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Catholic Earthcare Australia
adedWiki ID: Gqiu9920 Article title: Catholic Earthcare Australia Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Earthcare_Australia Who is Catholic Earthcare Australia Catholic Earthcare Australia is an ecological body of the conference of Australian catholic bishops. Pope John Paul II, on the 17th day of January 2001, while conducting an audit to the earth in an eco-spiritual manner, said that is immediately evident that humanity has disappointed divine expectations. More so, in the current times, human beings do a lot of environmental degradation and this has been a global concern as well as climate change. Due to this concern, the conference of catholic bishops in Australia heeds to the call of Pope John Paul II, to undertake the mandate of Catholic Earthcare Australia. It was formed in May 2002, and given its mandate in 2003 that currently operates and later on in 2017; the catholic Earthcare Australia was put under the CARITAS banner of Australia. It offers office support forms the back office to the catholic Earthcare to enable the collaboration of the inter agencies specifically on matters relating to climate justice. Catholic Earthcare Australia vision The vision of this body is geared towards the sustainability of the ecological systems and the Australian resilience in circumstances where the Catholic Church communities actively participate in holistically caring for the environment, human, and social ecology. Catholic Earthcare Australia mission The mission is to help promote understanding of people about creation as sacred, threatened, and need protection and sustenance for both the current and future generations. Ecological dialogue Pope Francis appealed for dialogue of better ways to shape the planet's future, given that there is a need to conserve the environment that poses a challenge to the world. The new dialogue, according to pope Francis, require all humanity because the environmental challenges faced in Australia and the entire worlds have their roots from human beings and equally their affect the same humanity Catholic Earthcare ecological dialogue steps There are eight steps employed in the ecological dialogue initiated by the catholic Earthcare austral to become an Earthcare school accredited (Catholic Earthcare Australia, 2020). This had its publications in 2005 in a seminal draft that out spelled the case regarding creation care according to the church teaching through patriarch Bartholomew 1, Pope John Paul II, and Pope John XXIII (Catholic Earthcare Australia, 2020). The first step is to form the heart via moral and theology to care about our homes and thorough ecological literacy. Secondly, according to Catholic Earthcare Australia, establish an apostolate by coordinator selection and incorporating various stakeholders (2020). The third is by preparing the way through data collection by theme identification and crafting strategic plans. Next is discipleship creation by having a communication plan and incorporating stakeholders in decision making. Additionally, it involves empowering others by removing barriers and, at the same time, sponsoring initiatives necessary for delivering its mandate. Furthermore, easy wins harvesting should be given prominence, to have people participate in the reconstruction of the environment (Catholic Earthcare Australia, 2020). Next is to sustain and move forward by tacking progress and empowering others through networking, action plan embedding within renewal processes. Finally, animate others by building its mission though connecting to people of similar mind
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To achieve its mandate, the catholic Earthcare Australia formed a framework for achieving its goals through a strategic systems-based integrated sustainability initiative (ASSISI) to provide the framework for fulfilling a transformative vision of the ecology in the catholic schools, agencies, congregations, churches, and communities ASSISI's overarching aim initiative is to create a foundation and best practice pathways in attaining ecological sustainability. It is the catholic institutions such as schools, agencies, organizations, churches, and parishes in Australia. A definition is provided about environmental education and passed to catholic schools and treated as appropriate and relevant for the catholic agencies and organizations; therefore, it has been described as: Entailing practices in decision making towards living a life for ecological sustainability. Besides, it is a whole life process for recognizing values and clarification of concepts for developing attitudes and skills required for understanding and appreciating the interrelationship between creatures and knowing the same as God-given that needs equal sharing the best relationship. Additionally, it entails an individual's more remarkable change that lasts longer for communities and organizations that take time. Consequently, the initiative of ASSISI is such a designed long-lasting approach the gets inspiration from the teachings of the Catholic Church teachings, beliefs, and values. This aims to develop, implement, and monitor the necessary processes for development facilitation communion spirituality that exists at the center of attaining ecological sustainability and conversion within the Australian Catholic church. It takes the approach with a compliance basis that has an external imposition of frameworks and models. The learning communities’ method includes the process that co-creates to make organizations meaningfully work with broader sustainability approaches. Integrated facets inform the community that the learning sustainability framework is well entrenched within the ASSISI approach design by the 2008 catholic Earthcare. This approach is more important as a guide to integrating the processes and principles of every organization. Catholic Earthcare Australia (CEA) commitments summary CEA encourage all Catholics in the following ways: i.	Young people and education Perpetuate adults' formation by providing relevant learning processes to all workers towards conserving the earth ecologically and sustainability through the ASSISI initiatives supplied in Australia by CEA. Create a sense of wonder and awe for gods creating in the young generation in every teaching and learning subject by grounding a spiritual knowledge of the necessity for caring for creation using available resources. Additionally, the youth and all humanity need to practice green living, food, and gardening in every catholic school and education places. In so doing, the body encourages all to grow ecological vocation. Moreover, this is meant to facilitate the community to share challenges and ideas about environmental conservation proactively. Finally, it aims to encourage the community to experience programmed transformation and courses promoted by Catholic Earthcare Australia intensively.

