Look back: Oration Carmody Grey and Symposium 10 years Laudato Si'

5 December 2025

'Integral Ecology is about the mission to be human on this earth." These words form the core of the inaugural speech made by Professor Carmody Grey on Friday 21 November, in a well-stocked auditorium of Radboud University. "This mission is threefold:being human, and not another kind of creature;on this earth, for we have no other; andit's an assignment, it demands our action." With this she officially initiated her professorship as a special professor Integral Ecology to the Laudato Si hindered institution.

The lecture

Professor Grey's speech,Practices of Communion. The Task of an Integral Ecology,Expanded and deepened the .ecological issue . . . . to restore our relations with each other, with creation and with the Creator. According to Carmody Grey, that requires a fundamental change of attitude towards the world. We have to live, she argued, from the question; How can I contribute to this?Peace and blessingHow can I grow this? That is the opposite of thinking from what it calls technocratic paradigm, which essentially focuses on the question: What can I get out of this? What's the point of this? As the ultimate example of aPractice of CommunionCarmody Grey called it motherhood. That embodiment of fundamental bondage, care and devotion reflects the essence of the revolution of tenderness that Pope Francis called upon in Laudato Si.

The address can be viewed in full via the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=PLylxyN278E

Symposium10 years Laudato Si'

Prior to the lecture organised Socires together with the Laudato A symposium with the titleTen years of Laudato Si... and the new social issue.After the official launch by Willem the White of the world's firstInternational Bibliography for Integral Ecology, who should make a heterogeneous academic field of work insightful and promote cooperation, Professor Johan de Tavernier spoke in 10 years' time Laudato Si hindered dialogue with recent climate insights. Dr. Tanja van Hummel took the audience in the field of farmers in Twente and showed how Catholic-social thinking in that region practices of Integral Ecology • Then Sumandri Simbolone talked about indigenous and Catholic religious practices Kalimantan, Indonesia and how these creative merge into local thinking about nature in a way that helps to bridge ethnic conflicts.