Roughly 40 members of St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Coralville gathered on Sunday to discuss concerns over water quality and what the local community can do to improve Iowa waters.
Hosted by the church’s Green Team, a group dedicated to promoting environmentally friendly practices, the meeting invited the local community and its church members to learn, “What’s in our water? Where does it come from? And what can we do about it?”
The initiative comes out of the church’s Laudato Si’ mission — a faith-based sustainable initiative based on the late Pope Francis’ calls for climate action in the Laudato Si encyclical, a letter sent out from the pope to all bishops in the Catholic Church…