Challenging ‘throwaway culture’: Catholic pro-life environmental organization launches.

Amid alarmist calls from some environmentalists, a new Catholic organization has stepped into the discussion of environmental stewardship with a tone of hope, aiming to promote a well-ordered relationship between human persons and the earth.

Clare Ath, co-founder and executive director of Vita et Terra, spoke with Zeale News in an April 7 email interview about the organization, which launched April 14 to promote pro-life environmental stewardship. 

Ath said she has spent the past decade striving to defend the unborn “on the front lines of the pro-life movement.” What has become clear to her, she remarked, is that “abortion doesn’t exist in a vacuum; it’s the logical outcome of a deeper cultural disorder.” 

The world today is steeped in a “throwaway culture,” as Pope Francis called it, “where anything or anyone can be discarded when it becomes inconvenient,” Ath continued. “That mentality doesn’t stop with the unborn; it extends to how we treat the land, our communities, and our responsibilities.” 

Read the full Zeale op-ed here: https://zeale.co/news/articles/exclusive-challenging-throwaway-culture-catholic-pro-life-environmental-organization-launches