Fr. Jim O’Shea, provincial for the Passionists, welcomes guests to the Thomas Berry Place for the grand opening ceremony on Earth Day 2022. (Courtesy of Milton Javier Bravo) Thomas Berry Place There was a time when the religious superiors of Passionist Fr. Thomas Berry attempted to marginalize the 20th-century monk-scholar and his ideas about the intrinsic value of nature, humanity’s destruction of the Earth, and the 14-billion-year story of the universe. Now, they have named a retreat house in Queens a
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