The Cry of the Earth -the Cry of the Poor

Dermott Farell is recently appointed Archbishop of Dublin

Introduction5

1. Our Rapidly Changing World8
1.1 Looking at Our World with the Eyes of Faith
2. The Effects of Climate Change: Four Inter-layered
Crises10
2.1 The Water Crisis
2.1.1 Rivers and Oceans Under Threat
2.1.2 Water and Women: Water, Justice and Gender
2.1.3 Light from God's Word
2.2 The Soil Crisis: From Land Flowing with Milk and Honey
to Wasteland
2.3 The Biodiversity Crisis: The Breakdown of Biodiversity
2.4 The Migration Crisis: Climate Change and Increasing
Injustice
3. The Climate Crisis: A Multi-layered Crisis253.1 The Climate Crisis and Our Choices
3.2 The Climate Crisis as a Spiritual Crisis
3.3 The Climate Crisis as a Religious Challenge
3.4 The Climate Crisis as an Absence of Solidarity
4. Responding to the Climate Crisis31
4.1 The Call to Ecological Conversion
5. Ecological Conversion: Towards a Culture of Care345.1 Developing a Spirituality of Gratitude and Wonder
5.2 Developing a Spirituality of Finitude and Limit

6. Sustaining a Culture of Care: Prayer and Community40
6.1 Creation and Prayer
6.1.1 The Prayer of the Christian
6.1.2 Prayer in the Face of Creation's Power, Awe
and Beauty
6.1.3 Our Prayer and Creation: Praying with
Creation
6.1.4 Prayer for Creation, Prayer for the Earth,
Prayer for All God's Creatures
6.2 Community as Ground and Empowerment for
Another Way of Living
6.2.1 Laudato Si' and your Parish: Practical Steps
6.2.2 Hope in a World that has Changed, and for
a Church that needs to Change
6.3 Investing for Change: The Laudato Si' Prize

Conclusion56

Epilogue59

Appendices59

Appendix 1: Passages from the Bible for Prayer59
Appendix 2: Poems for Reflection and Prayer62