Laudato Sí

Making the Connections

Authors

  • Sandie Cornish dvk

Keywords:

Laudato Si, Pope Francis, Theology, Nature

Abstract

Laudato Sí is an important and timely teaching document with great
relevance for the peoples of Asia. Pastoral agents in the local churches
of Asia need to understand this teaching in order to play their part in
making it known, and interpreting its implications for local faith
communities. This paper provides hermeneutic keys to assist pastoral
workers to understand the encyclical and its place within the corpus of
Catholic Social Teaching. It examines the context in which the
encyclical was issued, its purpose and audience, the teaching authority
that it holds, its methodology and main concerns, and its contribution
to the body of CST. These reflections are intended to better equip
pastoral workers in Asia to engage more deeply with the meaning and
implications of the encyclical for the thinking and action of local
churches. Through such engagement, they may be able to make
contextualized contributions to the ongoing development of the local
and universal social teachings.

Author Biography

Sandie Cornish, dvk

Sandie Cornish is the Province Director of Mission of the Society of the Sacred
Heart in Australia and New Zealand. She is a sessional lecturer with the missiology
department of the Catholic Institute of Sydney, and at the Australian Catholic
University, and a visiting lecturer in social ministry at the East Asian Pastoral
Institute. She has worked with the Good Shepherd Sisters in research and social
policy, and with the Jesuits in research, policy, planning and formation in their social
ministries. She led the Asian Centre for the Progress of Peoples and was the National
Executive Officer of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council. Sandie holds a
Bachelor of Economics, a Licentiate in Catholic Social Doctrine and Ethics (PUG), and
a Master of Public Policy. She is a Doctoral Candidate in the School of Theology at
the Australian Catholic University. Email: sandie.cornish@gmail.com

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Published

2015-12-31

How to Cite

Sandie Cornish. (2015). Laudato Sí: Making the Connections. Asian Horizons, 9(04), 609–620. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/2534

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 04 (2015): ASIAN HORIZONS

Section

Articles