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Climate Change
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
President Trump’s Scorched Earth Day
The U-turn on environmental policies comes as evidence mounts that climate change has already caused significant damage, from killing large sections of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to causing severe drought in Africa.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Why is climate change a moral issue?
From 2017: Policies that fail to protect our planet are not only against Catholic teaching but are also immoral.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Video
Three reasons why caring for the environment is a moral issue
Here’s what Pope Francis and Catholic social teaching have to say about climate change.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
How can the church help the victims of climate displacement?
Climate change is already affecting vulnerable populations across the world, in places that are the least able to adapt.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Getting ready for Trump: Catholic leaders condemn the ‘imperialism’ of free markets
Working for a just wage remains a human and moral imperative, Cardinal Seán O’Malley said.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Donald Trump has some choice words for a wind farm that spoils his view in Scotland
President-elect Trump took rhetorical swings at Scotland’s first minister as a wind farm threatens to ruin the view from in Aberdeen.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Who will be Donald Trump’s real opposition? Maybe the state of California.
The real alternative government in the United States is not the federal Democratic Party, but the state government of California.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Better public transit is a national imperative
The “transportation prison” is trapping more and more people in the United States.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
Climate Accord Begins
The Paris Agreement to combat climate change went into effect on Nov. 4, a landmark deal to tackle global warming amid growing fears that the world is becoming warmer even faster than scientists expected.