Jesuits in the four provinces of India’s western region are leading a quiet revolution by aiming to become energy self-sufficient using only sunlight, setting an example for others to follow for sustainable, clean energy to protect the environment. About 60 institutions “have achieved zero electricity bills for quite some time and demonstrated that it is a viable project to save the only home we have — the fragile Earth,” says Father Frazer Mascarenhas, coordinator of the Ecology Platform of Jesuit West Zone Provinces in India. One of them is Vinayalaya, a Jesuit-run training centre, in western Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The centre has completely switched to solar power to generate renewable energy. The project aims to install solar panels in all 110 Jesuit residences, schools, and institutions in the four Jesuit provinces of the Western Zone — Bombay (Mumbai), Goa, Gujarat, and Pune — that together have 1,340 Jesuit priests and brothers.
Spanish bishops speak out after leaks of their meeting with Leo XIV
The executive committee of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, (CEE, by its Spanish acronym) meeting in Madrid this week, issued an official statement regarding the leaks
