What on Earth
Here's the link to the program "What On Earth" that features the question I submitted. It's kind of fun to learn that I was indirectly interacting with Pope Leo's "right-hand-man" on the Climate issue and that he's a Canadian!
CBC: What on Earth with Laura Lynch in conversation with Cardinal Michael Czerny, 7 November 2025. "Pope Leo, a climate ‘action hero’? The Terminator thinks so."
from 12:40: LL This is a question that we received from a listener to our show in Victoria. His name is Allen Doerksen. He is a parish priest to an Anglican congregation that he called “very civically minded”, and he asked, “what is your most authentic piece of advice when people say, ‘I know that feeling despair doesn’t help, but I can’t help but feeling it over this issue’?”
Now, Rev. Doerksen isn’t a Catholic, and he was asking us, but somehow I think you’re better placed. How would you respond to his question, or to others who are leading congregations through this same thing?
MC I would say that our worries, our very legitimate fears, our anxiety, so much as to say our panic, about this climate crisis, that has to go into the background, because those feelings actually are paralyzing. The only real question that’s worth asking, I would really hope that he would encourage his congregation, his parish, to do that as we do in ours, is “What is the first step that I can take?” That’s the only real question. All the others are news, and fake news, and alarmism, and statistics, and all sorts of other elements which are fine but they don’t get us going, and we need to get going. So I would invite the reverend to ask his congregation to close their eyes and to think deeply, ask God to help them to say, “What step should I take?” or “What step can the two of us, or the five of us, or the ten of us, take?” And that’s the real question, and the rest is discussion.
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