Laudato Si’
In Advent, we hope and wait. Climate change doesn’t lend itself to either.
By Thomas Reese — November 28, 2022
(RNS) — Advent is supposed to be a time of anticipation and hope, but the threat of global warming brings me anxiety and fear.
Survey: Catholics, Hispanics, young people most likely to voice climate concerns
By Alejandra Molina — October 5, 2022
(RNS) — Additionally, American Catholics were found to be five times more likely to express that climate change is a shared responsibility than their non-Catholic counterparts.
A new film by Emmy-winning director centers on Pope’s vision for environment
By Claire Giangravé — October 4, 2022
(RNS) — Available for free on YouTube, ‘The Letter’ traces a pathway of dialogue amid the climate crisis.
Pope Francis, Vatican call for international cooperation for the environment
By Claire Giangravé — July 21, 2022
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A top Vatican official backed Francis’ video address by saying ‘production of fossil fuels must be urgently phased out.’
Brazil’s Catholic bishops raise their voices against mining on Indigenous land
By Eduardo Campos Lima — May 16, 2022
SAO PAULO (RNS) — The damage from mining projects goes beyond deforestation, the bishops say. The effects include death from disease and higher rates of murder and sexual assault.
We told Pope Francis nonviolent action may be needed to stop climate change
By Emily E. Burke and Henry Glynn — March 3, 2022
(RNS) — Our generation is frustrated with U.S. Catholic and civic leaders who do not seem to grasp the gravity of our crisis and are unwilling to enact church teaching.
Study: Most US Catholic bishops kept silent on Francis’ climate change push
By Daniel R. DiLeo, Sabrina Danielsen, and Emily E. Burke — October 19, 2021
(RNS) — Conservatism appears to have influenced bishops’ treatment of climate change.
Pope Francis encourages young climate activists to build dialogue
By Claire Giangravé — September 29, 2021
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis supported youth activists in protecting the environment but encouraged them to build dialogue and relationship.
The climate apocalypse is real, and it is coming
By Thomas Reese — August 10, 2021
(RNS) — Concern for the environment can no longer be an optional or secondary aspect of Christianity. It must be central to who we are as Christians.
COVID-19, global warming and diminishing Catholic guilt
By Thomas Reese — August 4, 2021
(RNS) — Would that the pope could declare vaccine skeptics and climate-change deniers heretics and put their books, articles, Facebook pages and tweets on the Index of Forbidden Books.
Major Catholic newspaper divests from fossil fuels
By Renée Roden — July 2, 2021
(RNS) — National Catholic Reporter appears to be in the vanguard of publishing companies making a public commitment to divest from fossil fuels.
Solar panels allow religious institutions to do well while doing good
By Thomas Reese — May 21, 2021
(RNS) — An easy way to please the pope and earn money at the same time.
At Vatican, Kerry appeals to pope’s ‘moral authority’ to combat climate change
By Claire Giangravé — May 17, 2021
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — President Joe Biden's special envoy for climate issues praised the pontiff for his leadership and advocacy for the environment, noting Francis has ‘been ahead of the curve’ when it comes to pressing the importance of caring for creation.
Seeing Pope Francis in the Argentine priest made a cardinal 20 years ago
By Charles C. Camosy — February 26, 2021
(RNS) — The ideas Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio carried with him to Rome have become the pillars of his papacy.
Pope, in second TED talk, sides with science on climate change: ‘We have few years’
By Claire Giangravé — October 12, 2020
VATICAN (RNS) — In his talk, Francis continued a recent focus on economic and political systems as the driver of climate change and other ills facing humankind.
