{"id":200272,"date":"2019-01-21T23:55:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T07:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcnews&p=200272"},"modified":"2019-01-17T16:37:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T00:37:41","slug":"bringing-digital-transformation-to-the-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"arcnews","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcnews\/bringing-digital-transformation-to-the-catholic-church","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Digital Transformation to the Catholic Church"},"author":1432,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[791,121552,291],"tags":[20382,301882,134972,237901,271],"arcnews_issues":[300072],"class_list":["post-200272","arcnews","type-arcnews","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-transformation","category-geodesign-2","category-nonprofit","tag-cartography","tag-catholic-church","tag-land-management","tag-land-use","tag-mapping","arcnews_issues-arcnews-winter-2019","arcnews_sections-news"],"acf":{"short_description":"Land use has a moral dimension to it. That\u2019s why Molly Burhans wants to help the Catholic Church better manage its land\u2014first by mapping it.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":null,"file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cIn the history of civilization, there likely hasn\u2019t been anything that has caused more conflict than either land (and who controls it) or religion. And part of that is because these are two of the most powerful leverage points for change in a civilization.\u201d\r\n\r\nThat\u2019s what Molly Burhans, the founder and executive director of a nonprofit called GoodLands<\/a>, incisively pointed out during a recent interview. And she would know: her organization, with help and support from Esri, is currently mapping out all the land owned by the Catholic Church."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":200312,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cThe way we use our lands has a moral dimension,\u201d said Burhans, who was exploring becoming a nun in college when she first noticed that the Church was unwittingly overlooking its most financially and politically powerful asset\u2014its land. \u201cThe environment is the spatiotemporal matrix where all our good works play out. You can be a person who cares about the earth, and you can ignore the poor and ignore all the vulnerability in society. But if you\u2019re a person who cares about the poor and the sick, you can\u2019t ignore the environment.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe way landscapes are constructed has a profound influence on everything, she remarked, from child development and asthma to education and economic status.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe environment is critical for almost every mission of the Church,\u201d Burhans added. \u201cHow we use our land can change the world. But we need maps to make smart decisions about it.\u201d\r\n\r\nWhile nobody really knows how much land the Church owns, it is certainly one of the largest private landholders in the world. Considering that it runs the most extensive network of health-care institutions and nongovernmental schools around the globe, it would be no surprise, according to Burhans, if the Catholic Church did control the largest amount of land on earth.\r\n\r\nBut the last maps the Catholic Church made of its landholdings date back to the Holy Roman Empire. Burhans and her team at GoodLands\u2014which now consists of herself, 14 part-time employees and volunteers, and a network of about 50 technology contractors\u2014essentially had to start from scratch. The data that is needed to create a high-level map of the Church\u2019s georeligious boundaries is scattered all over the world\u2014from libraries in Connecticut to streetside posters in Hyderabad, India. But because Burhans possesses an exceptional capacity to think about the big picture while not letting any of the details slide, this truly monumental project is making progress, producing the most expansive yet comprehensive map and dataset of Catholic-owned land the world has ever seen.\r\n

Seeing the Whole but Not Overlooking the Parts<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nIt seems that Burhans has always been able to consider broad strokes and minutiae concurrently. The daughter of two scientists, she started dabbling in scientific illustration when she was 14 years old. At first, she just did it for them. But then their colleagues began reaching out to her with projects, so she made illustrations in exchange for their lecture notes and syllabi.\r\n\r\n\u201cWhen I was younger, I was so interested in how the human body worked, but it seemed so complex,\u201d she recalled. \u201cI drew on this big sheet of paper this massive, empty human body, and I used layers of tracing paper to fill it in with all its parts.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":200322,"image_position":"left","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Using intricate layers to fill in a blank slate and distilling complex ideas into a visual display, Burhans unsurprisingly sees a direct correlation between scientific illustration and cartography.\r\n\r\n\u201cIf you\u2019re putting an illustration together of a human ear, that\u2019s just like the layers of a map,\u201d she said. \u201cMy brain was already in this space to be thinking just like GIS when I encountered it.\u201d\r\n\r\nBut that didn\u2019t happen until she went to graduate school. First, she took a few years after high school to travel and work with nongovernmental organizations before attending Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, where she majored in philosophy. While there, Burhans cofounded her first company, GroOperative, an indoor vertical farm that grows food in stacked layers and turns all its profits over to farmworkers. This is also when she spent time at a Catholic congregation in the northeastern United States, getting to know the ways of its nuns. It was here that she observed the Church\u2019s shortcomings in land management.