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A papal statement on climate change could lead to greener Britain

May 8, 2015
By Soli Salgado  
National Catholic Reporter

A third of British Catholics say they would consider “greening” their lifestyles should Pope Francis make an official statement on climate change.

Pope Francis: 'If We Destroy Creation, Creation Will Destroy Us'

May 6, 2015
By Kieran Cooke
EcoWatch

A declaration at the end of a meeting in Rome hosted by the Vatican made a plea to the world’s religions to engage and mobilize on...

Climate Change and the Christian Gospel: Why we need to respond more urgently

By David Atkins
Ekklesia
May 6, 2015
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/21667

A Roaring Force from One Unknowable Moment

Mary Evelyn Tucker in conversation with Kathleen Dean Moore

Orion Magazine
May | June 2015
https://orionmagazine.org/issue/mayjune-2015/

The story of the universe has the power to change history

Pope Francis Unlikely to Sway Catholic Republicans on Climate Change

Party doctrine will probably trump church doctrine in Congress, experts say, where more than a quarter of lawmakers are Catholics.

By Katherine Bagley
InsideClimate News
May 1, 2015

Pope Francis plans this summer to issue an influential and the first-ever encyclical devoted to global warming and its effects on the world’s poor. Credit: Jeffrey Bruno/Aleteia

Pope Francis has given the climate movement just what it needed — faith

April 30, 2015
By Chris Mooney
Washington Post

This week — and it still feels strange to write this — the major climate change news story came out of the Vatican.

Blessed Are the Climate Advocates

The Vatican and United Nations present the beatitudes of a new movement.

By Michael Shank
Slate
May 1, 2015

This week, while at Vatican City in Rome to manage press for the first-ever meeting on climate change between Pope Francis and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, my faith in a force more powerful was renewed. I am not religious, despite being descended...

Pope Francis' Encyclical on Global Warming

April 30, 2015
By Henry Auer
Global Warming Blog

Encyclicals.  Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, will soon issue a papal encyclical on global warming.  An encyclical is a document transmitted through the church hierarchy to its 5,000 bishops, and from them to all 400,000 parish priests.  In this way its...

Should the Thirty Meter Telescope Be Built?

April 30, 2015
PBS Hawaii

Construction of a Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea has been brought to a temporary halt as protests over building the 18-story high telescope stretch across the globe. Plans to build the $1.4 billion telescope have been seven years in the making, but opposition only gained momentum recently amid growing concern over further astronomy-related development...

Pope Francis poised to weigh in on climate change with major document

April 27, 2015
By Michelle Boorstein
Washington Post

The largely secular climate movement is about to get what some predict will be a historic boost from an intriguing source: Pope Francis.

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