ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates the concepts of intersectionality that can help map, deepen, and otherwise further inform Catholic green praxis when concerns associated with analytical concepts such as class, gender, race and ethnicity, and indigeneity are harvested from the tradition and re-contextualized because of their cogency in the service of an integrated socio-ecological ethic. It describes programming initiatives undertaken by an intentional community of Catholic nuns, and a coalition for responding to the challenges of a shifting climate from a broadly Catholic perspective. This large-scale mapping demonstrates something of the current and potential value of Catholic green praxis for the creative functioning of an Earth community under threat by climate change. Difficult ecological challenges, including Global Climate Change (GCC), were presented as the product of human practices that neither respected the integrity of creation nor human dignity and, as such, generated both ecological and ethical issues.