\r\n\r\n\u201cI saw that these sisters were some of the most holy, good people in action. I mean, they were getting rival gang members to bake bread together. But they had a lot of houses in the inner city that were underused, and their mother house in the country had unkempt swaths of forest and acres of mown lawns,\u201d Burhans recalled. \u201cI thought I should help them figure this out before seriously considering joining any specific religious community. Along the way, I discovered that no one was really helping the Church manage its real estate in a way that\u2019s aligned with its mission.\u201d\r\n\r\nWith this in mind, Burhans entered a graduate program in ecological design at the Conway School, a unique program in Northampton, Massachusetts, that emphasizes teaching whole-systems theories for sustainable landscape planning and design. That\u2019s where Burhans first encountered Harvard Graduate School of Design professor emeritus Carl Steinitz\u2019s work and was able to apply the concepts of geodesign to the real world via the client projects she and her classmates had to do."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":200332,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cI had this really amazing, very flexible education that allowed me to explore and live the geodesign methods in practice,\u201d said Burhans.\r\n\r\nWhile the majority of students who graduate from Conway go on to found their own landscape companies, Burhans took a bit of a different approach to her entrepreneurial aspirations. She decided that geodesign was the way she could parlay her landscape design-based education and interest in cartography into a venture that could help Catholic dioceses\u2014and those nuns she so greatly admired\u2014more sustainably manage their land and real estate holdings.\r\n\r\n\u201cI took less than a week off between finishing grad school and founding GoodLands,\u201d she said.\r\n

From One-Off Projects to a Worldwide, Cloud-Based System<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nOnce Burhans set up GoodLands, she wanted to do a complete land analysis before getting any contracted jobs. Working out of the Hartford Public Library in Connecticut, she used the Hartford Archdiocese as a prototype.\r\n\r\n\u201cI wanted to work through what a project would look like and then pitch it to them,\u201d she said. \u201cI started to just map out all the information within the archdiocese that I could find.\u201d\r\n\r\nShe used a lot of data from the University of Connecticut, the state, and local municipalities to see what was there and then did an environmental analysis of everything the archdiocese owned. Burhans quickly learned that her organization needed to offer broad solutions that encompass three key domains: the environment, financial concerns, and social issues.\r\n\r\nThis project also gave Burhans an inkling of what Catholic land looked like around the world, so she started thinking bigger than doing one-off projects for individual dioceses. What if she could build a global database of all the land the Catholic Church owned to help members and leaders of this major world religion understand the environmental value of their property and how it relates to space? She could not only educate dioceses on how to conserve portions of their land to protect threatened species, but she could also formulate a comprehensive overview of how the Church can use its land to help tackle huge problems such as climate change and mass migration."},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","image":200342,"text":"I don\u2019t want to give people a master plan that sits on a shelf. I want to give people their maps, their entire plans, in a cloud-based format that they\u2019ll use.","author_name":"Molly Burhans","author_profession_organization":"Founder and Executive Director, GoodLands"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"With this outlook, the fledgling organization grew in importance fast. Not even a week after launching the GoodLands website, Landscape Architecture Magazine<\/em> reached out to Burhans to do a story on her and her project. That was the first piece of press ever about GoodLands, and after its release in December 2015, the momentum kept building. Pope Francis had released his encyclical on the environment, Laudato si\u2019<\/em>, earlier that same year, which prompted the formation of a global community to figure out how the Church relates to sustainable development and environmental challenges. Additionally, the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, took place in Paris around the same time the Landscape Architecture<\/em> article came out.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe timing was perfect,\u201d recalled Burhans. \u201cI just felt it. The fact that we are faced with this massive, daunting challenge not only of our environment being destroyed around us\u2026but also of migration inevitably increasing in the coming decades, I knew that a project like GoodLands needed to happen.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe following month, Burhans and two of her mentors flew out to Redlands, California, to give an executive briefing to Esri president Jack Dangermond and his advisory team about mapping the Catholic Church\u2019s boundaries worldwide.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe got a small grant from Esri, and then [Dangermond] opened up the Esri Prototype Lab to GoodLands, which was invaluable,\u201d said Burhans.\r\n\r\nShe spent time at Esri as a visiting researcher, working with the Prototype Lab to create a dynamic map of all the land the Catholic Church oversees. Burhans also worked with Esri Professional Services to start designing a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for the Catholic community. And the cartography team helped her make web maps for a map exhibit in the Vatican\u2019s Casina Pio IV villa as part of the Vatican Art and Technology Council.\r\n\r\nAround the same time, Burhans visited Vatican City and met with the Secretary of State\u2019s office to see if she could obtain any global boundary datasets the Holy See had for Catholic parishes, dioceses, and conferences around the world. There were none.