President Obama made addressing climate change the most prominent policy vow of his second inaugural address and stressed that our country has everything it needs to turn the tide against global warming and ecological disaster: “youth and drive, diversity and openness, and an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention.”

He may as well have been describing what the friars and lay partners of Franciscan Holy Name Province have been doing in the past few months to promote what Pope John Paul II called “an ecological conversion” in our efforts to address climate change