April 2015 News

April 30, 2015
April 30, 2015By Henry AuerGlobal Warming Blog Encyclicals.  Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, will soon issue a papal encyclical on global warming...
April 30, 2015
April 30, 2015PBS Hawaii Construction of a Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea has been brought to a temporary halt as protests over building the 18-story high telescope...
April 28, 2015
April 28, 2015By Roger Harrabin, BBC environment analyst BBC The Vatican Science Academy has challenged politicians to end their “infatuation” with a form of economic growth...
April 28, 2015
April 27, 2015By Michelle BoorsteinWashington Post The largely secular climate movement is about to get what some predict will be a historic boost from an intriguing source:...
April 27, 2015
April 27, 2015By Coral Davenport and Laurie GoodsteinNew York Times WASHINGTON — Since his first homily in 2013, Pope Francis has preached about the need to protect the...
April 24, 2015
By Bill McKibbenSojourners Magazine May 2015http://sojo.net/magazine/login?nid=68986 Reposted with permission from Sojourners magazine (sojo.net/magazine). We...
April 16, 2015
April 15, 2015By Jamie Manson  National Catholic Reporter New Haven, Conn. - As anticipation builds in progressive Catholic circles about the forthcoming papal...
April 15, 2015
April 15, 2015By David GibsonReligion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) The Vatican is set to host a major conference on climate change this month that will feature leading...
April 9, 2015
April 8, 2015By Tim DeChristopher EcoWatch Recently, there has been a growing discussion of climate change as a moral issue, both in academia and in religious communities....
April 5, 2015
April 4, 2015By George MarshallThe Guardian When preaching to the unconverted, activists need to offer the road to Damascus, not guilt and blame Last September 40,000 people...
April 3, 2015
Will Pope Francis’ encyclical on global climate change find acceptance in his diverse flock? By Marianne LavelleThe Daily ClimateApril 2, 2015 ARLINGTON, Va.—Dan...
April 3, 2015
April 2, 2015 Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN International) Blog In the San Francisco Bay Area of California, the Chevron refinery in Richmond is a...
April 1, 2015
March 2015The Episcopal Church The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society presents The Climate Change Crisis, a 90-minute live webcast originating from Campbell Hall...
April 1, 2015
March 31, 2015By Charles J. Reid, Jr.The Huffington Post Pope Francis is poised, within the next two or three months, to announce one of the signature documents of his papacy...