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The Epic of Evolution and a Theology of Sacramental Ecology

By David C. McDuffie

Religions 2019, 10, 244.

This article belongs to the Special Issue “Sacramental Theology: Theory and Practice from Multiple Perspectives.”

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People of faith must act to confront the challenges of climate change

April 1, 2019
By Temperince Morgan and David A. Armstrong
Miami Herald

Faith communities are addressing challenges posed by climate change in South Florida through both teaching and action. In his 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si: On Care for our Common Home,” Pope Francis identifies climate change as a moral issue and calls for “a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future...

A Cultural Revolution for an Integral Ecology

By Luis T. Gutiérrez

Mother Pelican: A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

April 2019

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In battle for Amazon, church officials unite with indigenous communities

March 28, 2019
By Rhina Guidos
Crux

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Catholic Church has been present in the Amazon for centuries, but that presence has not come without errors, said Peruvian Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno. One of those errors is the way it once approached the region’s indigenous communities, he told a news conference during a seminar to discuss how the church and...

Women in Amazon take more prominent role in environmental protection

March 26, 2019
By Rhina Guidos
Crux

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In indigenous Kichwa communities, women like Patricia Gualinga have traditionally taken on the role of wife, mother and cultivator of the crops that families use to survive in Ecuador’s Amazonian region of Sarayaku.

Bishops say EPA plan to roll back pollution rule would harm the unborn

March 25, 2019
By Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

Washington — Unborn children would face greater health risks if the Environmental Protection Agency moves to rescind a rule regulating hazardous air pollutants emitted by power plants, said the chairmen of two U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committees.

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Amazonia Synod - US Conference stresses Church commitment to indigenous people

Columban Missionary Society
March 21, 2019
Independent Catholic News

Representatives of the Pan Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM) have been meeting with senior Church leaders at a US university this week, ahead of October’s Synod of Bishops on Amazonia. Georgetown University in Washington DC hosted a conference 19-21 March, organised by REPAM, titled, ‘Integral Ecology: A...

Holy See: Church is committed to integral ecology of indigenous people

At an international conference in Georgetown University, Washington DC, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations in New York, spoke about the Church’s commitment to the indigenous people.

By Robin Gomes
Vatican News
March 20, 2019

Faith activists urge UN Environment Assembly to address human side of climate change

March 18, 2019
By Fredrick Nzwili
National Catholic Reporter

NAIROBI, Kenya — At a small tent on the edge of the U.N. campus here, environmental activists from the world’s faith traditions huddled on the sidelines of last week’s March 11-15 meeting of some 5,000 environmental scientists, politicians and civil society, the fourth gathering of the United...

Sacred Sites Research Newsletter

March 2019

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