About the author:
Patrick Kalob has served as the Carmelite NGO intern this past year. He graduated in May, 2024 from Manhattan College in New York City, with a sociology major and a philosophy minor.

The Season of Creation (Sept. 1 – Oct. 4) is key to deepen reflection, prayer and celebration for the Care of Creation, our common home, the Earth.
The Carmelite NGO together with the Laudato Si’ Movement have launched a special issue of CarmeNGO for the Season of Creation to contribute to eco-theological reflection on the path taken by Catholic moral theology to arrive at the current understanding of the care of creation, with new categories such as integral ecology and ecological conversion.

In this first issue of CarmeNGO 2022, Dr. Kevin Ahern invites us to think about integral ecology from the Laudato Si’ – Fratelli Tutti binomial and to see how the Synodal Way to which Pope Francis calls us for 2023 is part of the ecclesial conversion needed, along with personal and political conversions, to move from an ecology of indifference towards integral human development.

In recent years, the world’s faith traditions have been increasingly turning their ethical gaze toward the intersection of social, economic and ecological issues as they seek collaboration with members of other faiths.