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When Protest Becomes Sacrament: Grady Sisters Heed a Higher Call

These Catholic social justice advocates are exemplars of the force behind We Are Seneca Lake, one of the nation’s longest-running campaigns of civil disobedience.

By Nicholas Kusnetz
Inside Climate News
August 10, 2016

Top 10 messages of 'Laudato Si'"

August 9, 2016
By Father James Martin, SJ
Catholic San Francisco

Jesuit Father James Martin, editor-at-large for America magazine, distilled the nearly 200 pages of “Laudato Si’” into 10 key messages in a four-minute video produced last summer, offering Catholics a visual digest of the document. View it at sfarch.org...

Charity Sr. Paula Gonzalez, 'the solar nun,' dies at age 83

August 9, 2016
By Sharon Abercrombie
National Catholic Reporter

Environmentalists are mourning the death of Charity Sr. Paula Gonzalez, a Cincinnati nun who spent the last 45 years of her life advocating for renewable energy. Gonzalez, 83, died July 31 at the Charity Sisters’ Ohio motherhouse.

Closed mines haunt two towns in Honduras as threats against activists mount

August 8, 2016
By J. Malcolm Garcia
Global Sisters Report

Global Sisters Report is focusing a special series on mining and extractive industries and the women religious who work to limit damage and impact on people and the environment, through advocacy, action and policy. Pope Francis last...

Free Articles on Religion and the Environment

August 6, 2016
Oxford University Journals

Amazon megadam denied licence over environmental, indigenous concerns

August 4, 2016
By Megan Darby
Climate Home

The 8GW Sao Luiz do Tapajos hydropower project is expected to get the thumbs down from Brazilian regulators, in move cautiously welcomed by activists

A mammoth 8GW dam in the Amazon rainforest is set to be denied a licence, in a sign Brazil could be shifting away from hydropower.

Prayer for a planet: Pope Francis and the politics of climate change

August 4, 2016
By Bill Blaikie
iPolitics

Last week, about 2 million young people — including nearly 4,000 Canadians — gathered in Poland to hear Pope Francis speak at Catholic World Youth Day. Even if, like me, you’re neither young nor Catholic, this was still an event with interesting ramifications for Canada and our politics.

Youth Urge Pope to Push Harder for Divestment

August 1, 2016
By Ruth McCambridge
Nonprofit Quarterly

On World Youth Day, celebrated this year in Krakow, Poland, an open letter signed by over 120 youth groups was delivered to Pope Francis, asking that he urge Catholic organizations of all kinds to divest from fossil fuels while continuing his own efforts to divest the...

Liberation Ecology: Interview with Leonardo Boff

August 2016
Great Transition Initiative

John Ahni Schertow shines a spotlight on indigenous resistance

July 30, 2016
By Stephyn Quirke
Street Roots News

Indigenous peoples’ struggles go unseen by much of the world. IC Magazine’s editor is working to change that.

On June 30, Carol Linnitt of the online news magazine DeSmog Canada reported that a controversial crude oil pipeline had just been defeated in British Columbia, writing “Enbridge Northern Gateway: ‘First Nations...

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