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Tracing the Roots of Pope Francis's Climate Plans for 2015

December 31, 2014
By Andrew C. Revkin
Dot Earth
New York Times

One of the highlights of my year, perhaps my career, was being able to participate in “Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Nature: Our Responsibility,” a four-day Vatican workshop aimed at shaping strategies for...

Review of Ecology and Religion by John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Grim, John and Mary Evelyn Tucker. Ecology and Religion. Washington, DC: Island, 2014.

Review by Sam Mickey

The Trumpeter
Volume 30, Number 1 (2014)

http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/1377/1655

What Can a Popular Pope Do About Climate Change?

The pontiff plans to issue a rare and controversial plea for Catholics to consider the environment. Recent polls show his message just might resonate.

By Nicholas St. Fleur
The Atlantic
December 30, 2014

Pope Francis has ambitious environmental plans for 2015. Come March, he will deliver a 50 to 60-page edict urging his 1.2 billion Catholic followers to take action...

Religious Studies Can Help Save the Planet

December 29, 2014
By Chris Crews
State of Formation

The Pope Thinks Climate Change Is a Major Threat. So Do American Catholics.

Most Catholics say global warming is a “crisis” or a “major problem.”

By James West
Mother Jones
December 30, 2014

Pope Francis's edict on climate change will anger deniers and US churches

By John Vidal
The Guardian
December 27, 2014

Pontiff hopes to inspire action at next year’s UN meeting in Paris in December after visits to Philippines and New York

Pope Francis: climate evangelist?

By Virginia Gewin
Flux

December 19, 2014

Overview

Pope Francis is expected to produce the first ever encyclical - the highest level Catholic teaching document - focused solely on the environment and climate change next year. Scientists have made the case that climate change threatens the natural world. Can religious leaders now make the moral case for...

Care for the Whole Creation: The World Council of Churches at COP20 in Lima

December 17, 2014
By Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Huffington Post

It felt like the world had descended upon Lima, Peru. Political leaders, scientists, activists, NGOs, world leaders and religious leaders gathered at the COP20 (20th annual Conference of the Parties, sponsored by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC...

Preparing for the Storm: Anticipating and Countering the Attacks on Pope Francis and His Encyclical

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Preparing for the Storm: Anticipating and Countering the Likely Attacks on Pope Francis and His Environmental Encyclical

December 16, 2014
By Dan DiLeo
Millennial Journal

The New Paradigm of Energy Ethics

By Erin Lothes
Global Energy Affairs
December 2014

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