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John Haught
John Haught

John F. Haught, research professor in Georgetown University’s theology department, will discuss “Science, Theology and Pope Francis’ Ecological Vision,” at Gonzaga University’s Flannery Lecture in March.

“Unless we feel that we truly belong to the natural world, as Pope Francis points out, we will lack sufficient incentive to take care of it as our home,” Haught said in a press release.

Haught contends there is currently a broken connection between humans and nature that has been sanctioned by the notion that the universe has no point, meaning or purpose.

“It is difficult for living and thinking beings, after all, to feel a warm relationship to a universe that seems essentially lifeless and mindless,” he said in the press release.

Haught’s presentation will explore Pope Francis’ affirmation in “Laudato si,” his landmark 2015 encyclical on the environment, that the universe indeed has a purpose, namely: to bring about the self-justifying value of beauty.

Th lecture will be at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 2 in the Cataldo Hall Globe Room at Gonzaga. The event is free and open to the public.

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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Brad Thompson
Brad Thompson
8 years ago

I am eternally grateful to Father Tyrrell for introducing me to this man’s work, and I very much hope to make it.

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