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Evaluating Wind Power

Posted on July 3, 2021 by Passionist JPIC Australia

The use of wind turbines as a means of harnessing the wind to produce electrical power may seem a new innovation in finding a more sustainable source of energy to counteract climate change, but our use of wind power is … Continue reading →

Posted in Integrity of Creation | Tagged bladeless technology, bladeless wind turbines, Environment, Environmental Concern, environmentally friendly, JPIC, JPIC Passionists, Passionist, Passionist JPIC, Passionists, wind farm, wind power, Wind turbines | Leave a comment

Australia’s Electric Car Future

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Passionist JPIC Australia

As another G7 meeting winds up, it was heartening to see the concern and commitment the leaders showed for tackle Climate Change. G7 environment ministers agreed that they will deliver climate targets in line with limiting the rise in global … Continue reading →

Posted in Integrity of Creation | Tagged Climate Change, climate change debate, Dan Andrews government, electric car tax, Electric cars, Electric vehicles, Environment, Environmental Concern, G7, Greens, JPIC, Justice, Passionist, Passionist JPIC, Passionists | Leave a comment

Discrimination on the Basis of Disability

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Passionist JPIC Australia

There has been much on the news regarding Australia’s treatment of Asylum Seekers in off shore detention; protests about freedom for those on the mainland; and some recent wins in that regard. But the story I read in ‘The New … Continue reading →

Posted in Justice | Tagged Catholic Social Teaching, disability, discrimination, JPIC, JPIC Passionists, Justice, Kayaan Katyal, Passionist, Passionist JPIC, permanent residency, The Department of Home Affairs, The Migration Act | Leave a comment

Protect Humanity from Self Destruction

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Passionist JPIC Australia

“She (the Church) must above all protect mankind from self-destruction.” This remarkable statement caught my attention on re-reading Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si. He was quoting Pope Benedict (XVI)’s encyclical, Caritas in Veritate. It is remarkable to me because I had never … Continue reading →

Posted in Integrity of Creation, Justice, Peace | Tagged caritas in veritate, Environment, environmental activism, Environmental Concern, environmental destruction, JPIC, JPIC Passionists, Laudato Si, Passionist, Passionist JPIC, Pope Benedict and the environment, Pope Francis, sin, social justice, Social Morality, Thanotos, The Church and environmental issues | 1 Comment

Conscience Vote

Posted on November 14, 2020 by Passionist JPIC Australia

The recent Queensland election for State leadership, like the US election, has highlighted for me how Catholic voters can vote based on a single issue of justice concern while ignoring all else. I speak here about whether a political party … Continue reading →

Posted in Justice | Tagged Abortion, Catholic Social Teaching, Compassion, Conscience, freedom of conscience, human-rights, informed conscience, JPIC, JPIC Passionists, Justice, Passionist, Passionist JPIC, Passionists, pro-choice; legal abortion, pro-life, social justice, US election, voter ignorance, voters, voting | 1 Comment

Peter’s Rubbish School

Posted on September 5, 2020 by Passionist JPIC Australia

In this month’s blog, I’d like to tell you about the ‘Rubbish School’ in Cambodia and the work one of our Australian Passionists, Peter Gardiner CP, is doing with them. Late last year, Tom McDonough CP, the provincial of our … Continue reading →

Posted in Integrity of Creation | Tagged Climate Change, educating the poor, Environment, Environmental Concern, JPIC, JPIC Passionists, one use plastic bottles, Passionist, Passionist JPIC, Passionists, plastic bags, plastic pollution, Poverty, recycling waste, Rubbish School, Siem Reap, teaching English | Leave a comment

A History of Slavery

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Passionist JPIC Australia

For this month’s blog article, I thought I’d offer you this ‘History of Slavery’ by Ron Davoran CP, who is community leader of our Sydney based community at Marrickville. Ron took a trip to Ghana in 1999 and to New … Continue reading →

Posted in Justice | Tagged Asylum seekers, Black Lives Matter, child slavery, Human Trafficking, human-rights, Indigenous, international slave trade, JPIC, JPIC Passionists, Justice, Passionist, Passionist JPIC, Passionists, racism, Slave labour, Slave trade, slavery, structural evil, Whitney Plantation | Leave a comment

COVID and the Survival Instinct

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Passionist JPIC Australia

For all our success, we obviously aren’t out of the woods yet. A new outbreak of COVID-19 in Melbourne has meant that the state of Victoria has been put into lockdown for 6 weeks. That is 6 weeks without social … Continue reading →

Posted in Justice | Tagged Charles Eisenstein, Corona Virus, COVID, COVID19, fear of death, human-rights, JPIC, JPIC Passionists, Justice, lockdown, loss of civil liberties, pandemic, Passionist, Passionist JPIC, Passionists, personal freedom, Police enforcement of social distancing, social distancing, survival instinct | Leave a comment

The COVID-19 Conspiracy

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Passionist JPIC Australia

In last week’s blog article, I quoted Charles Eisenstien’s prophetic words, when reflecting on the current crisis over the COVID-19 pandemic, “COVID-19 is like a rehab intervention that breaks the addictive hold of normality. To interrupt a habit is to … Continue reading →

Posted in Justice, Peace | Tagged 5G, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Charles Eisenstein, China, Conspiracy theories, Corona Virus, COVID19, Fake news, George Floyd, Hong Kong protests, human-rights, JPIC, JPIC Passionists, Justice, pandemic, Passionist, Passionist JPIC, Passionists, post-pandemic world, racism, SARS-CoV-2, structural evil, tracking, violence, Wuhan | Leave a comment

The Choice Before Us

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Passionist JPIC Australia

There is a quote by Sonya Renee Taylor that originated on Instagram that has been doing the rounds on Facebook that reads: “We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal other than … Continue reading →

Posted in Integrity of Creation, Justice, Peace | Tagged Charles Eisenstein, Climate Change, Corona Virus, COVID19, Environment, Environmental Concern, flattening the curve, Free Market, Global warming, Greenhouse gasses, human-rights, JPIC, JPIC Passionists, Justice, lockdown, loss of civil liberties, new normal, Normal life, pandemic, Passionist, Passionist JPIC, Passionists, Police enforcement of social distancing, post-coved 19, post-pandemic world, quarantine, social distancing, social isolation, UN | Leave a comment

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