Cathwor 8.3 Dignity Affirming

1. Catholicism in the Modern World's Problems and Challenges

2. Trinity as a whole is (perhaps) the foundation and the best expression of all life-giving relationships: God in three persons, in a constant movement and embrace.

3. (Source: December, 1994 http://www.goodshepherdberkeley.org/docs/InAllOurLoving.pdf)

4. We praise you for your love, Living God, creator of heaven and earth, source of all being. We praise you, O God.

5. We praise you for your love, Lord Jesus Christ, Word made flesh, crucified and risen We praise you, O God.

6. We praise you for your love, Spirit of truth and unity, life-giver. We praise you, O God.

7. (Source: December, 1994 http://www.goodshepherdberkeley.org/docs/InAllOurLoving.pdf)

8. Reshape our concept between soul less matter (life less matter) to non-human Life

9. Living things and non-living things categories are unacceptable...

10. Reshape our concept to these categories: Human and Non-Human Life On Earth

11. Dignity-Affirming Faith

12. (Source: Antonio Ingles, Cathwor, http://www.teachnologists.com)

13. Life-Affirming Culture

14. (Source: Rosemary Radford Reuther, Ecofeminism, http://www.spunk.org/texts/pubs/openeye/sp000943.txt)

15. It is, in fact, human beings who cannot live apart from the rest of nature as our life-sustaining context...

16. while the community of plants and animal both can and, for billions of years, did exist without humans.

17. (Source: Rosemary Radford Reuther, Ecofeminism, http://www.spunk.org/texts/pubs/openeye/sp000943.txt)

18. The global affluence (competition), based on exploitation of the land and labor of the many for the benefit of the few,

19. …its high consumption of energy and waste, cannot be expanded to include the poor

20. … it’s destroying the basis of life of the planet itself.

21. We are literally destroying the air, water and soil upon which human life and planetary life depends.

22. Every year ten million children die of malnutrition.

23. (Source: Rosemary Radford Reuther, Ecofeminism, http://www.spunk.org/texts/pubs/openeye/sp000943.txt)

24. WAR between Anthropocentrism & Cosmocentrism.

25. Anthropocentrism views reality relative to Man…as the measure of all things…

26. Cosmocentrism views reality relative to Cosmos…as the measure of all things…

27. Reality is not as it looks,… Things are not what they seem.

28. (Source: http://reason-and-rhyme.blogspot.com/2007/04/anthropocentrism-vs-cosmocentrism.html)

29. Reality is not as it looks,… Things are not what they seem.

33. A light-year or lightyear (symbol: ly) is a unit of measurement of length, specifically the distance light travels in a vacuum in one year.

34. A light-year is equal to: 9,460,730,472,580.8 Km

35. 3 zeros Thousand 1,000 6 zeros Million 1,000,000 9 zeros Billion 1,000,000,000 12 zeros Trillion 1,000,000,000,000 15 zeros Quadrillion 1,000,000,000,000,000 18 zeros Quintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000

36. A light-year is equal to: 10 Trillion Km.

37. Milky Way Galaxy to Andromeda Galaxy 21 Quintillion Km away or 2.3 million light-years away.

38. The End