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Anticipation building for papal encyclical on environment

February 12, 2015
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The much-anticipated encyclical by Pope Francis on the environment, expected sometime this spring or early summer, is generating a lot of buzz in Washington and elsewhere.

At the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, a Feb. 9 panel discussion on climate change and other environmental issues had...

Job Opening: The Aldo Leopold Distinguished Teaching Chair in Environmental Ethics and Education

The Lawrenceville School

Lawrenceville, NJ, USA

 

The Lawrenceville School is seeking an exceptional educator with the vision, energy,  and initiative to fulfill the objectives of the Aldo Leopold Distinguished Teaching Chair in Environmental Ethics and Education.  Aldo Leopold attended Lawrenceville at the turn of the century,...

Religious Leaders Confronting Climate Change: Podcast with Mary Evelyn Tucker

February 11, 2015
Yale Climate Connections

Most of the world’s religions — including Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism — have said that protecting vulnerable people and the earth are moral imperatives. These values are inspiring religious leaders to speak out on climate change.

TUCKER: “Clearly this is already adversely affecting vulnerable people of lower incomes be...

Pope Mass: Protecting Creation a Christian responsibility

February 9, 2015
Vatican Radio

Christians are called to care for God’s creation. That was the Pope’s message at Mass this Monday morning at the Casa Santa Marta. The Holy Father also spoke about the “second creation”, the one performed by Jesus that he “re-created” from what had been ruined by sin.

The Role of Religious Environmentalism

February 9, 2015
Council on Foreign Relations

 

Speaker: Mary Evelyn Tucker, Codirector, Forum on Religion and Ecology, Yale University


Moderator: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations

 

Listen to the audio:...

Pope Francis: It's Christian to protect the environment

February 9, 2015
By David Gibson, Religion News Service
USA Today

VATICAN CITY — If you are a Christian, protecting the environment is part of your identity, not an ideological option, Pope Francis said Monday.

“When we hear that people have meetings about how to preserve creation, we can say: ‘No, they are the greens!’” Francis said in his homily at morning Mass, using...

Rediscovering the moral dimension of climate change

Pope Francis’s forthcoming statement on climate change could just revitalise progress towards significant emissions cuts, writes Jonathon Porritt. But more than that, it will open up the space for a wider spirituality to guide our thinking, and campaigning, on climate and other key global challenges.

February 9, 2015
By Jonathon Porritt
The Ecologist...

Green Church Newsletter

February 2015

http://egliseverte-greenchurch.ca/green/index.php?option=com_acymailing&ctrl=archive&task=view&mailid=57&key=0adb4156f253d07aa655966554bc601f...

Eco-Congregation Scotland Newsletter

February 2015

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Capsules - Creation Justice Ministries Newsletter

Winter 2015

http://www.creationjustice.org/capsules.html

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