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Vatican presses politicians on climate change

April 28, 2015
By Roger Harrabin, BBC environment analyst
BBC

The Vatican Science Academy has challenged politicians to end their “infatuation” with a form of economic growth that is ruining the Earth.

The academy said that nations were measuring their wealth by GDP (Gross Domestic Product), taking no account of the harm caused by business practises.

It urged...

Pope Francis Steps Up Campaign on Climate Change, to Conservatives' Alarm

April 27, 2015
By Coral Davenport and Laurie Goodstein
New York Times

WASHINGTON — Since his first homily in 2013, Pope Francis has preached about the need to protect the earth and all of creation as part of a broad message on...

Despair is Optional

By Bill McKibben
Sojourners Magazine
May 2015
http://sojo.net/magazine/login?nid=68986

Reposted with permission from Sojourners magazine (sojo.net/magazine).

We’re like the bad babysitter who takes the 2-year-old out for a tattoo and...

Panel contemplates why the papal encyclical on the environment will matter

April 15, 2015
By Jamie Manson  
National Catholic Reporter

Pope Francis throws the weight of his office behind tackling climate change

April 15, 2015
By David Gibson
Religion News Service

NEW YORK (RNS) The Vatican is set to host a major conference on climate change this month that will feature leading researchers on global warming and an opening address by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The Church Should Lead, Not Follow on Climate Justice

April 8, 2015
By Tim DeChristopher
EcoWatch

Recently, there has been a growing discussion of climate change as a moral issue, both in academia and in religious communities. This past fall I spoke at three religion and climate change conferences in as many months, including a conference at Harvard Divinity School, “...

What the climate movement must learn from religion

April 4, 2015
By George Marshall
The Guardian

When preaching to the unconverted, activists need to offer the road to Damascus, not guilt and blame

Last September 40,000 people attended London’s largest ever climate march. This was a big achievement for an issue that struggles to catch people’s attention. After all, as psychologists point out, it is notoriously hard to...

Catholics prep for Pope Francis to tackle climate in upcoming encyclical

Will Pope Francis’ encyclical on global climate change find acceptance in his diverse flock?

By Marianne Lavelle
The Daily Climate
April 2, 2015

ARLINGTON, Va.—Dan Misleh, director of the Catholic Climate Covenant, found himself facing a skeptic recently after he outlined the coalition’s preparations for Pope Francis’ upcoming encyclical on global warming. 

The...

San Francisco Bay Area Refinery Corridor Healing Walks

April 2, 2015
Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN International) Blog

Forum: The Climate Change Crisis

March 2015
The Episcopal Church

The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society presents The Climate Change Crisis, a 90-minute live webcast originating from Campbell Hall Episcopal School in North Hollywood, California, in partnership with Bishop J. Jon Bruno and the Diocese of Los Angeles.

The webcast begins March 24 at 11 a.m. Pacific time (12 p.m. Mountain/1...

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