This Thursday’s gathering will be a little different. First, I want to let you know that we have finally received our long overdue response to our appeal from the Dicastery for the Clergy in Rome. As expected, it supports the Archbishop’s decree of our closure. Without going into an extended discussion, we’ll tell you basically what it says (I had to use Google Translate to deal with annoying statements of policies from Rome issued in Latin) and what kind of rebuttal we expect to make as we take the next step, bringing the appeal to the Apostolic Signatura.
Second, we’ll return to our care for creation theme with presentations of the two morning seminars at the Turning the Tide for Ecology - 2023 Catholic Earth Day Summit held in April at Seattle University. All in attendance agreed that these were exceptionally engaging presentations and we are happy to watch them again. Both concern salmon, an obviously big issue here in the northwest. As a side note, one of the reasons for showing these presentations, rather than another documentary, is that I’m running into more documentaries that come with “HDCP”, High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection, that prevents them from being shared on zoom. We’ll revisit the list of possible documentaries I last circulated. But for tomorrow, here are the two presentations we will watch.
An Alaska State of Mind: The Salmon Way
Speaker: Amy Gulick – Photographer and author Amy Gulick is the recipient of the Voice of the Wild Award from the Alaska Wilderness League, the Daniel Housberg Wilderness Image Award from the Alaska Conservation Foundation, and the Conservation Voices Award from Washington Wild. Her work has been published in Smithsonian, Audubon, Sierra, and National Wildlife. She is a fellow with The Safina Center and the International League of Conservation Photographers. Her award-winning books include The Salmon Way and Salmon in the Trees. Visit: amygulick.com
King of Fish: The Thousand Year Fall of Salmon
Speaker: Dave Montgomery is a professor in the college of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He is a geomorphologist-that is, a scientist who studies the processes that shape the surface of the Earth, and how these processes shape ecosystems and human societies. His work has taken him to mountain ranges throughout the world, including the Cascades in Washington, the Andes in South America and the Himalaya in Tibet. David received his B.S. in Geology from Stanford University and his PhD from UC Berkeley. He has the gift of communicating in a clear, entertaining and motivating way to non-scientists. Professor Montgomery has written five highly acclaimed popular science books; three have won the Washington State Book Award and one, King of Fish-The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon has been acclaimed as the best single exploration of the decline of Salmon and recommendations for their recovery. (Personal footnote: I’m reading this book, on the last chapter now, and it is really good!)
Join us on zoom tomorrow night, June 8 at 7 pm, for viewing and discussion:
Friends of St Pat’s,
My apologies for this late notice, but we’ll get back together for another movie night tomorrow, Thursday, June 8, at 7 pm. The zoom link remains:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83839671043?pwd=NENlelB1dWZvZHVTTmRuS04xQ0tQUT09
This Thursday’s gathering will be a little different. First, I want to let you know that we have finally received our long overdue response to our appeal from the Dicastery for the Clergy in Rome. As expected, it supports the Archbishop’s decree of our closure. Without going into an extended discussion, we’ll tell you basically what it says (I had to use Google Translate to deal with annoying statements of policies from Rome issued in Latin) and what kind of rebuttal we expect to make as we take the next step, bringing the appeal to the Apostolic Signatura.
Second, we’ll return to our care for creation theme with presentations of the two morning seminars at the Turning the Tide for Ecology - 2023 Catholic Earth Day Summit held in April at Seattle University. All in attendance agreed that these were exceptionally engaging presentations and we are happy to watch them again. Both concern salmon, an obviously big issue here in the northwest. As a side note, one of the reasons for showing these presentations, rather than another documentary, is that I’m running into more documentaries that come with “HDCP”, High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection, that prevents them from being shared on zoom. We’ll revisit the list of possible documentaries I last circulated. But for tomorrow, here are the two presentations we will watch.
An Alaska State of Mind: The Salmon Way
Speaker: Amy Gulick – Photographer and author Amy Gulick is the recipient of the Voice of the Wild Award from the Alaska Wilderness League, the Daniel Housberg Wilderness Image Award from the Alaska Conservation Foundation, and the Conservation Voices Award from Washington Wild. Her work has been published in Smithsonian, Audubon, Sierra, and National Wildlife. She is a fellow with The Safina Center and the International League of Conservation Photographers. Her award-winning books include The Salmon Way and Salmon in the Trees. Visit: amygulick.com
King of Fish: The Thousand Year Fall of Salmon
Speaker: Dave Montgomery is a professor in the college of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He is a geomorphologist-that is, a scientist who studies the processes that shape the surface of the Earth, and how these processes shape ecosystems and human societies. His work has taken him to mountain ranges throughout the world, including the Cascades in Washington, the Andes in South America and the Himalaya in Tibet. David received his B.S. in Geology from Stanford University and his PhD from UC Berkeley. He has the gift of communicating in a clear, entertaining and motivating way to non-scientists. Professor Montgomery has written five highly acclaimed popular science books; three have won the Washington State Book Award and one, King of Fish-The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon has been acclaimed as the best single exploration of the decline of Salmon and recommendations for their recovery. (Personal footnote: I’m reading this book, on the last chapter now, and it is really good!)
Join us on zoom tomorrow night, June 8 at 7 pm, for viewing and discussion:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83839671043?pwd=NENlelB1dWZvZHVTTmRuS04xQ0tQUT09