Pope Francis says climate change deniers should “ask the scientists” and suggests the repeal of DACA is “not pro-life.” Plus, he explains his black eye, More: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/09/11/pope-francis-says-daca-repeal-not-pro-life-and-refutes-climate-change
Climate Change
Posted inAmerica en Espanol, Español
Oración en caso de huracán
Dios Creador, te pedimos que calmes el viento y las olas del huracán que se aproxima, y que protejas de todo daño a los que se encuentran en su paso.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
When we lose endangered species, we lose God’s creation
With the E.P.A. under threat, Catholics should remember our responsibility to protect all of the earth’s most vulnerable inhabitants.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Game of Thrones has a serious point to make about Hurricane Harvey and climate change
Climate change is the real battle before us, a battle quite possibly against extinction. It sounds ridiculously fantastic to put it like that; if only we had dragons and a Night King to help us believe.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Netflix’s “Chasing Coral” documents an unseen environmental disaster
A team of scientists set out to film the transition of coral from a brilliantly colored living organism to a decaying corpse.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Al Gore’s Sequel: The climate change movie no one wanted to have to make
The people behind “An Inconvenient Truth” can be forgiven for indulging in a bit of “I told you so” in their follow-up film, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Summertime blues? A season that’s hard on the earth
Most Americans say they have changed their behavior to help protect the environment—whether because they are heeding the warnings of Pope Francis in his encyclical “Laudato Si’” or are alarmed by stories of severe weather and rising sea levels. But summer may bring the biggest test of good intentions. A warming planet means more demand […]
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis encourages Chancellor Merkel to continue the fight against climate change
This was the pope and chancellor’s sixth meeting.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Video
“A Slap in the Face”: Cardinal John Ribat’s strong words on climate change
Archbishop John Ribat met with Fr. James Martin, SJ in front of Trump Tower to discuss climate change.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
As sea waters rise, Miami begins elevated development
Rising seas due to global warming have rendered the coastal high-water marks more obsolete by the day. That is especially true in the Miami area, which every media report on sea-level rise seems to profile as ground zero for deluge doom.