Jesse Remedios

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Curated by Rev. Yolanda Norton, the latest "Beyoncé Mass" had the Kennedy Center in Washington rocking with a combination of womanist worship of God using beloved pop music as a catalyst.

Burning Question: How does coronavirus connect to climate change?

Participating in a "Lobby Night" March 2, the members of Maryland Catholics for Our Common Home were at the state Capitol to advocate for five key bills they believe address climate change and equity.

Burning Question: What and where do I start to help save our planet?

Burning Question: What is the relationship between the military and environmental damage?

While praising the work of the House of Representatives in 2019, Network denounced the Senate for refusing to take up a single vote on what the Catholic lobby group sees as critical social justice legislation.

"Where certain species are destroyed or seriously harmed, the values involved are incalculable." The devastation in Australia comes at a time when rates of species extinction are accelerating worldwide.

Catholic Climate Covenant is organizing what they are calling the "U.S. Catholic Climate Project," a yearlong intergenerational Catholic initiative to gather Catholics from across the church to make "the moral call for climate action."

Burning Questions: Here comes the sun. EarthBeat tracked down the resources your parish needs to understand the process of going solar.

Burning Questions: What are parishes doing to eliminate their use of single-use plastics and reduce waste? 

Across the country, priests and parishioners alike have been considering how disturbing current events like U.S.-Iran tensions or a string of anti-Semitic attacks should or shouldn't be addressed in homilies.

For a range of Catholic ethicists, peace advocates and veterans, the Afghanistan Papers' revelations of government deceit were as indicative of a problem in our culture as it was of a failed war strategy.

Listen: In this third and final episode, we hear the Plowshares activists explain why trial and sacrifice have always been essential to their movement. For one activist, sacrifice included spending her 79th birthday in a jail cell.

An interfaith coalition, including Rep. Joaquin Castro, held a Dec. 9 candlelight vigil outside the national headquarters for U.S Customs and Border Protection to draw attention to immigration enforcement policies that they say have led to chlidren's deaths.

In a Nov. 25 statement, Roman Catholic Women Bishops criticized the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for citing abortion as the "preeminent priority" for Catholic citizens to consider heading into the 2020 election.

Listen: The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 felt called by the Holy Spirit to break onto the naval submarine base. They were also inspired by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his talk of three evils: racism, extreme materialism and militarism.

Those close to the organization Student Sponsor Partners say its high success rate points to both the power of effective mentorship and the continued relevancy of Catholic education.

Listen: Four activists of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 explain why they broke into a U.S. nuclear weapons facility, and what it felt like.

As the court heard arguments on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Catholic organizers held a rosary walk before joining thousands supporting the program that protects some 700,000 immigrants.