2025 Poster Contest Winners Announced!
This year's Earth Day Poster Contest was bigger than ever before!
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.
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/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