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BRIEF: Gonzaga to sign Care for Creation Pledge

By: Tracy Simmons

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October 3, 2013

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President Thayne McCulloh of Gonzaga University will sign the St. Francis Pledge to Care for Creation and the Poor at 12:15 p.m., Oct. 7 on campus.

At the signing ceremony, all Gonzaga faculty, staff, students and alumni are invited to sign the pledge along with him, according to a news announcement. The public is invited to attend.

The St. Francis Pledge is a project of the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change.

Then, at 7 p.m., in Jepson Room 108, there will be a special program, “Melting Ice, Mending Creation: a Catholic Approach to Climate Change.” It will begin with prayer for creation and moves to a presentation on climate change and Catholic teaching.

The events are hosted by Gonzaga’s Advisory Council on Stewardship and Sustainability (ACSS).

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 Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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