June 2015 News

June 30, 2015
June 30, 2015By Sandra SteingraberWe Are Seneca Lake Media Contact: Sandra Steingraber | 607.351.0719 photos: http://www.wearesenecalake.com/photos-faith/ video: http://...
June 30, 2015
June 29, 2015By Alex Muyebe, S.J., and Peter Henriot, S.J.Irish Missionary Union It was a very tall and very full tree, branches thick and thin.  Ideal for cutting down...
June 29, 2015
June 29, 2015By Monica G. Turner, David W. Inouye, and Jill S. BaronEcological Society of America The following statement is attributable to the Ecological Society of America...
June 29, 2015
Vatican officials to discuss climate change and environment with scientists and activists including Naomi Klein By Rosie Scammell The GuardianJune 28, 2015 Thousands of...
June 29, 2015
Earth Charter+15 Landgoed Zonheuvel, The Netherlands June 29, 2015 http://www.earthchartervrienden.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Earth-Charter-in-2015-7-6-2015-2.pdf
June 28, 2015
June 28, 2015By Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Josh HallidayThe Guardian Tibetan spiritual leader endorses pope’s radical message on environment and calls for more pressure...
June 28, 2015
June 28, 2015 By Paul Vallely New York Times In the days just before its publication, those involved in drafting the pope’s controversial eco-encyclical Laudato Si...
June 28, 2015
June 28, 2015 By Elisabetta PovoledoNew York Times VATICAN CITY — When Pope Francis appeared on the balcony of the Apostolic Palace, where he delivers an address each...
June 28, 2015
By Dana BeachCoastal Conservation LeagueJune 27, 2015     Folks,   The events of these last two weeks will undoubtedly be counted among the most important...
June 26, 2015
June 25, 2015Catholic 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...
June 25, 2015
June 25, 2015Earth Charter International Pope Francis is clearly one of the most popular people on the planet at present. With his love for the poor, his willingness to...
June 25, 2015
June 25, 2015 At Yale Environment 360 this week, journalist Daniel Grossman travels to the Himalayan region of India to report on new research indicating that the...
June 25, 2015
June 25, 2015Earth Charter International Taking in the extraordinary message of the Pope word by word I am reminded of two seemingly contradictory commentaries on how the...
June 25, 2015
June 25, 2015Earth Charter International Laudato Si, the new encyclical issued by Pope Francis, is to a large extent a carefully crafted Christian theological discourse in...
June 25, 2015
Earth Charter InternationalJune 25, 2015 Earth Charter International joins the millions of people and organizations that have congratulated Pope Francis and are hopeful...
June 24, 2015
June 24, 2015Earth Charter International WireService.ca Media Release (06/20/2015) Ottawa, ON - “It is increasingly odd to realize that the voices of the established order,...
June 24, 2015
June 24, 2015By Margaret GaliardiGlobal Sisters Report – Capital E: Earth Molloy College in Rockville Centre, Long Island, offered a new course this past spring...
June 24, 2015
June 23, 2015By Herman Daly Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy As a Protestant Christian my devotion to the Catholic Church has been rather minimal, based...
June 23, 2015
June 23, 2015By Antonia BlumbergHuffington Post To many religious climate activists, caring for the environment isn’t just a good idea – it’s a moral...
June 23, 2015
June 23, 2015By Joan BrownGlobal Sisters Report – Capital E: Earth I was leading the ninth annual Women’s Wilderness Camping Retreat in the Santa Fe National...
June 23, 2015
June 23, 2015By Chris CrewsState of Formation This is the first in a multi-part series exploring the Laudato Si’ Encyclical Letter on the environment by Pope Francis. “...
June 22, 2015
June 22, 2015By Ruud LubbersEarth Charter International In 2015, the U.N. will agree on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Conference of Parties to the U.N....
June 22, 2015
June 22, 2015 By Fritjof CapraFritjofCapra.net The title of the Pope’s new encyclical, Laudato Si’ (“Praise Be to You”), dated May 24, 2015, and...
