Green Saints for a Green Generation

By: Libby Osgood

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Overview

“In the community of saints, all together are companions in memory and hope. Together, all together, they are becoming something strange and growing and great, instruments of change. Green Saints for a Green Generation taps beautifully into this dynamic for the sake of our suffering Earth, which cries out for no less.”—From the Foreword by Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ

“A splendid array of new voices and new visions for new generations of Earth caretakers!”—Kathleen Noone Deignan, CND, founding director, Deignan Institute for Earth and Spirit, Iona University

“These fresh views from women theologians and practitioners stirred my spirit, renewed my hope, and called me to a more vibrant engagement of the demands of our time. Uplifting and challenging! I loved it.”—Simone Campbell, SSS, 2022 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient

“This book is an invaluable collection of remarkable people. Their lives are shining examples of dedication in the face of great odds. They will be a source of enduring inspiration for the Great Work ahead.”—Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology

“Much like healthy ecosystems and the green saints elevated in this book, the contributing writers to this book are diverse and vibrant. . . . This book is timely, relevant, and important. I recommend it!”—Julia Walsh, Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration; author, For Love of the Broken Body

Young scientists, sisters, and theologians of the “green generation” reflect on “saints”—canonized and not—who offer hope and inspire us towards ecological action.

In Laudato Si’ Pope Francis established care for creation as one of the central themes of Catholic social teaching. Yet that ecological consciousness has yet to take root en masse among the Catholic faithful. In Green Saints for a Green Generation young Catholic women on “saints”—canonized and not—who connected their faith to concern for the earth.

The writers include a wide range of figures, from the traditional, such as Sts. Clare of Assisi, Ignatius of Loyola, and Marguerite Bourgeoys, to contemporary figures like Thomas Merton, author Toni Morrison, and the Martyrs of the Amazon. By connecting these key figures to environmental responsibility, the contributors encourage the not-yet informed to become active, inviting younger generations to join the ecological movement, to take taking on the responsibility from their elders, and to shoulder the ecological burden for themselves.

Libby (Elizabeth) Osgood, CND, PhD, PEng, is co-editor with Kathleen Deignan of Teilhard de Chardin: A Book of Hours (Orbis, 2023). She is also an aerospace engineer who teaches sustainable design engineering at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. She is a religious sister of the Congregation of Notre Dame de Montreal.

Contributors: Flora x. Tang, Céire Kealty, Sister Jessi Beck, PBVM, Amirah Orozco, Sister Celia Ashton, OCD, Libby Osgood, CND, LaRyssa D. Herrington, Kaitlyn Lightfoot, Sister Réjane Cytacki, SCL, Elizabeth Iwunwa, Rhonda Miska and Ronnie Noonan-Birch

Cover design: Regina Gelfer

Cover art: “Beatitudes” © Jenn Norton, used with permission.

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