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By Carolyn Monastra from 'A Witness to Climate Change'

Catholicism & the Environment

The Editors
June 8, 2017
U.S. Catholicism
Domestic Affairs
Economy
Environment
Pope Francis
Secularism and Modernity

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The Next Step

'Laudato si’' develops a notion of solidarity within and between generations, not only with fellow human beings but with the whole earth and all its creatures.
By Anthony Annett
July 7, 2015
Environment
Pope Francis
Social Justice
Theology
U.S. Catholicism
Article

Climate of Folly

Why are Catholic politicians backing Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Accord?
By Anthony Annett
June 2, 2017
Environment
Donald Trump
Foreign Affairs
Pope Francis
Web Exclusive
Climate Change
Feature

Witness to Climate Change

"I am drawn to the precarious places that mark the shifting boundaries between nature and the effects of our not-so-natural disasters"
By Carolyn Monastra
March 11, 2017
Environment
Arts
Web Exclusive
Climate Change
Article

Climate Change: Responding to Minimizers

Requesting arguments against the climate change deniers
By Peter Steinfels
November 29, 2015
Environment
Climate Change
Article

'Everything Is Connected'

For Francis, climate change is part of a larger ecological crisis—that itself is part of a larger ethical failure involving how we treat the poor and the unborn.
By The Editors
June 29, 2015
U.S. Catholicism
Pope Francis
Environment
Economy
Editorial
Poverty
Theology
Article

Bishops of the World Unite on Climate Change

The world’s bishops are for the first time fully united behind an extremely ambitious climate agenda—and that includes the US bishops.
By Anthony Annett
October 26, 2015
Environment
Article

Educational Video on Laudato si'

By Anthony Annett
September 1, 2015
Environment
Pope Francis
Article

All Hands on Deck

The National Climate Assessment report makes clear that the emission of carbon is causing climate change; this is not a hypothesis, but a scientific fact
By The Editors
May 13, 2014
Environment
Barack Obama
Domestic Affairs
Editorial
Climate Change
Article

Why Climate Change is Not a Prudential Judgment

By David Cloutier
June 10, 2015
Environment
Article

Paul Ryan, Laudato Si', and the Paris Climate Accord

Paul Ryan and Pope Francis disagree on how climate change will impact the poor.
By Paul Moses
October 5, 2016
Theology
U.S. Catholicism
Domestic Affairs
Environment
Pope Francis
Poverty
Social Justice
Climate Change
Article
Polemics around climate change issue are Catholic polemics as well

Does the Earth Have Rights?

By Robin Darling Young
April 30, 2015
U.S. Catholicism
Pope Francis
Environment
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope John Paul II
Social Justice
Climate Change
Article

At Our Mercy

We have failed utterly to protect our planet and those who share it with us; for Christians, this constitutes a profound break with God
By Elizabeth A. Johnson
January 23, 2014
Environment
Evolution
Religious Life
Theology
Climate Change
Article
The environment has long been a poor stepchild within Christian theology, and the Catholic Church is no exception

They're Getting Warmer

By Eduardo M. Peñalver
April 3, 2008
Domestic Affairs
Short Take
Article

Regeneration

The concepts of ecological sustainability are not foreign to Congolese, who have a deep conviction that the land belongs first and foremost to their ancestors
By Mary Frohlich
November 7, 2011
Environment
The Last Word
Article

Hispanics Lead U.S. Catholics on Climate Change

Nearly 90 percent of Latinos in a recent study cited a “moral duty” to preserve the planet for children and to respect ancestors’ legacy of care for the earth.
By Katie Rose Quandt
March 11, 2015
U.S. Catholicism
Pope Francis
Environment
Poverty
Web Exclusive
Article

Bread, Butter & Climate Change

The environmental movement gets criticized for neglecting social and economic injustice. But California is seeking to align climate and economic policy-making.
By Luke Mayville
December 23, 2015
Domestic Affairs
Pope Francis
Economy
Environment
U.S. Catholicism
Article

Ten Quick Takeaways from Laudato Si'

Interconnected ecology and the Pope's call for stewardship.
By Anthony Annett
June 18, 2015
Environment
Pope Francis
Climate Change
Article

The Theological Heart of Laudato Si'

The overwhelming immediate importance of Laudato Si’ is to call both church and world to respond to the “urgent challenge to protect our common home”
By David Cloutier
June 18, 2015
Environment
Article

The Sacrament of Creation

The Jewish and Christian traditions put before us a worldview in which humanity is not against nature but a part of it. (From 1990)
By Rev. Michael J. Himes and Rev. Kenneth R. Himes, O.F.M
January 26, 1990
Environment
U.S. Catholicism
Secularism and Modernity
Domestic Affairs
Theology

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