In issuing “Laudato Si’,” nine years ago, Pope Francis made climate change a central issue in the church’s social teaching. Are we still paying attention?
Climate Change
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‘Deliver Us‘: A Catholic horror movie explores the apocalypse through the climate crisis
“Deliver Us” uses the Christian theme of apocalypse to explore the painfully timely issue of climate crisis.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Pope Francis couldn’t travel to COP28—but he was still a strong presence there.
“Faith actors at COP28 were there to be the moral voice of the climate talks, reminding negotiators that their words, the texts that they fight about, have real consequences in people’s lives.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The Climate Refugees of Honduras
Small farmers here in the middle of Central America’s dry corridor are almost totally reliant on rainfall to water their crops. As those rains become less reliable because of climate change, crop failures and then migration are the results.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Pope Francis to COP28: ‘Destruction of the environment is an offense against God’
In a speech to the COP28 meeting of world leaders in Dubai read by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Pope Francis decried the ‘inordinate greed that has made the environment the object of unbridled exploitation.’
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The Catholics fighting for climate justice
As COP28 kicks off, “Jesuitical” welcomes Jose Aguto, the executive director of Catholic Climate Covenant, to discuss Catholic climate advocacy at this pivotal moment.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
‘Laudato Si’’ to ‘Laudate Deum’: What has changed in Pope Francis’ climate teaching?
The choice by Pope Francis to release “Laudate Deum” eight years after the publication of “Laudato Si’” is an unusual one, signaling an imminent climate crisis.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Scotland leads the way in climate disaster funds for the developing world. Will other nations follow?
With COP28 in the United Arab Emirates imminent, opinion in the developed world on climate change has become deeply polarized. Perhaps exhausted by the digital news cycle, many people have developed compassion fatigue.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Czerny: What Pope Francis hopes to achieve by addressing the COP28 climate conference in Dubai
In an exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell, Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny explains why Pope Francis will address the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai and what he hopes to achieve.
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Interview: Pope Francis’ presence at COP28 climate conference in Dubai is ‘without precedence’
“The pope’s presence at COP28 will be a historic event and without precedence in the history of COP,” Judge Mohamed Abdel Salam, a chief architect of the visit, said in this exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell.