Supreme Court stay, vacancy raise questions about Clean Power Plan's future
Eco Catholic: Advocates argue the high court's decision to delay President Obama's signature climate policy doesn't indicate a possible ruling on its legality.
Eco Catholic
After the ashes and into Lent
What’s ecological about Lent? Ecological, to me, is the great hope that culture is permanent and that nature will evolve and endure.
Sometimes we call this hope permaculture -- and call ourselves perma-culturists. We imagine a whole even though everything feels partial. We imagine interconnections even though we feel apart or set apart or disconnected. Isn’t it funny that people used to call a new hairdo for a woman a “permanent”?
Preview: Out in the tomato fields: Putting myself in the shoes of farmworkers
Did you know that the yellow flowers produced by tomato plants eventually develop into tomatoes? I recently learned this and more important things when I visited one of the many tomato farms here in Immokalee. It was such a great opportunity for me to experience what a typical day of a farmworker is like.
(For privacy reasons, I am not using the name of the farm I visited.)
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Poet Wendell Berry bequeaths farming legacy to small Catholic college
Eco Catholic: The award-winning poet, fiction writer and essayist is teaming up with the Dominican Sisters of Peace to pass on his family's farming legacy to a new generation.
In February prayer video, Pope Francis pleads for creation care, 'a new way of living'
Eco Catholic: "What is happening in the world we live in?" Francis asks in the video, the new medium for monthly prayer intentions.
US Catholics allergic to reality of environmental racism, theologian says at St. John's University
Eco Catholic: Fr. Bryan Massingale of Marquette University added the recent Flint water crisis would not have been allowed to happen in a more affluent area.
Preview: Sisters band together on billboard campaign to bring pope's environmental message to Iowa caucus
As the eyes of the nation focus on the Iowa caucuses, the campaign seeks to promote environmental issues through Laudato Si'.
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EPA recruits faith groups to help end food waste
Eco Catholic: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency earlier this month launched its Food Steward's Pledge, a campaign aimed to reduce food waste and hunger.
Dan Turner, mystic activist from the prairie to the streets, dies at 81
Eco Catholic: The former Dominican priest’s life was an ongoing quest for environmental and social justice on behalf of the earth, the poor, youth and the LBGT community.
Unthinking the way we think about saving the earth
Eco Catholic: If saving the earth means saving the natural evolutionary cycling of change without excessive human intervention, count me in.
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In This Issue
September 9-22, 2016
- Editorial: Make action on poverty a national priority
- Music provides a deeper sense of promise
- SNAP concerned with survivor confidentiality after judge's sanctions
- Special Section (subscribers only): Health & Well-Being