Shrewsbury bishop in call to Catholic teachers
Catholic teachers have a key role in countering the "deadly threat" of practical relativism highlighted by Pope Francis in his new letter on the environment, the Catholic Bishop of Shrewsbury has said.
The Rt Rev Mark Davies said the letter published last week shed light on the vital role of the Catholic teachers in sharing with new generations the wisdom of God's plan in creation.
Among these were the restoration of the sense of a created order in which each human being has a purpose, a vocation, he said during a homily at a mass for the Catholic teachers of the Diocese of Shrewsbury.
"The Holy Father in his 180-page letter has not followed trends or theories, as headlines have suggested, but offers a vision of humanity as part of a created order," Bishop Davies said at the mass at Chester Catholic High School.
"The world is not a meaningless result of blind chance, as many of our young people are being taught today, it is the result of a thought in the mind of God and that is true of every one of us. We have a place in God's plan.
"When human beings fail to find their true place in this world, Pope Francis says they misunderstand themselves and they end up acting against themselves. We misunderstand the world if we do not see ourselves as part of a created order based on wisdom and goodness."
