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by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Archbishop Paul Coakley, Catholic Charities, Catholic Climate Covenant, Catholic Health Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Climate change, Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, Medicaid, News, Taxes | 0 |
Landmark legislation to address climate change, reduce prescription drug costs and establish a minimum tax on large corporations once thought dead but was suddenly passed by the Senate is being hailed by Catholic advocates.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 5, 2022 | Bishop Emeritus Richard Pates, Bishop Richard Pates, Care for Our Common Home, Catholic Climate Covenant, Catholic Community Foundation, Featured, Jose Aguto, Kat Doyle, Laudato Si, Local News, News, Social justice teachings | 0 |
Many Catholics will identify with some aspect of Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for our Common Home,” and the more they learn about environmental issues, the better chance they’ll get involved in sustainability efforts, said panelists at a March 29 forum on the subject at Annunciation in Minneapolis, organized by the Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 18, 2022 | Catholic Climate Covenant, Climate change, Jose Aguto, Laudato Si, News, Practicing Catholic | 0 |
Jose Aguto, executive director of Catholic Climate Covenant, said scientific consensus and politicians from both sides of the aisle acknowledge that human activity is the principal cause of climate change. The question is not whether people’s energy use is a major source of climate change, he said, but rather, “what do we do to address it?”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 5, 2021 | Catholic Climate Covenant, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Creighton University, Laudato Si, Laudato Si' Movement, Maryknolls, News | 0 |
It was after reading Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” that Emily Burke began wondering what she could do to help protect the environment.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 1, 2021 | Care for Our Common Home, care of creation, Catholic Climate Covenant, Climate change, Creighton University, Featured, Laudato Si, Maryknoll, News, Protect the environment, U.S. & World News | 0 |
It was after reading Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” that Emily Burke began wondering what she, as a student at Jesuit-run Creighton University, could do to help protect the environment.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 11, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic Climate Covenant, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Climate change, Environment Ecology, Global Catholic Climate Movement, Global warming, Laudato Si, Laudato Si' Movement, News, United Nations | 0 |
The latest climate assessment report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, was released Aug. 9.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 11, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic Climate Covenant, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Climate change, Environment Ecology, Global Catholic Climate Movement, Global warming, Laudato Si, Laudato Si' Movement, News, United Nations | 0 |
The latest climate assessment report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, was released Aug. […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 29, 2021 | Catholic Charities, Catholic Church, Catholic Climate Covenant, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Drought, Environment, Laudato Si, News, Water | 0 |
Faith has taught that water can be powerful, from a baby’s baptism to Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic Climate Covenant, Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Church in the US, Environment Ecology, News, Paris agreement, President Joe Biden, USCCB | 0 |
Catholic leaders welcomed President Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day announcement that the United States would rejoin the Paris climate change agreement.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 25, 2020 | 2020 election, Catholic Church, Catholic Climate Covenant, Catholic News Service, Catholic votes, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, Climate change, Environment Ecology, faith and politics, Laudato Si, News | 0 |
A large majority of Catholic voters believe climate change is a serious or somewhat serious concern and that governments at all levels as well as corporations and individuals must take stronger action to address it, according to results of a new poll released Oct. 22.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Cardinal Peter Turkson, Catholic Church, Catholic Climate Covenant, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, Environment Ecology, Georgetown University, Laudato Si, lead, News | 0 |
When a baby cries, parents leave everything and try to stop their baby from crying: Where is that same urgency when it comes to the cries of the earth and the poor? That was the challenge posed by Cardinal Peter Turkson to an online conference on Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’s 2015 ecological encyclical.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 27, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic Climate Covenant, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Environment Ecology, Global Catholic Climate Movement, Laudato Si, News | 0 |
Participants in diocesan environmental ministries credit Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” for raising awareness and motivating Catholics and others to act in countless ways to protect creation.
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