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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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W.S. Merwin, prize-winning poet of nature, dies at 91

March 15, 2019
PBS

HONOLULU — W.S. Merwin, a prolific and versatile poetry master who evolved through a wide range of styles as he celebrated nature, condemned war and industrialism and reached for the elusive past, died Friday. He was 91.

YDS climate panel pushes past denial and despair

March 14, 2019
Yale Divinity School

Hope does not come easy or cheap, as YDS Professor Clifton Granby put it, in a time when climate change is advancing and human society seems unable to respond.

But while not flinching from the enormity of the challenge—the greatest humans have ever faced, in the words of panel member Mary Evelyn Tucker—a YDS public forum in Atlanta on...

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