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Next Steps: After Pope Francis

June 25, 2015
Catholic Climate Covenant

FROM THE DIRECTOR

WHAT A WEEK: For Our Common Home 

It’s been a tremendously exciting week here at the Covenant. Our staff read Pope Francis’s encyclical at home in the wee hours of the morning, and we were texting each other all the way through with exclamations of joy and surprise. I’ve got to tell you that...

Yale Environment 360 - A Note From the Editor

June 25, 2015

Steven Rockefeller on Laudato Si' and the Earth Charter

June 25, 2015
Earth Charter International

Laudato Si, the new encyclical issued by Pope Francis, is to a large extent a carefully crafted Christian theological discourse in support of ethical and spiritual values that are also fundamental to the Earth Charter.  Pope Francis, therefore, chose to include a quotation from the Earth Charter in the encyclical, the first and last...

Mary Evelyn Tucker: Climate Change Brings Moral Change

June 25, 2015
Earth Charter International

The Encyclical Laudato Si' and the Earth Charter

Earth Charter International
June 25, 2015

Earth Charter International joins the millions of people and organizations that have congratulated Pope Francis and are hopeful about the release of the highly anticipated Laudato Si’ Encyclical Letter on Care for Our Common Home, which significantly echoes the ethical vision proposed in the Earth Charter.

Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp comments on the Pope's Encyclical

June 25, 2015
Earth Charter International

Elizabeth May: Why Pope Francis's statement is important

June 24, 2015
Earth Charter International

Thoughts on Pope Francis' Laudato Si

June 23, 2015
By Herman Daly
Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

Laudato Si': An encyclical of re-membering

June 24, 2015
By Margaret Galiardi
Global Sisters Report – Capital E: Earth

Molloy College in Rockville Centre, Long Island, offered a new course this past spring semester that I designed and co-taught. It was entitled, “The Rights of Nature.” The course description explained that students would examine various paradigms for understanding the Earth / Human relationship from “...

Don't go back to sleep

June 23, 2015
By Joan Brown
Global Sisters Report – Capital E: Earth

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