ii. Pastoral Care (Wisdom, tradition and theology) They encourage Catholics to learn and rediscover the saints and prophets who cared for God's creation for sustainability. Also, it enables human beings to remember more concerning ecology and the catholic social norm scriptures. Besides, they encourage sacramental use as an avenue to deeply understand the relationship with God via gifts of nature. Moreover, pastoral care enhances the promotion of environment friendliness, sensitivity, and to realize newer routes for deepening the understanding of the human past, future, and present relationships spiritually to the natural world.

iii. Lifestyles This encourages Catholics to develop a transport policy incorporating the sharing of vehicles, public transportation, or cycling. Besides, Catholic Earthcare Australia encourages a lifestyle recognizing the locals' importance, organic and fresh foodstuffs within homes and community. This body implores people to eradicate plastics, hydrocarbons, high energy and luxurious items from abroad, bottled water use, and use ethically made as ell as produced clothing, observe advent and lent times for the creation of reflection relationship of God.

iv. Eco-twinning and Partnerships The body encourages interfaith conversations to learn various approaches to ecological conservation. Besides, it encourages all Catholics to support catholic Earthcare Australia as well as development agencies and justice towards their work regarding ecology. Moreover, this body encourages all Catholics to partner from within the church and without obtaining a more comprehensive ecological understanding and their effects on the local and global issues. Also, all Catholics should form an eco twinning link with the catholic communities to get knowledge regarding the environment and share what they learn in their journey to ecological sustainability. Catholic Earthcare initiatives

Annotated Bibliography Catholic Earthcare Australia (2020). Steps to ecological dialogue. https://catholicearthcare.org.au/steps-to-ecological-dialogue/

Catholic Earthcare Australia. (2006). On the holy ground: An ecological vision for Catholic education in Queensland. Retrieved from www.catholicearthcareoz.net This article borrows largely from the book of Exodus 3:5 talking about one being on holy ground and that shoes should be removed. The article is relevant since it talks about the ecological vision for Catholic education in Queensland. Besides, it is relevant to the study because the document talks of the ecological vision and offers the catholic learning institutions (schools, colleges) and offers a planned route of journeying towards practices of ecological sustainability. Furthermore, it offers recognition to spiritual and moral approaches. Additionally, the source is relevant because it provides insight for examining water and energy use and the way of recycling wastes. Also, this ecological vision document offers beneficial aspects to the future generation. Catholic Earthcare Australia. (2010). On the holy ground: An ecological vision for Catholic education in South Australia. Retrieved from www.catholicearthcare.org.au Fedriani, JM; García, L; Sanchéz, M; Calderon, J; Ramo, C (2017). "Long-term impact of protected colonial birds on a jeopardized cork oak population: conservation bias leads to restoration failure". Journal of Applied Ecology. 54 (2): 450–458. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.1267 This source shows significant detrimental results about ecological conservation that is biased toward the birds’ family through investigations that are spanning longer from 1963 to 2009 effects of the colony of the water bird. Therefore, the article presents changes that have been observed in relation to the performance of the bird colony in the water. Lavery, S. (2009). Religious educators: Promoting servant leadership. Religious Education Journal of Australia, 25(1), 31-36. According to Lavery, he posits in this article that learners and educators need to be open about curriculum change possibilities and the manner in which such changes can be achieved. Besides this article relates to the study because it provides insights to the learners that they should be aware of how young peoples’ faith needs to be developed specifically in approaches that make the youth encounter god so that they may have the understanding of conserving the environment. It further says that the youths need to have the integrity of practicing what they are taught and that the teachers should be examples that they teach the youths. Quam, Vivian G. M.; Rocklöv, Joacim; Quam, Mikkel B. M.; Lucas, Rebekah A. I. (2017). "Assessing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Health Co-Benefits: A Structured Review of Lifestyle-Related Climate Change Mitigation Strategies". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 14 (5): 468. doi:10.3390/ijerph14050468 In this article, Quam identified and summarised the research about human lifestyle choice necessary for improving human health and having an immense ability of mitigating climate change. It is relevant to this article since the article under study talks about ecological conversion. This source applied analysis of two pieces of literature which included the health benefits of active transport and secondly, the co-benefits of healthy diets. Furthermore, the article suggests quantities necessary for any greenhouse gas emission as well as the nutritional results of diet change.