Care for Creation
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2025 Poster Contest Winners Announced!
Congratulations to the winners of our 2025 "Care for God's Creation" Earth Day Poster Contest.
This year's Earth Day Poster Contest was bigger than ever before!
With nearly 300 entries having been submitted in this year's contest, the judging was tough, but the winners have been chosen:Kindergarten & First Grade winner: Gus McLaughlin
Resurrection Elementary- Dubuque
Second & Third Grade Winner: Haley Kay ReuterSaint Frances Xavier School- Dyersville
Runners Up in both categories have also been selected.
Kindergarten & First Grade Winner:
Olivia Rose Rollins, St. Columbkille Elementary- Dubuque
Second and Third Grade Winner:
Michah Kruse, St. Francis Xavier School, Dyersville
The first-place winners in the "Care for God's Creation" Earth Day Poster contest will each receive a $100 prize, while the runners-up will receive $50 each.
In addition, the Archdiocesan Department of Catholic Social Teaching, which sponsored the contest, will make a matching donation to the Catholic Climate Covenant to support their ongoing efforts to inspire and mobilize the U.S. Catholic community to care for creation and work towards achieving climate justice.
For more information, please visit CatholicClimateCovenant.org.
Entries were judged on Artistic Merit, Originality, Neatness, and the Poster's message. This year's contest was open to all students in grades K-Third Grade who reside in the Archdiocese of Dubuque.
For more information, contact the Director of Catholic Social Teaching, Deacon Brian Zeman, at [email protected] -
2024 Earth Day Poster Contest Winner with Archbishop Zinkula
Evie Houhlihan, a 2nd grader at St. Columbkille School in Dubuque, won our 2024 Archdiocesan schools' Earth Day poster contest. The contest was held to raise awareness of the critical Catholic Social Teaching of Caring for God's Creation and was sponsored by the Department of Catholic Social Teaching.
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2024 Poster Contest Winner
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Would you like to start a "Creation Care Team?"
The Archdiocese of Dubuque and the Catholic Climate Covenant would like to support your launch of a Creation Care Team.What is a Creation Care Team? (CCT) It is a group that enables committed Catholics to look at ways to address the various threats to our environment through action and advocacy. Your CCT could be within your parish, school, religious community, or workplace. Within a parish, a Creation Care Team could be a sub-committee of your parish Social Justice Committee or a stand-alone group; either way, you'd be uniting people to make a difference.
To find out more, please get in touch with Deacon Brian Zeman, Director of Catholic Social Teaching, or visit catholicclimatecovenant.org/program/creation-care-teams -
Care for Creation Outreach opportunity for your Parish
To promote the critical Catholic Social Teaching of Caring for God's Creation, please consider hosting a screening of the documentary "A Message for our Earth: The Letter." This movie is available to view individually or shown to interested parishioners, with discussion to follow. If you are interested in this opportunity, please view the trailer with the link below, or for more details, visit: catholicclimatecovenant.org/letter-message-our-earth/ -
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Watch this introduction to Pope Francis' Apostolic Exhortation "Laudate Deum"
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Archdiocesan Pastoral Center Staff volunteer on Earth Day 2024 to plant trees at New Melleray Abbey
On Monday, April 22nd (Earth Day), ten employees from the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center planted nearly 1,800 tree saplings at the New Melleray Abbey, home of the Trappist Monks. This volunteer team-building activity brought staff together and impacted the environment by helping create a natural buffer between the farm fields and nearby Catfish Creek. New Melleray Abbey Forester John Schroeder led the group and noted that the number of trees planted on this day was equivalent to what he and his helper could do in four days. Thank you to all those who participated!
Pictured from left to right: Dcn. Brian Zeman, Matt Selby, Jen Hayes, Jenny Litterer, Kim Schmidt, Joanne Pohland, Karen Hoeger, Dcn. John Stierman, Cassie Bird, Forester John Schroeder, and Jeff Schneider
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Contact Us
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Deacon Brian Zemanb.zemandbqarch.orgDirector of Catholic Social Teaching
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