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Ireland adopts 100-percent fossil fuel divestment strategy

July 19, 2018
By Sarah Mac Donald
National Catholic Reporter

Second-worst performing EU member on climate change used cross-party collaboration, church inspiration

Dublin — Ireland made history July 12 when it became the...

Climate change: The moral case for Christian action

July 19, 2018
By Joseph Sapati Moeono-Kolio
Christian Today

Vatican's former legal chief says canon law should include care of creation

July 17, 2018
By Elise Harris
Catholic News Agency

Rome, Italy - The Vatican’s former top advisor on canon law has made a public call to insert legal obligations for the care of creation into the Church’s universal canon law -  making it a legal duty for Catholics not only “not to harm” the environment, but to improve it.

Conservatives Must Join the Climate Change Conversation

July 13, 2018
By Mitch Hescox and Alex Flint
Christian Post

I urgently appeal, then, for a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet. We need a conversation which includes everyone, since the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affect us all....

Sisters mark anniversary of cornfield chapel symbolizing pipeline protest

July 10, 2018
By Catholic News Service
Global Sisters Report

The Adorers of the Blood of Christ held a prayer service and reflection July 8 to mark the first anniversary of the opening of a chapel in a cornfield that symbolizes their opposition to the building of a natural gas pipeline on their property in Lancaster County.

It also...

The world needs a change of heart on environmental issues, pope says

July 6, 2018
By Hannah Brockhaus
Catholic News Agency

Vatican City (CNA/EWTN News) - Christians have an important role to play in helping people have a change of heart and mind regarding responsible protection of the earth, Pope Francis said Friday.

'Laudato Si' Three Years Later: The US Response

July 5, 2018
By Judy Roberts
National Catholic Register

Diocesan action plans provide tips on how to better live out Pope Francis’ call for better care of our common home.

In the three years since Pope Francis issued his environmental epistle...

Al Gore: Pope Francis a 'moral force' for solving climate crisis

July 4, 2018
By Alessandro Gisotti
Vatican News

Nobel Peace Prize Winner and former U.S. Vice President, Al Gore, is one of the world’s most vocal defenders of the environment. His 2007 documentary film, “An Inconvenient Truth”, won an Oscar and his Climate Reality Project recently hosted an important summit in Berlin. In this exclusive interview with Vatican News, Al Gore...

Interreligious Response regarding Court Case on Endangered Species

July 3, 2018

Supreme Court of the United States

Weyerhaeuser Company (Petitioner) v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, et al. (Respondents)

On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Brief for Evangelical Environmental Network, et al. as Amici Curiae supporting Respondents

Major new research institute at Campion Hall

July 2, 2018
Jesuits in Britain

The Jesuits in Britain are pleased to announce that a new research institute called the Laudato Si’ Institute (LSI) is being established at Campion Hall, the Jesuit permanent private hall of the University of Oxford. The LSI will be established during the academic year 2018-2019 and...

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