Charles C. Camosy

Charles C. Camosy is associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University and a frequent contributor to Religion News Service.

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Hens in a metal cage at an egg farm. (Unsplash/Jo-Anne McArthur)

Dec 05, 2023

William Wilberforce would be scandalized by the pro-factory farming EATS Act

Christians who share the vision of Pope Francis and William Wilberforce should oppose the EATS Act as a diabolical end-run around laws that attempt to respect God's created order.

A priest blesses a dog outside a church during a prayer service for blessing of the animals in Rio de Janeiro Oct. 4, 2023, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron of animals. (OSV News photo/Pilar Olivares, Reuters)

Oct 12, 2023

Did Pope Francis just add to the church's teaching on animals?

Laudate Deum is a move in the right direction. But we aren't there yet. Catholic concern for nonhuman animals, in our technocratic times, still has a long way to go.

May 06, 2021

God's plan for animals is a hot topic in theology that we can all understand

Commentary: Over the past decade in Christian theological circles, there's been an explosion of concern for nonhuman animals. Leading voices in animal ethics today — religious and secular — reject the idea that nonhuman animals are mere tools.

May 12, 2020

Nonhuman animals and the COVID-19 pandemic

It should come as no surprise to Pope Francis, the author of the encyclical "Laudato Si'," that at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic we find a relationship between human beings and the rest of God's creation that has gone terribly wrong.