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Interfaith Oceans Urges Honoring Divine Gift of Oceans on World Oceans Day

Promotes Faith Advocacy to Protect Oceans through Free On-line Resources

 

Climate encyclical expected to send strong moral message to the world

June 8, 2015
By Barbara Fraser, Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

Lima, Peru – Pope Francis’ upcoming encyclical on ecology and climate is expected to send a strong moral message – one message that could make some readers uncomfortable, some observers say.

5 Reasons Pope Francis' Encyclical on the Environment Matters

The first encyclical on the environment in the history of the Catholic Church has its detractors, but it also has the power to inspire meaningful climate action.

By Reynard Loki
AlterNet
June 7, 2015

Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the Common Good?

June 5, 2015
By Kamran Mofid
Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative (GCGI)

(This article is dedicated to the children of the world, the torch bearers of the next sustainable agenda, who are the unfolding story of the decades ahead. May they rise to the challenge of leading our troubled world, with hope and wisdom in the interest of the common good to a better future...

About Pope Francis' Encyclical, "Laudato sii"

June 5, 2015
By Terri MacKenzie
Ecospirituality Resources

WHEN: The Pope’s highly anticipated first encyclical is expected to be published June 18th, 2015.

All children deserve a healthy climate

June 3, 2015
By Mitchell C. Hescox  
Eco Catholic
National Catholic Reporter

Pope Francis’ increasingly powerful statements on global warming highlight that climate action is becoming a growing moral imperative for all people of faith. Why? Because climate action is about saving people.

The pope’s highly anticipated encyclical will come after a long history of...

"Cultivating and Caring for Creation," 12 new on-line videos and study guides

“Cultivating and Caring for Creation”
12 new on-line videos and study guides in anticipation of Pope Francis’ coming encyclical, “Praised Be,” on the environment (unconfirmed publication date: June 16, 2015).

Green Spirit Television
June 2, 2015

Earth Keeper Newsletter

June 2015

Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute

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Pope Francis' climate change encyclical expected to make global impact

May 30, 2015
By Ed Stannard
New Haven Register

Pope Francis’ much anticipated encyclical about climate change will make a major impact throughout the Roman Catholic Church and beyond, propelled by the severity of the issue and the pope’s personal popularity, say religious and environmental leaders in Connecticut.

Pope Francis' Integral Ecology

By Dave Pruett,
Former NASA researcher; Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, James Madison University
Huffington Post
May 28, 2015


“The age of nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the earth.” – Teilhard de Chardin

 

There’s a new term being bandied about, and it’s high time we paid heed...

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