ecology
New York Catholic Workers bring new growth with rooftop garden
By Fiona Murphy — April 9, 2024
(RNS) — Inspired by Pope Francis’ apostolic letter on ecology, a garden planned for the roof of the movement’s historic Maryhouse has attracted new attention to Dorothy Day’s Catholic service organization.
Once protected by its remoteness, a sacred lake in Kyrgyzstan is threatened by change
By Diana Kruzman — January 5, 2024
(RNS) — On the shores of Issyk Kul are more than 130 sacred sites, including trees, mountain peaks, hot springs and tombs of important figures. But the region itself, says one local expert, represents the sacred unity of nature and humanity.
Did Pope Francis just add to the church’s teaching on animals?
By Charles C. Camosy — October 12, 2023
(RNS) — The short answer: His 'Laudate Deum' gives us more hope, even if it lacks specifics.
Lent’s over, but Catholics still need to pay attention to the meat they eat
By Charles C. Camosy — April 26, 2023
(RNS) — A Catholic view of integral ecology, cheap meat and child labor.
‘Animism’ recognizes how animals, places and plants have power over humans – and it’s finding renewed interest around the world
By Justine Buck Quijada — October 17, 2022
(The Conversation) — Animism describes religions in which humans are connected to the landscape around them but do not dominate it.
‘God is life,’ Rabbi Yonatan Neril on ecological conversion and the war in Ukraine
By Marika Proctor — August 19, 2022
(RNS) — Rabbi Yonatan Neril is the founder and executive director of the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development — a Jerusalem-based nonprofit engaged in revealing the connection between religion and ecology worldwide.
Why the world has a lot to learn about conservation – and trust – from Indigenous societies
By John Ziker — May 13, 2022
(The Conversation) — Traditional ecological knowledge, or TEK, can encompass science, medicine, ecology, religion and culture – and help protect the environment.
Scuba diving rabbi adopts the ocean as his part of the world to repair
By Christine Luby — April 20, 2021
(RNS) — Scubi Jew, a marine conservation group inspired by the Jewish concept of repairing the world, turns saving the oceans into a religious experience.
Bishops worry divisions on ‘details’ at synod distract from big picture
By Claire Giangravé — October 16, 2019
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The specific challenges faced by Amazonia's indigenous people are already being sidelined by conversations about married priests.
If God created the whole world, why is treating plants as holy so crazy?
By Benjamin Perry — October 2, 2019
(RNS) — The furor over #PlantGate may help explain why it’s so difficult to make progress in responding to climate change.
Faith activists urge UN Environment Assembly to address human side of climate change
By Fredrick Nzwili — March 18, 2019
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Meeting at the fourth U.N. Environment Assembly, faith-based environmental activists said not enough was being done to address the social justice component of climate change.
Religious roots of trees branch into many faiths
By Lisa Schencker — July 27, 2012
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) Whether believers realize it or not, the trees near their houses of worship have religious roots. By Lisa Schencker.
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