Speaker bio page for Seán McDonagh

Bio

Seán McDonagh, SSC, is an Irish Columban missionary priest who worked for more than two decades in the Philippines. As well as theology he has studied Anthropology and Linguistics. During his time as a missionary among the T'boli people in S.E. Mindanao, Philippines, he became aware of the enormous destruction of the environment which was taking place and has continued to challenge behaviour which destroys the Earth and impoverishes People. His book To Care for the Earth (1986) was one of the first theological books to address the ecological crisis.