The English bishops recently had a meeting with Christopher Toohey, the Australian bishop and founder of “Catholic Earth Care Australia”, the Catholic environmental agency that over the last five years has specialized in actions to protect the environment. The aim of the meeting was to enable English bishops to understand how to promote ecological initiatives. Toohey visited English and Scottish dioceses. He spoke to Parliament at Westminster. In Bristol he launched, together with Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor, Primate of England and Wales, and the Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien, leader of Scottish Catholics, the project “Sound of Many Waters” (www.soundofmanywaters.org), a year of initiatives in support of the environment. “Sound of Many Waters” is the brainchild of the writer Mary Colwell, an expert on environmental issues who works for the BBC, and of Declan Lang, Bishop of Clifton, who is environmental spokesman for the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. The project is supported by the WWF, CAFOD and the Australian and North American Bishops’ Conferences. “We must be better organized in our response to environmental problems and a policy at the national future seems the way ahead”, declared Bishop John Arnold, delegate for the environment of the Archbishop of Westminster Council, the committee of wise men that supports he Primate Murphy-O’Connor.
