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Meet "Franciscan Sister" Beate Krug: Bergoglio’s new Climate Czar




Question: Sister Beate, your community is part of "Churches for Future". How did it come about?

Sister Beate: We became aware of the ecuмenical network Climate Justice. We have been members since 2019 and in the same year the movement "Churches for Future" developed. We found that worth supporting and joined. Although this is also a loose association and not something binding - as with "Fridays for Future".


Question: What does your involvement with "Churches for Future" look like? I have seen pictures of demonstrations, among other things.

Sister Beate: Exactly, we also participate in the climate strikes. There are usually big, global climate strikes twice a year. During the pandemic, that went down a bit, but now it's starting again. We also have two big banners that hang on the houses, for example, or on the monastery wall, just at the time of the climate strikes or during Creation Time, which the Christian churches celebrate annually from 1 September, the World Day of Prayer for Creation, to 4 October, the feast of St. Francis. There is a regional group of committed people here. We also had a discussion with the bishop to consider what can be done. In the ecclesial sense, it's about a three-step process. This includes the liturgia, to pray for the cause. The martyria, the proclamation: We are given life in abundance and we can contribute to all having life in abundance. And of course the diakonia, the working. These must go hand in hand.

To set an example, a banner hangs on the monastery wall of the Oberzell Franciscan Sisters.

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