The pope’s attention to migration and climate change were well known, but the pope was also attentive to a number of other global issues and challenges like nuclear disarmament, tax justice, development, and the rise of autonomous (A.I.) weapons systems.
Climate Change
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An atheist walks into a Catholic convent: Charlotte Wood on her novel ‘Stone Yard Devotional’
Wood’s earlier novels contain explicit social critiques, but ‘Stone Yard Devotional’ does its intellectual heavy lifting at an arm’s-length distance. “I wanted to write a book that doesn’t teach or explain or condescend,” she told America in an interview over Zoom in February.
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Peace is necessary for climate solutions. That’s why U.S.-China tensions should worry us.
Peace among nations is a necessary precondition for any solution to the climate change crisis. Instead, we have a renewed arms race and a mad dash for exhaustible natural resources.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Strong climate commitments from the U.S. at COP29 may mean little in a second Trump administration
Looming on the geopolitical horizon this week is a significant threat to the multinational campaign on climate change that emerged far from Baku, when Donald Trump became president-elect of the United States.
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Climate change is not only an environmental crisis. It also threatens families and traditional values.
We have recently seen entire communities wiped off the map by wildfires fueled by ever-hotter weather. This has grave implications for tradition, family and other goods that social conservatives value.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Reporting from Hurricane Helene’s ground zero: No ‘safe havens’
Helene’s devastation is offering a hard lesson: No community or U.S. region can consider itself safe from the extreme weather events that global warming is seeding and supercharging.
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‘Once the flood waters recede, Catholic Charities will still be there’: Rebuilding after Hurricane Helene
Chief Correspondent Kevin Clarke joined a team from Catholic Charities USA assessing needs in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Heat will drive the next wave of migrants. Pope Francis thinks it’s a grave sin to ignore their plight.
Migration has been a defining reality of the human experience; that is not going to change because of 19th-century innovations like national borders.
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Earth Day 2024: It’s time for the Catholic Church to give up fossil fuels for good
Pope Francis says that responses to climate change “have not been adequate.” This Earth Day, both clergy and laypeople must repent of our sins of omission and work toward decarbonization.
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Survey: U.S. Catholics worry about climate change—but don’t rank it as a top issue
Almost four out of five U.S. Catholics said they “have a moral responsibility” to combat climate change. But there are strong differences between Democrats and Republicans on environmental issues.