June 21, 2015
June 21, 2015New York Times The encyclical by Pope Francis released on Thursday did not merely present a papal view on the environment and climate change. It was also an...
June 21, 2015
Could the Pope’s climate change encyclical change the world? By Stephen Bede ScharperToronto StarJune 21, 2015 Twenty years ago, I taught a course on religion and the...
June 21, 2015
June 21, 2015By Barrie DunsmoreRutland Herald This past week Pope Francis inserted himself directly into the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. Whether or not that was the...
June 20, 2015
June 20, 2015By Justin GillisNew York Times For an earnest young Christian named Ben Lowe, revelation came on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in Africa. A relentless warming...
June 20, 2015
June 19, 2015 By Bartholomew and Justin WelbyNew York Times On Tuesday, the British medical journal The Lancet will publish a landmark report highlighting the inalienable and...
June 20, 2015
June 2015By Gary BraaschWorld View of Global Warming “The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth,” warns Pope Francis....
June 19, 2015
June 18, 2015 By Susan Bence Milwaukee Public Radio Among faith groups, a ground swell of environmental concern has been building. This includes within the Muslim community,...
June 19, 2015
June 18, 2015By Sam MickeyBecoming Integral The new encyclical by Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On the Care of our Common Home, contains many references to “integral...
June 19, 2015
June 19, 2015 By Jacob J. Erickson Religion Dispatches In a brief article in an unassuming 1967 edition of Science, a medieval historian from the University of California...
June 19, 2015
June 19, 2015By Douglas Todd The Vancouver Sun Those who claim Pope Francis should keep quiet about the disastrous consequences of climate change are, in effect, trying to...
June 19, 2015
June 19, 2015By Dave PruettHuffington Post “We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are between stories.” – Father Thomas Berry I’m not...
June 19, 2015
Interviewee: Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, co-directors, The Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University Interviewer: Robert McMahon, Editor Council on Foreign...
June 19, 2015
June 19, 2015By Llewellyn Vaughan-LeeHuffington Post The Earth “now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her.” So begins Pope Francis in his powerful and...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015 By John SchwartzNew York Times The word “divestment” is nowhere to be found in the nearly 200 pages of the papal encyclical released Thursday, but...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015Editorial The Guardian The pope links the destruction of the environment with the exploitation of the poor. The world should pay attention Pope Francis’s...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015By Jim Yardley and Laurie GoodsteinNew York Times VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Thursday called for a radical transformation of politics, economics and...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015Evangelical Lutheran Church in America CHICAGO (ELCA) – The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA...
June 18, 2015
June 17, 2015By Kieran CookeClimate News Network Hard-hitting message from the Vatican warns of the threat global warming poses to the world’s ecosystems − and to...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015By Gabe Elsner, Executive Director, Energy and Policy InstituteHuffington Post Today, Pope Francis officially released his encyclical, “Laudato Si (“Be...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015By Christiana Z. PeppardWashington Post How does one read an encyclical? Even as an expert on Catholic social teaching, the answer to that question still eludes...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015Vatican Radio (Vatican Radio) The presentation of the Encyclical Letter of Pope Francis Laudato Si’ included a presentation by Metropolitan John (Zizioulas...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015 Anglican Communion News Service [Office of the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town] People of faith need to focus on the moral and spiritual elements of the crisis...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015By Bill McKibbenThe New York Review of Books The old conceit that the president has a “bully pulpit” needs updating; it’s clear that the pulpit...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015By James Martin, S.J.America Magazine Pope Francis’ revolutionary new encyclical calls for a “broad cultural revolution” to confront the...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015By Peter H. Gleick, President, Pacific InstituteHuffington Post The official text of the much-anticipated Vatican’s Encyclical Letter, “Laudato Si’...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015Independent Catholic News Operation Noah has welcomed Pope Francis’ ‘bold stance on climate change ahead of the critical COP21 UN climate negotiations this...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015  By Matthew BellPRI’s The World The head of the Roman Catholic Church released an official document in Rome on Thursday that has been creating buzz...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015Church of England The Church of England’s lead on the environment, Bishop of Salisbury the Rt Revd Nicholas Holtam, has given a wholehearted welcome to...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015 By Thomas Reese   National Catholic Reporter Some of the most frequently asked questions I have gotten from journalists this week: Why does the...
