News Items

June 18, 2019
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

Marking the fourth anniversary of Pope Francis’ landmark social encyclical on the environment, the Catholic bishops of California issued their own sweeping pastoral statement on threats to the state’s many ecosystems, inviting the church community and all Californians “to contribute to the ecological well-being of our...

June 14, 2019
By Fiona Harvey and Jillian Ambrose
The Guardian

Pope Francis has declared a global “climate emergency”, warning of the dangers of global heating and that a failure to act urgently to reduce greenhouse gases would be “a brutal act of injustice toward the poor and future generations”.

June 7, 2019
United Nations Environment

Science and religion are often thought of as being at odds on many issues.  On the question of the environment, however, there’s widespread agreement.

From Buddhism to Christianity to Hinduism to Islam, various faiths acknowledge the need for environmental stewardship and their holy texts urge adherents to be caretakers of the Earth...

Pope Francis tells finance ministers they have “the responsibility of working to achieve the goals that your governments have adopted” to combat climate change.

Vatican News
May 28, 2019

At a discussion on the Sustainable Development Goals, organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope Francis described climate change as “an issue of great importance for...