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A Planetary Perspective—video by former astronaut Ron Garan about the impact of seeing Earth from space & the need for all to develop a planetary perspecitve, with an introduction by Michelle Dugan Laudato Si’ Week—Terri MacKenzie invites a fresh reading of LS by offering key highlights from it, in celebration of the eighth anniversary of Pope Francis’ letter to the whole world The Evangelical Pope: preaching & living an incarnated faith by Robert Mickens; excerpts from article in La Croix International, March 26, 2023 366th Station—the 2nd station from “Stations of the Cross” prepared by Ukrainian young adults for Lent 2023, with a link to the full service New Pioneers by artist Mark Henson—photo of a panormic painting depicting “the epic drama of life, death, war, peace & the inalienable right to choose” José Andrés & the Olla de Barro that Feeds the World—a portrait by artist Kabir Nelson of the Spanish chef who founded World Central Kitchen to feed hundreds of thousands of people impacted by war and natural disasters A Non-sectarian Christian Pope by Robert Mickens in La Croix International, January 21, 2023— about the incarnate faith of Pope Francis who embraces the world as it actually is, not as we would prefer it to be After the Storm—photo of a painting from a collection of paintings by Kabir Nelson about the strength of the human spirit emerging from the recent pandemic, with a link to a video interview with the artist