An Approach to Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato Si’

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

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Sr. Damien Marie Savino discusses Laudato Si’ and explores components of the climate change crisis in order to help us find more effective solutions.

Conversations on Fratelli Tutti

Saturday, October 17, 2020

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The Church has a new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti. Join us this week for a special SLHour looking at the many themes from the encyclical. Deacon Pedro speaks with Cardinal Thomas Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, Carolyn Woo, retired President of Catholic Relief Services, Luke Stocking, of Development and Peace-Caritas, Canada, Marie Claude Lalonde, National Director of […]

SLHour Special: Faith in a Time of Crisis:
Refugees, Laudato Si’, and Lebanon

Saturday, August 22, 2020

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We continue revisiting earlier conversations: the pandemic's effect on Rohingya refugees, environmental lessons we've learned, and Lebanon's crisis.

Faith in a Time of Crisis: Laudato Si’ Special with Sr. Damien Marie Savino

Thursday, May 21, 2020

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Sr. Damien Marie Savino, FSE, explores faith lessons from the encyclical Laudato Si’ that we are living during the COVID-19 Crisis.

CREATION on This is the Day

Thursday, April 14, 2016

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Last week, Fr. Bob Reed and our friends from the Boston-based, Catholic TV, featured Sr. Damien Marie Savino, FSE, of the University of St. Thomas-Houston, in their program, This is the Day to talk about Salt + Light’s new series CREATION. Sr. Damien worked Deacon Pedro and is featured on CREATION, our six-part series on the […]

Creation Now Available On Blu-Ray!

Sunday, January 17, 2016

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Why should we care for the environment? by Sr. Damien Marie Savino, FSE and Deacon Pedro Guevara-Mann We began with a simple question and the quest for the answer led us to fascinating discoveries. We never thought, when we started working on this project, that we would one day have an encyclical on the environment, on the care […]

Watch All-New Episodes of Salt + Light’s Groundbreaking Series on Ecology – Episode 4: Groaning

Monday, November 23, 2015

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Salt + Light’s new six-part groundbreaking documentary series Creation continues on Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 8:00 pm ET. Creation highlights stories from all over North America focused on Catholic environmental principles. Our stories draw attention to many issues – waste management, species conservation, urban and local farming, water shortages, contamination and waste water treatment– and offer the […]

Encore Presentation of ‘What’s Catholic in Houston?’

Saturday, November 21, 2015

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As we continue our summer editions with the best of the SLHour, we rebroadcast a program that we taped at the downtown Chancery building of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston in Texas for a show recorded thanks to their Archdiocesan Radio Ministry. We learn about the University of St. Thomas, meet Catholic environmentalist, Sr. Damien Marie […]

Deacon-structing Laudato Si’

Friday, June 19, 2015

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Why has Pope Francis written a document on ecology? Today, on a special edition of the SLHour, we deacon-struct the Encyclical on the Care of our Common Home with special guest, environmental engineer and Franciscan Sister of the Eucharist, Sr. Damien Marie Savino, FSE, chair of the Environmental Science and Studies Department of the University […]

Deacon-structing integral ecology

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Deacon Pedro

Very few of us would argue that we have to care for the environment, in fact Pope Francis has said that it is our moral duty to care for Creation (Morning Homily from Feb 9, 2015). How does this notion square with the idea that Scripture tells us to dominate and subdue the earth? I […]