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A Climate-Conscious Lent: Healthy food for people and the planet
… few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction. (Laudato Si', 204) [There] is a minority [that] believes it has the right to consume in a way which can …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Record numbers of species face extinction
… glory to God by their very existence, nor convey their message to us. We have no such right. ( Laudato Si' , 33) You visit the earth and cause it to overflow; You greatly enrich it; The stream of God …
Pope Francis is the guardian angel of the faithful's ambivalence
… and passion enabled him to write a sophisticated clarion call to the climate crisis, " Laudato Si' , on Care for our Common Home." How could an informed, astute mind such as his not at …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Turning down the heat in cities
… but also as a result of urban chaos, poor transportation, and visual pollution and noise. ( Laudato Si' , 44) More precious still is the service we offer to another kind of beauty: people's quality …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: World's freshwater supplies are shrinking
… to human survival and, as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights. ( Laudato Si' , 30) Water supplies used to be relatively constant, but now in many places demand exceeds …
EarthBeat Weekly: Three women leading in defense of the environment
… dialogue, Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich said the adoption of Pope Francis' encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home" has been hindered in part because some Catholics and other …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Rising sea levels threaten millions
… dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity. ( Laudato Si' , 23) The majority of people living on our planet profess to be believers. This should spur …
Cupich: Libertarian ideology hinders Laudato Si' adoption in the church
… people from delving into the message of Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical on the environment, " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home." "The command in Genesis to go and make fruitful and multiply …
Why a Catholic journalist is urging the church to engage Black Lives Matter
… papal documents and bishops statements on issues like racism. In her book, she underscores " Laudato si'," the second encyclical of Pope Francis, where he highlighted the risk of "rampant …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Coral reefs are dying
… deforestation, agricultural monocultures, industrial waste and destructive fishing methods. ( Laudato Si' , 41) Care for nature is part of a lifestyle which includes the capacity for living together …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Arctic ice and permafrost
… is affected by uncontrolled fishing, leading to a drastic depletion of certain species. ( Laudato Si' , 40) Christians cannot be indifferent to global warming, pollution, natural resource …
EarthBeat Weekly: Lessons for Catholics from life of Hazel Johnson, 'mother of environmental justice'
… an archdiocesan council or project. She wasn't dropping lines from Scripture (and there was no Laudato Si' ) or weaving theological citations into her powerful testimonies for why her neighborhood …
Catholic Climate Covenant launches youth mobilization initiative
… and bishops to call for greater involvement of the U.S. church to act on Francis' encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home." "We believe that your voices in particular are instrumental," …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Global warming in 3 grim numbers
… have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years ( Laudato Si' , 53). We see how environmental deterioration and human and ethical degradation are closely …
Hazel Johnson, the mother of environmental justice, was Catholic
… helped form her sense of justice. Twenty years before Pope Francis released his encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home," Johnson was using similar language to describe the …
Adorers sisters seek damages in latest lawsuit over gas pipeline
… harm the earth in their use of the land. Ten years later, Pope Francis issued his encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home," in which he stated it is an essential part of the Christian …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: No drilling in the Arctic
… also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas — needs to be progressively replaced without delay (" Laudato Si' , On Care for Our Common Home ," 165). We need proposals that "limit exploration and …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Exxon-funded climate doubt
… on the intensive use of fossil fuels, which is at the heart of the worldwide energy system. (" Laudato Si' , On Care for Our Common Home," 23) Pope Francis states that this contamination is a form of …
EarthBeat Weekly: Pandemic, storms call us to make peace with the planet
… second in a series of interfaith dialogues that grew out of a new guidebook on implementing Laudato Si' . The retreat, titled "Deepening our Awareness of Love, Compassion and Joy for the Healing of …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Hothouse Earth
… implications: environmental, social, economic, political and for the distribution of goods ( Laudato Si' , 25). There is but one creator. As travelers on this globe together, we are dependent upon …