\r\n\r\n\u201cThey hadn\u2019t had a map update since the Holy Roman Empire,\u201d recalled Burhans. \u201cI asked, \u2018Is there any reason why this hasn\u2019t happened, and do you mind if I do this?\u2019 They looked at my prototypes and said that, yes, global boundary sets would be useful.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":203952,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"With tacit approval from the Vatican to continue with the project, Burhans set about expanding GoodLands\u2019 offerings. The organization does a range of specialized projects for individual dioceses and other landowners: coming up with holistic master plans for how to best use land and real estate, doing climate change risk assessments, developing map-based communication systems, and building GIS-based data structures. It is also weaving this into a larger network of spatial data that Burhans hopes can bring the Catholic Church\u2019s maps into the twenty-first century.\r\n\r\n\u201cA lot of the Church is still pre-digital transformation by hundreds of years,\u201d said Burhans. \u201cI am so excited about the possibility of getting the entire Church into the digital age because I think it has a really important role in multiple ways\u2014one of them being understanding a healthy relationship with technology and another being how we can ensure the intelligent and respectful use of data,\u201d which could be akin to formulating a sort of digital canon law.\r\n\r\nThe map of the boundaries of Catholic-owned lands is the basis of all GoodLands\u2019 work, but there are hundreds of maps buttressing that. GoodLands has close to 1,000 maps in its back end, both on- and offline, that stem from various projects, including client work and activities with the Vatican. And Burhans and her team employ a range of ArcGIS technology to execute their groundbreaking mission\u2014from ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro, and ArcGIS Enterprise for doing heavy mapping and data management to Survey123 for ArcGIS for data collection, Esri CityEngine for 3D modeling, and GeoPlanner for ArcGIS for planning and design. Burhans hopes to soon incorporate ArcGIS Hub into the stack to help individual dioceses manage and share their data on their own.\r\n\r\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to give people a master plan that sits on a shelf,\u201d explained Burhans. \u201cI want to give people their maps, their entire plans, in a cloud-based format that they\u2019ll use.\u201d\r\n\r\nAnd that\u2019s exactly what a robust GIS can do.\r\n

Stewarding This Invaluable, Groundbreaking Data<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nBurhans has met Pope Francis three times since founding GoodLands. Once, she presented him with a version of the master boundary map, which he received with a lively smile. When she met the pope again this past summer, it set in motion a venture that Burhans never could have imagined.\r\n\r\n\u201cI received some permissions to establish a test-run cartography institute in the Vatican under the Pontifical Academy of Sciences,\u201d said Burhans. \u201cWhile we have initial approval, we are all deliberately moving slowly.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":200362,"image_position":"left","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Discussions are ongoing around how the institute could work to be most beneficial to the Church\u2019s current needs, while Burhans and her team proceed with side projects and research that are relevant to the Vatican\u2019s goals.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis would be the first scientific institution founded in the Holy See since the Vatican Observatory,\u201d Burhans pointed out.\r\n\r\nIt was that observatory that ushered in the Gregorian calendar, which much of the world uses today. And that calendar was approved by Pope Gregory XIII. So Burhans understands how consequential this new institute could be and how far papal approval can take something.\r\n\r\n\u201cGoodLands has the only global boundary dataset for the Church and a growing catalog of information about its property assets around the world,\u201d said Burhans. \u201cBecause we have this, I\u2019m hoping we can help establish the cartography institute\u2019s structure and then let it go from GoodLands and have it become part of the Holy See. From the institute, in the long run, I feel like we could see the emergence of the authoritative boundaries of the Church.\u201d\r\n\r\nFor now, however, the global boundaries are being mapped and released cautiously, so far only available via video demonstrations that don\u2019t allow users to interact with the data. This is intentional. Burhans wouldn\u2019t want to pinpoint where every Catholic Church is in environments that are hostile to Christianity and then have people get hurt because of that.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis is the first time any major world religion has been mapped around georeligious boundaries,\u201d she said. That carries with it a great responsibility, which Burhans is well suited to shoulder.\r\n\r\n\u201cI don\u2019t know why I am the person who ended up in this position\u2026but I\u2019m really grateful that I have had this mind-set of looking at the big picture,\u201d she reflected.\r\n\r\nBurhans does expect that within the next 5 to 10 years, a public version of the boundaries will be released. But she\u2019s looking toward the Vatican to steward that data. Then, who knows how far it could go in helping nonstate actors\u2014the Church, businesses, and nongovernmental organizations\u2014manage complex issues, from climate change and food security to migration and so much more.\r\n\r\nFor more information about GoodLands, email info@good-lands.org<\/a> and explore the Making Land Work for Good<\/a> and Map Tour of the Catholic Church<\/a> story maps."}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"\nBringing Digital Transformation to the Catholic Church<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Land use has a moral dimension to it. 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