Guest Speak Bernie Evans

This week yet another truly interesting and inspiring week. This week we had the privilege of having a guest speaker in Bernie Evans with us to discuss the Encyclical that has been written by Pope Francis. Bernie Evans thought us a wide background of information about Pope Francis, the Catholic Church and it's viewpoints on several moral and ethical views, as well as helped to break down and ensure that we all understood the Encyclical and what was meant by several other big points found within the Encyclical. I personally found it very interesting to hear about these issues presented in the Encyclical written by Pope Francis from the perspective of a person such as Bernie Evans who has spent the majority of his life studying the church and topics such as personal viewpoints of the church and the Catholic religion overall. I am a Catholic myself so I found these two days of class especially rewarding because I learned as well as was refreshed on several of the Catholic church's teachings and viewpoints. Bernie Evans inspired me to continue to live my life in accordance with the Catholic church and in the views of Pope Francis, and God overall. I also found this week interesting because this week was a sort of "alternate" perspective to look at the ideas and concepts of climate change. It was a unique perspective to look at the concepts of climate change through the catholic church's eyes and viewpoints and learn about what should be done on many of these moral issues in accordance to the catholic church and viewpoints to be in accordance with God. I have been truly enjoying having the opportunity to hear from these guest speakers and their knowledgeable positions in relation to climate change and I look forward to hearing from Jean as well.