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015By Leonardo Boff, theologist and ecologistEarth Charter International Before making any comment it is worth highlighting some peculiarities of the Laudato Si’...
June 17, 2015
June 16, 2015By Sylvia Poggioli NPR In April this year, on Earth Day, Pope Francis urged everyone to see the world through the eyes of God, as a garden to cultivate. “May the...
June 17, 2015
Full title: Pope Francis is actually bringing America’s environmentalism movement to its religious and moral rootsJune 17, 2015By Mark StollWashington Post Pope Francis...
June 17, 2015
June 17, 2015By Kelsey DallasDesert News National In a highly anticipated encyclical on the environment, Pope Francis this week condemned widespread disengagement with the...
June 17, 2015
June 16, 2015Archbishop of Canterbury Archbishop Justin Welby and other faith leaders pledge to fast and pray for success of UN climate summit in Paris. The Archbishop of...
June 17, 2015
By George Handley Home WatersJune 2015http://www.patheos.com/blogs/homewaters/ Part 1June 8, 2015http://www.patheos.com/blogs/homewaters/2015/06/theology-ecology-and-the-...
June 15, 2015
Vatican condemns early release of document in which pontiff calls on people to change their lifestyles and energy consumption or face grave consequences By Stephanie...
June 15, 2015
June 15, 2015Indian Country Today Media Network On June 19, The Morning Star Institute, a national Native rights organization, will hold a respectful observance to honor...
June 13, 2015
June 12, 2015Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) When the much anticipated environmental encyclical will be launched on 18 June, John Schellnhuber, director...
June 12, 2015
June 12, 2015Episcopal News Service [Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs press release] Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has joined with...
June 11, 2015
June 10, 2015Religion News Service PHILADELPHIA – More than 300 rabbis — inspired by the climate crisis, the Torah’s call for a Sabbatical Year of...
June 10, 2015
June 9, 2015By Sharon Abercrombie  Eco Catholic National Catholic Reporter When graduating seniors at Santa Clara University, in Santa Clara, Calif., bid farewell June...
June 10, 2015
Just in time for the Pope’s eco-encyclical, moral theologians offer guidance on ethical energy production and use By Bill PatenaudeCatholic EcologyJune 10, 2015 A...
June 10, 2015
The University of Notre Dame has just established a new Center for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing, directed by Professor Celia Deane-Drummond. Following receipt of a...
June 9, 2015
June 8, 2015By Barbara Fraser, Catholic News Service National Catholic Reporter Lima, Peru – Pope Francis’ upcoming encyclical on ecology and climate is expected to...
June 9, 2015
Promotes Faith Advocacy to Protect Oceans through Free On-line Resources   Washington D.C., June 8, 2015 — In support of World Oceans Day, INTERFAITH OCEANS...
June 8, 2015
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...
June 6, 2015
June 5, 2015By Kamran MofidGlobalisation for the Common Good Initiative (GCGI) (This article is dedicated to the children of the world, the torch bearers of the next...
June 5, 2015
June 5, 2015By Terri MacKenzieEcospirituality Resources WHEN: The Pope’s highly anticipated first encyclical is expected to be published June 18th, 2015. TITLE: The...
June 4, 2015
June 3, 2015 By Mitchell C. Hescox  Eco Catholic National Catholic Reporter Pope Francis’ increasingly powerful statements on global warming highlight that climate...
June 3, 2015
“Cultivating and Caring for Creation” 12 new on-line videos and study guides in anticipation of Pope Francis’ coming encyclical, “Praised Be,”...
June 3, 2015
June 2015 Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=887c3de8b0&id=ad971c16e9&e=a758405790