Editorials

Earth

April 30, 2012
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Stefano Femminis They passed away at a distance of seven years and one day from one another: Sister Dorothy Stang, a North American missionary in the Amazon region, an adopted Brazilian, was killed by six gun shots on February 12th,  2005; Dom Ladislau Biernaski, Bishop of São José dos Pinhais and president of the Comissão Pastoral da Terra (Pastoral Land Commission) or CPT, an organisation of the Brazilian Church, died of cancer on February 13th 2012. Sister Dorothy – locally known as Irmã Dorote – became famous only after her tragic end. She lived in Anapu (Pará), where she...
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Crisis and survival

April 16, 2012
Un planeta en la deuda ecológica.

Gilberto Cely Galindo, SJ Nowadays, we live according to the rules of a consumerist neoliberal system which dominates the techno-scientific society with its false assertion, that our planets possesses both biotic and abiotic resources in unlimited quantity, and that human beings can exploit this supply without any ethical problem.  Economic value, it maintains, can be generated by converting natural resources into tradeable goods.  The more astute people within this neoliberal system appropriate the export benefits and pass on the damage and the costs to others. The logic of capitalism is incapable of rescuing the planet from the environmental crisis....
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Reflections

Rebasamiento ecológico mundial. Foto de: Global Footprint Network

A path of life

Jean-Marie Faux, SJ The Gospels tell us that after his baptism by John in the Jordan, Jesus was tempted in the wilderness by the devil.  Matthew (4, 1-11) features a triple temptation and a threefold response by Jesus.  By reading this story today, at a time when we keenly perceive the excesses of our...

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The ecology of the conquest, a historical perspective

Alain Lipietz A civilization (Latin for the Greek “politicization”) always refers to a double conquest: the domination of one part of nature as a source, and the fortification of humanity in houses, cities, facing the hostile nature.  Every civilization is derived from a revolution started 10,000 years ago (and not all completed): the Neolithic...

News and Programs

Jesuit Social Services-Australia: 35 years and beyond

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