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.
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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.
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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.
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Reading C. S. Lewis during the climate crisis
In “The Great Divorce,” C.S. Lewis paints a rich, multifaceted picture of the afterlife, one that could teach Christians quite a bit about life on Earth today.
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Pope Francis delivers a message of despair in ‘Laudate Deum.’ We ignore it at our peril.
In ‘Laudate Deum,’ Pope Francis takes direct aim at the failure of human action on climate change on the global level.
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The Catholic Church thinks in centuries. But when it comes to climate change, Pope Francis doesn’t.
In “Laudate Deum,” Pope Francis revisits the themes of “Laudato Si’” after eight years—a clear sign of urgency for a Catholic Church that thinks in centuries.
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Pope Francis makes it clear: Climate change must be a priority for all Catholics (especially Americans)
During this coming election cycle, Americans (including Catholics) need to hear far more about the moral duty to protect the environment.
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‘Laudate Deum’: Pope Francis takes aim at U.S. emissions levels in new climate change document
In ‘Laudate Deum,’ Pope Francis takes square aim at the United States, noting that per-capita emissions in the U.S. are twice as high as China and seven times greater than the average in poor countries
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Europe’s Green Deal addresses climate change, but does it reach Pope Francis’ vision of ‘integral ecology’?
The Green Deal amends the European Union’s climate, energy, transport and taxation policies with the short term goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030.