encounter

Robert Ryan

Pope Francis’ vision of the human person’s relationship to the environment accentuates care for the earth without degrading the centrality of the person. Building from...

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The Catholic Worker Farm in Lincoln County, West Virginia, 1970-1990: An Experiment in Sustainable Community

William J. Collinge

In 1975, Dorothy Day wrote, “It will be Chuck Smith, in West Virginia, who will be writing about agronomic universities or farming communes—that aspect of...

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The Catholic Workers and “Green” Civic Republicanism in Lincoln County, SV: 1969-1979

Jinny A. Turman

This study argues that, even though the Catholic Worker movement operated within a personalist perspective, they shaped the emergence of green civic republican rhetorical strategies...

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Discerning a Catholic Environmental Ethos:Three Episodes in the Growth of Environmental Awareness n Western Pennsylvania
Tim Kelly
This paper examines three critical environmental episodes: the development of the subsistence homestead community of Norvelt, Pennsylvania in the 1930s and 1940s, the Donora smog...
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The Consequences of Fossil Fuel Addiction in Schoharie County
Nancy M. Rourke
Following Pope Francis’ lead in Laudato Si’, this essay uses Catholic Social Teaching to examine the impacts of fossil fuels on family farming in New...
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Laudato Si’, Communication Ethics, and the Common Good: Toward a Dialogic Meeting Amid Environmental Crisis
John H. Prellwitz
Pope Francis’ second encyclical, Laudato Si’, directly addresses the responsibility all persons share for the care of our common home, the earth. This essay investigates...
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Strange as This Weather Has Been: Teaching Laudato Si’ and Ecofeminism
David von Schlichten
Ann Pancake’s 2007 novel Strange as This Weather Has Been serves as a helpful complement to Laudato Si’ by filling a crucial gap in the...
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At Home in Northern Appalachia: Laudato Si’ and the Catholic Committee of Appalachia
Jessica Wrobleski
The Catholic Committee of Appalachia’s people’s pastoral, The Telling Takes Us Home, was not intended as a response to the pope’s encyclical Laudato Si’. While...