Claire Schaeffer-Duffy

A year after its release, the pastoral letter on nuclear disarmament by Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester needs to be implemented in parishes and dioceses, says Claire Schaeffer-Duffy.

The St. Kateri Conservation Center is part of the movement to mitigate climate change and biodiversity collapse by enlisting gardeners, farmers, homeowners or any land managers in the work of ecological restoration.

Commentary: At the Mississippi headwaters in June, I joined hundreds who have been fighting to stop construction of the Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline. Indigenous women are at the forefront of this struggle to protect the water from potential oil spills.

Jessica Reznicek says concern, even desperation, over the threat DAPL posed to Iowa's waterways, motivated her efforts to sabotage the pipeline.

It was God "that put this fight in me," says Sharon Lavigne, a Black Catholic who has received the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize, recognizing her battle to keep plastics factories out of her Louisiana neighborhood.

Formosa Plastic Group's plan to build a manufacturing complex in St. James Parish has suffered setbacks after permits were put on hold, pending reevaluation of impacts on wetlands and Black-majority neighborhoods.

Two years ago, Sharon Lavigne founded the faith-based group Rise St. James, putting her at the forefront of a campaign to thwart construction of the Formosa Plastics complex in St. James Parish, Louisiana.

Book review: Art Laffin's newly revised The Risk of the Cross finds in the Gospel of Mark a vitalizing and nonviolent theology that is chillingly relevant on this 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Pietro Ameglio Patella thinks the phrase "drug war" does not accurately describe the conflict in Mexico. "What really is happening in Mexico is a trans-national, inter-capitalist war for the monopoly over an illegal commodity and other crimes," he said.

Enemy Within: For many in Kansas City, the acquisition of the Bannister Federal Complex by a private developer represented an innovative effort to redeem a dangerous brownfield. But sick workers wondered if the site could ever really be cleaned as more revelations surfaced about the plant's toxic legacy.

Enemy Within: If the Kansas City Plant was not a "dirty" site, then why were its workers getting sick and dying prematurely? Government summaries of the manufacturing history reveal the Kansas City Plant worked with an array of radioactive materials over several decades. "The problem is the [plant] workers were not told, and they were not adequately protected," said David M. Manuta, a consultant with expertise in chemical industrial processes and radioactive material. "Kansas City was considered non-nuclear. And yet we know otherwise."

Enemy Within: During the decades of the Cold War, the Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies employed hundreds of thousands of Americans in more than 350 secretive, hazardous worksites across the country. Employees were not always safe or cared for.

Crowded living conditions, poverty and months of waiting in uncertainty are the lot of caravan migrants who are stuck in Tijuana, Mexico, and seeking asylum in the U.S. Despite the hardships, a number of couples are celebrating love at the border. 

United in safety: Working with Harvard public health researchers, the Utah Sports Shooting Council, the state's most powerful pro-gun group, advocated to include suicide prevention training in Utah's required one-day course for people seeking a conceal-and-carry permit. This unusual collaboration marks a growing trend.