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COP24: It's not about resources anymore; it's about moral maturity
… on an entire series of very present dangers: fire, flood, the loss of life-sustaining biodiversity, large-scale famine, immigration overflow, poverty and joblessness, for instance. …
Caring for the fragility of swamps and good government
… responsible for a "high number of ecosystem services, in addition to maintaining biodiversity." She highlights a long list of benefits that swamps provide, including but not …
NCR Podcast: Eating animals and climate change
… contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and a leading cause of deforestation, pollution and biodiversity loss, it's time to emulate them. Last month, six bishops representing episcopal …
Act like a saint, become a vegetarian
… emissions after fossil fuels and a leading cause of deforestation, water and air pollution and biodiversity loss. … To accommodate the 70 billion animals raised annually for human consumption, …
On Election Day, let us renew our care for creation, common good
… Amazon has disappeared in just 50 years. Tropical rainforests like the Amazon are "cradles of biodiversity." While rainforest cover only 6 percent of the earth, they are home to over half of the earth's biodiversity. The Amazon is considered one of the "lungs of the planet," yet deforestation and …
Pope's quotes: Renew the dialogue
… of 'debris, desolation and filth.' We must not be indifferent or resigned to the loss of biodiversity and the destruction of ecosystems, often caused by our irresponsible and selfish …
Ireland's bishops pledge to divest from fossil fuels
… Francis' environmental encyclical. A garden at St. Damian's Monastery in Dublin offered daily biodiversity talks. An "Our Common Home" tent offered daily workshops for teens and the main …
Irish pastoral worker tweets Laudato Si' to Trump, line by line
… that you can literally meditate on some passages." For her, the sections in Chapter 1 on biodiversity and Chapter 4's examination of integral ecology stood out and "really helped to …
Vatican asks for 'new ways' for access to Communion in Amazon region
… region by human activity and an "extractivist mentality." "The Amazon is a region with rich biodiversity," the document states. "It is multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, and multi-religious; it …
'Catholics Are Still In' campaign recommits support for Paris climate pact
… Paris Agreement." "By polluting the oceans, not mitigating CO2 emissions and destroying our biodiversity, we are killing our planet. Let us face it: There is no Planet B," he said. "On this …
Church teaching leads Catholic entities to divest from fossil fuels
… Belgium; Tertiary Sisters of St. Francis and Ursulines of the Chatman Union in Canada; China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation; Caritas France; Sisters of St. Joseph …
Pope joins meeting to prepare synod for the Amazon
… negatively impacting the indigenous populations in the area and leading to a loss of biodiversity. Jesuit Fr. Fernando Roca Alcazar, one of five experts chosen by the Pan-Amazonian … their own lands as they are at present," Pope Francis said. "Amazonia is not only a reserve of biodiversity, but also a cultural reserve that must be preserved in the face of the new forms of …
Pope chooses 2019 Synod of Bishops on Amazon theme, appoints council
… for its inhabitants," he said when meeting indigenous people in Peru in January 2018. Rich in biodiversity, natural resources and cultures, the Amazon rainforest is the largest in the world, …
As Cape Town's water crisis nears 'Day Zero,' faith groups spring into action
… Lenten season with messages and prayers around water's sacredness, scarcity, sanitation, biodiversity and sustainability. "We have stopped major crises in the history of our country, and …
Loyola's free e-textbook brings environmental ethics to classes worldwide
… 30 universities, attempts to do just that. The e-textbook runs six chapters — introduction, biodiversity, natural resources, energy, water, global climate change — with each written by an …
Francis calls attention to increasing gang violence in northern Peru
… the pontiff criticized the ramp-up of the global extraction industry in the world's most biodiverse region and decried Peruvian national policies that he said "strangle" its some 350 …
Francis tells Peruvian president to fight 'social virus' of corruption
… the pontiff criticized the ramp-up of the global extraction industry in the world's most biodiverse region and decried Peruvian national policies that he said "strangle" its some 350 …
From the Amazon, Francis decries policies that 'strangle' indigenous
… Jan. 19 to criticize the ramp-up of the global extraction industry in the world's most biodiverse region and decry local policies that he said "strangle" its some 350 native tribes. …
Pope to hear from indigenous about ministry, land rights in Chile, Peru
… Maldonado, in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon, Jan. 19. Home to some of the world's most biodiverse parks, that area has been devastated by a gold rush that has left large expanses of …
Pope wants church to be voice of poor in Amazon, bishop says
… negatively impacting the indigenous populations in the area and leading to a loss of biodiversity. Krieger was one of several Latin American bishops attending a Dec. 12 conference in … a gift from God. It is not only great in its territorial size but also great in its beauty and biodiversity. And this gift was given to his sons and daughters who live here in our common …