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Pope Francis' Appeal for the Future

August 12, 2015
By Daniel C. Maguire
Consortium News

Pope Francis is pleading for world leaders to defend the rights of mankind and the future of nature against the power of corporations and the pillage of “free market” dogma, a warning about the planet’s survival that vested political and media interests reject out of hand, writes Daniel C. Maguire.

Pope Francis announces World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation

August 10, 2015
Vatican Radio

Pope Francis has decided to set up a “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation” which will be celebrated on September 1st annually.

He made the announcement in a letter to the heads of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity.

Listen to Lydia O’Kane’s report...

Balancing Science and Awe (Podcast with Mary Evelyn Tucker)

August 8, 2015
By Bridgett Ennis
Yale Climate Connections

Engaging people through love, awe, and wonder can help society address climate change.

Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists are convinced human-caused global warming is happening, but society has not yet taken sufficient action to limit emissions. Mary Evelyn Tucker of the Yale...

Theologian Leonardo Boff compares the Earth Charter and the Pope's Encyclical

Similarities between the Encyclical Laudato si’: “On Care for our Common Home” and the Earth Charter, “Earth, Our Home”

By Leonardo Boff
Earth Charter International
August 4, 2015

Praise Be!

By Rachel Findley and Shelley Tanenbaum

BeFriending Creation
Newsletter of Quaker Earthcare Witness

Volume 28, Number 4

July-August 2015

http://www.quakerearthcare.org/sites/quakerearthcare.org/files/bfc/bfc2804_0.pdf

Integrating Ecology and Justice: The New Papal Encyclical

By Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

Solutions

July-August 2015

www.thesolutionsjournal.org

Read the article:
http://fore.yale.edu/files/Tucker_Grim_Integrating_Ecology_and_Justice.pdf

More Than 180 Evangelical Leaders Endorse Obama's Carbon Reduction Plan

July 31, 2015
By Jack Jenkins
Climate Progress

More than 180 evangelical Christian leaders signed a letter this week backing President Barack Obama’s plan to reduce carbon emissions from power plants, the latest...

Among Republicans, Catholics More Likely to Believe that Global Warming is Happening

Full title:

Among Republicans, Catholics More Likely to Believe that Global Warming is Happening and Support Policies to Reduce It

By Yale Project on Climate Change Communication
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Summer 2015

Sacred Sites Research Newsletter (SSIREN)

July 2015

http://sacrednaturalsites.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSIREN-July-2015.pdf

Pope Francis on Animal Liberation

July 28, 2015
By Jane Gray Morrison and Michael Charles Tobias
Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere

Pope Francis’s “‘Encyclical Letter, Laudato Si’ Of The Holy Father Franciscus On Care For Our Common Home’” (“Given in Rome at Saint Peter’s on 24 May, the Solemnity of Pentecost, in the year 2015”), can easily be summarized by virtually any one segment of its...

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