Despite growing recognition of climate change as a legitimate and looming threat, current commitments to mitigate its effects and alter human behavior fall short of those needed to resolve the crisis in time, Pope Francis said.
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Pope Francis says success in protecting ozone layer offers lessons for the future
The pope’s message was addressed to those attending a meeting of state parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
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Mount St. Mary’s students and sisters among thousands threatened by California wildfires
The convent lost power and generators were put into place as backup. A fire department captain told local media that the sisters, some of whom were on oxygen, were scared but in good spirits. “We joked with them a little bit…. They are a great bunch of ladies.”
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Regional church networks work to tackle climate change problems
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Deforestation, land grabbing and climate change — life-and-death issues raised at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon — also are wreaking havoc in Central America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific islands. One likely outcome of the synod is a more coordinated pastoral response to those issues by church workers in […]
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Caritas Kitui in Kenya provides energy-saving cookstoves
The Catholic Church in Kenya is promoting a variety of energy-saving stoves with a view to stopping forest destruction and climate change.
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The climate strike was just the beginning for Gen Z. Here’s what comes next for us.
In November we will strike again, and on Earth Day we will strike in even greater numbers than before.
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We need faith, ethics, science and economics to save the planet
As the crisis of climate change attains more urgency, many more people—especially the young—are coming to protest how humans are treating the planet to the detriment of all the living.
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Who is going to the Amazon synod?
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Gerry and I take a look at who has been invited to the synod on the Amazon region.
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Greta Thunberg and the trouble with changing the world
The phrase always seems to come at the end of a sentence—change the world, period. Change the world how?
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Pope Francis implores global community to do more on climate change
The pope said that the nations of the world have a duty to fight against climate change, adding that despite a weak response so far, a “window of opportunity is still open.”