“Not turning away: Climate change and the tools of good works” by Erie Benedictine Sister Jacqueline Sanchez-Small appears in the March 2023 issue of the American Benedictine Review. She begins, “Saint Benedict wrote his Rule for monastics more than a millennium before human greed and carelessness would bring about the catastrophe of climate change that faces us today. But his era, like ours, was marked by materialism and violence, uncertainty and collapse. The cenobitic lifestyle he established was a response to these challenges. His Rule was written for people who wished to find ‘life and good days,’ (Prologue) and meet their era’s trials with courage and faithfulness to the Gospel. The crisis of global warming is no different, in this respect, from the cataclysms of the last 1500 years: through them all, monastic spirituality pointed a way forward.” CLICK TO ACCESS PDF FILE
