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The Church of St. Therese in Chesapeake, Va., seen April 21, 2020, is one four churches in the Diocese of Richmond that had solar panels installed in 2020. (CNS/Catholic Virginian/Vy Barto)

Inflation Reduction Act clause makes it easier for churches to go green

A provision in the Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law this summer by President Joe Biden, increases the size of the tax credit for conversions to renewable energy and makes nonprofit entities, like parishes, eligible to receive the tax benefits themselves.

An aerial view of Immaculata High School campus in Sommerville, N.J., showing the solar panels on the school is seen in this 2022 photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Immaculata High School)
Faith

New Jersey diocese turns to renewable energy in response to encyclical

By Tara Smith, Catholic News Service
Francis, the comic strip

Francis, the comic strip

By Pat Marrin
Cindy Thompson adjusts a sign at the Mercy Ecospirituality Center in Benson, Vermont. She and her husband, Chris Thompson, spent six weeks in a Sisters of Mercy program. (Marybeth Redmond)
Justice

Mercy volunteers learn to live gently with creation in Vermont

By Marybeth Christie Redmond

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DC's Catholic U solar project supports Vatican global sustainability initiative

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Solar panels allow religious institutions to do well while doing good

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A 300-kilowatt solar energy project went into commercial operation Dec. 25 on the campus of the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois. (UMSL/Mundelein Seminary)
Justice

Cross-shaped solar array lights up Mundelein Seminary for New Year

The Christmas star shining over the campus of the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary this season was the sun, as a 300-kilowatt solar energy project went into commercial operation Dec. 25.

ByBarbara Fraser

Looking back at 2020 in the life of the church in the US

Distinctly Catholic: 2020 began with the U.S. bishops' ad limina visits offering the chance for frank conversations with Pope Francis, but by year's end, opposition to him in the U.S. church was as strong as ever.

ByMichael Sean Winters
Justice

Five years ago, Pope Francis asked us to care for Earth. Have we listened?

Catholics across the world have embraced and acted on environmental encyclical Laudato Si'. But the consensus among Catholic ecological leaders is those responses have been not nearly as widespread as Francis sought.

ByBrian Roewe
Sr. Helen Kearney, center, president of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood, New York, and St. Joseph Sr. Mary Doyle, right, participate in the Global Climate Strike in New York City Sept. 20, 2019. (CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Faith

Women religious model the Christian ecological vocation

Commentary: From the first Earth Day in 1970 to the new millennium, Catholic sisters have creatively focused their mission on the ecological justice issues they've encountered in their ministries to God's people.

ByDawn Nothwehr
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