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Saint Kateri Conservation Center

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Catholic conservancy and land trust promoting faith, ecology, biodiversity, & climate resilience ✝️🦌 Creating Saint Kateri Habitats & Parish Arks. Founded in 2000 🐢 www.Kateri.org

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Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · Apr 5

Our Catholic book for young people, their parents, and their teachers, "God Made That! Catholic Nature Field Guide" is available at Pauline Books & Media! Written by our own Kat Hoenke and Bill Jacobs, the book integrates the science of ecology and the Catholic faith
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God Made That! Catholic Nature Field Guide

Explore our common home and encounter God through his creation with this interactive nature field guide by Catholic ecologists Kathleen Hoenke and Bill Jacobs of the Saint Kateri Conservation Center. ...

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Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · Jul 15

🐢This is the view from Tekakwitha Spring at the Saint Kateri National Shrine and Historic Site, of the forest where Kateri lived. 🙏Saint Kateri, pray for us.
#SaintKateri #Catholic #LaudatoSi #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge

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Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · Jul 25

🌿 Children deserve to grow up with a sense of wonder, not a burden of fear and anxiety. Let’s help them discover the beauty and goodness of the natural world, because it’s love and gratitude that inspire lasting care. #ClimateChange #ClimateAnxiety #ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalEducation #HopeNotFear

Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · Jul 9

Pope Leo XIV celebrates the new Mass formula “for the care of creation" | AP News
#CareofCreation #CreationCare #SaintKateri #Catholic
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Pope celebrates first 'green Mass' using new rite in sign of strong ecological focus

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated what has been dubbed the first “green” papal Mass. He used a new set of prayers imploring care for God’s creation in a sign he intends to emphasize environmental stewardshi...

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Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · Jul 8

Real solutions will only be found when we step out of our political silos and start working together for the common good.
#climatechange #biodiversity #landconservation #waterconservation #integralecology

Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · Jul 6

🌿 Saint Maria Goretti 🌿
A young saint of faith and forgiveness.
She reminds us: integral ecology starts with protecting human dignity and healing relationships.

Images courtesy National Catholic Register.

✝️ Saint Maria, pray for us.
#SaintMariaGoretti #IntegralEcology #CareForCreation

Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · Jun 14

🌿 Is political activism enough? 🌿

The #climate movement demands action from others, especially governments, but without personal conversion, little changes.

As #Catholics, we know the root of ecological destruction is sin. The remedy? Conversion of the heart and the saving love of Jesus Christ.

Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · Jun 12

🌿 Blessed Jolenta of Poland 🌿
A princess who embraced poverty & simplicity to care for people who are poor.

Jolenta reminds us that integral ecology begins with humility & material detachment, freeing us to love people who are vulnerable & the Earth with reverence.

#Catholic #SaintOfTheDay

Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · Jun 8

Integral Nature is a new faith-based conservation coaching and consulting practice. Find me on LinkedIn or bill @ integralnature.life

Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · Jun 8

🌎 Science gave us the means to harm the climate.
To develop unsustainable energy.
To pollute, overconsume, and haphazardly develop.
To destroy landscapes and erase biodiversity.

So I say: don’t follow the science. Not by itself.

We need science guided by wisdom, ethics, and LOVE. 💚

-Bill Jacobs

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Shrine of Saint Jude @saintjudeshrine.bsky.social · May 30

Saint Jude - Apostle of Hope
www.stjudeshrine.org.uk

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Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · May 30

We often treat conservation like it’s only technical work.
But if we want to heal the Earth, we need to ask how and why we work.

Environmental problems are social, cultural, and spiritual.
Conservation careers should be too.

Message for info on career coaching. #Catholic #IntegralEcology

Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · May 21

🌿 Saint Bernardine of Siena 🌿
Bold in word and witness, he preached conversion in all things.

Integral ecology calls us to do the same—through faith & care for creation. 🌎💧🐝

Saint Kateri Habitats & Parish Arks help restore biodiversity and reflect God’s love in the land.

#CatholicSocialTeaching

Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · May 20

🌿 Saint Theophilus of Corte 🌿
A Franciscan devoted to prayer, peace, and simplicity.
His life reminds us: ecological conversion begins with inner conversion.

Live gently. Love deeply. Care for creation.
✝️🕊️🌍 #SaintOfTheDay #IntegralEcology #LaudatoSi #Catholic

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Ordinary (Ruined) Catholic @ordinarycatholic.bsky.social · May 11

Current photos of my son's Eagle Project from 2021 a Saint Kateri Habitat Mary Garden at our parish @saintkatericenter.bsky.social

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Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · May 13

So beautiful! What a great project for an Eagle Scout! Bless you!💚🙏

Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · May 10

🌿 "Dominion over nature—the task which God gave humanity—should not become tyrannical. It must be a relationship of reciprocity with the environment."

-Bishop Robert Francis Prevost #PopeLeoXIV #Catholic

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Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · May 9

🌿 "We must move from words to action, from dominion to reciprocity—with one another and with the natural world."
—Bishop Robert Francis Prevost (now #PopeLeoXIV)

Bishop Prevost rejected a tyrannical domination that only controls and exploits nature to embrace care for all creation. #Catholic

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Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · May 8

✝️ Habemus Papam! Welcome, Pope Leo XIV—the first pope from the U.S.!

May his ministry echo the humility, courage, and witness of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Indigenous saint of North America.

🌿 St Kateri, pray for Pope Leo & the Church.

#PopeLeoXIV #SaintKateri #CatholicChurch

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Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · May 7

🕊️As the Church chooses a new pope, we pray for wisdom, humility & holiness to guide the conclave.

May he carry forward the spirit of Saint Francis and Saint Kateri: love for God, for each other, for people who are poor, sick, or marginalized, and for all creation.

#Conclave #Catholic #JesusChrist

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Catholic News World @catholicnewsworld.bsky.social · May 7

#HolyMass Online - Bible Readings and Video : Wednesday, May 7, 2025 - #Eucharist in Your Virtual Catholic Church - C
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Holy Mass Online - Bible Readings and Video : Wednesday, May 7, 2025 - #Eucharist in Your Virtual Catholic Church - C

Catholic Church, Catholic News World, Vatican, Pope Francis, Breaking, Pope News, c na, Catholic Headlines,

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Catholic Climate Covenant @catholicclimate.bsky.social · Apr 11

Hey BlueSky! Catholic Climate Covenant brings together U.S. Catholics to care for our common home. Here we will share resources, climate news, and ways to take action - all rooted in faith and hope.

If you’re into creation care, justice, or just figuring it out, welcome. We’re glad you’re here 🌎🫶🏻

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Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · May 7

Great to see you on Bluesky! 🌿 We’re glad to be here with you—sharing faith, creation care, and hope. Grateful for all you do. ✝️🌎

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Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · May 1

🕊️ Cristina Gaztelu Vargas offered her suffering for others, living with deep love, beauty, and faith. Now, a prayer for her intercession has been approved for private devotion.

🦌💜🌸 Learn more and read the prayer:
kateri.org/cristina_gaztelu

#CristinaGazteluVargas #CatholicFaith #CareForCreation

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Saint Kateri Conservation Center @saintkatericenter.bsky.social · May 7

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