Laudato Si' Events

Conversations with Governor Bob Ferguson 
Rise of the Governors: Navigating contrasts, chaos, and the Constitution

Thursday, April 3rd at 1:30 pm 
Pigott Auditorium

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Please join the Department of Public Affairs and Nonprofit Leadership for their quarterly Conversations event. On Thursday, April 3, they will be hosting the newly-elected Washington state governor, Bob Ferguson, in conversation about pressing issues facing the state and the nation. The conversation will focus on how governors are managing the change in the relationship with federal government and the budget cuts that states are experiencing to a variety of programs: for veterans, people living in poverty, health care, medical research, climate, forest and energy management, and more.

Twilight Garden Meditation Walk

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Join CEIE and SU Gardeners for a walk through SU gardens accompanied by simple sensory meditations.
This event celebrates Earth Day and the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si with simple tools for deepening your connection with the earth.
After our walk, we'll have time to gather for food and conversation.
This event is cosponsored by CEIE, Seattle U Facilities & Grounds, SU Psychology Department.

Come, Have Breakfast
Book Discussion Group

• Wednesday, April 23, 12-1:30 pm in person, lunch provided
• Tuesday, April 29, 12:30-1:45 pm on Zoom, in discussion with Sr. Johnson

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“‘Come, have breakfast’ (Jn 21:12) These three simple words followed by generous action open a portal into an ecological image of the living God who is active with cordial hospitality toward all creatures, nurturing their lives, desiring that all should be fed.”

Join ICTC for a two-session group where we will read and discuss prize-winning theologian Elizabeth Johnson’s views on planet Earth, its beauty and threatened state, through the lens of scripture. Each luminous meditation offers a snapshot of one aspect of the holy mystery who creates, indwells, redeems, vivifies, and sanctifies the whole world. Together, they offer a panoramic view of the living God who loves the earth, accompanies all its creatures in their living and their dying, and moves us to care for our uncommon common home. For the first session, participants will have read a good portion of the book and will participate in preparing questions for our second session, a Zoom discussion with Sr. Johnson.

Elizabeth A. Johnson, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph, is Distinguished Professor of Theology Emerita, Fordham University, NYC. A former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and also of the American Theological Society, an ecumenical association, she is winner of the John Courtney Murray Award for distinguished achievement in theology, and numerous other awards. Her book She Who Is received the Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Following her retirement, she was inducted into Fordham University’s Hall of Honor. Among her many books are Friends of God and Prophets: A Feminist Theological Reading of the Communion of Saints; Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God; Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of Saints; and Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love. Her previous Orbis books include Creation and the Cross and Abounding in Kindness: Writings for the People of God. 

Past Events

Northwest Jesuit Advocacy Summit

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The Northwest Jesuit Advocacy Summit brings together Jesuit students, volunteers, parishioners, faculty, priests and other leaders to use the power of our collective voices to put our faith into action. 

Held from February 27, 28, and March 1, 2025, in Seattle and Tacoma, the event takes high-school students through a 3-day experience of Ignatian reflection towards prophetic action, with university students, Jesuit volunteers, parishioners, faculty and other adult allies joining for evening programming and a direct-action town-hall on Saturday morning

In the spirit of the Jesuit Apostolic Preference to “walk with youth toward a hope-filled future” parishioners, priests, teachers and community members are encouraged to join the summit to network with other Ignatian justice leaders, join in meaningful spiritual conversation with Jesuit students leading the next generation of justice work, and -most importantly- stand with these young leaders and Native-led activist groups as we engage in faithful collective action in solidarity with the Se Si Le and the Sacred Salmon Campaign.

Adults are invited to attend any of the below programs. You do not need to attend every event. The Saturday morning student-led town hall with elected officials is particularly important moment to stand with students as they take action, so if you can only attend one event, we encourage you to be there!

• Thursday February 27th at Bellarmine High Tacoma
  5:15 pm: “Already Ignited” Adult Justice Leader Dinner
  6:00 pm: Story Slam on Indigenous Climate Solidarity
• Friday February 28th at Seattle University
  6:30 pm: Intergenerational Conversation on Creation, Justice and Spirituality with Jesuit students and Jesuit Volunteers
• Saturday, March 1st at Seattle University
  10:00 am: Sacred Salmon Town Hall: Public Witness in Solidarity with Native Peoples on Salmon Watershed Protection

Faculty Research Presentation: Shared Concerns, Competing Perspectives

Dr. Stacey Jones and Dr. Dean Peterson, Albers School of Business & Economics

Wednesday, March 12, 2025
12:00pm to 1:30pm (lunch provided)
Pigott 107, Seattle University

The project makes a case for the inclusion of Catholic Social Thought (CST) in the introductory economics course. We argue that the contrast between the perspectives of CST and economics, especially with regard to the environment, can deepen students’ understanding of the underlying assumptions of economics and enable students to see the role that economics should play in an interdisciplinary effort to address climate change. The paper provides practical guidance to economics faculty who wish to bring the urgent call of Laudato Si' and Laudate Deum into their classrooms effectively.