“The young, who in recent years have strongly urged us to act, will only inherit the planet we choose to leave to them,” the pope said in his message for the Glasgow climate conference.
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Will God answer our prayers about climate change? Catholics in Glasgow await an urgent climate meeting
Will God answer the many prayers raised for COP26 in countless places of worship worldwide this weekend? Will the planet’s leaders accept what they must do?
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Meet the Catholic map lady who wants to help Pope Francis fight climate change—if the Vatican will let her.
Molly is on a mission to not only make a digital record of Catholic landholdings but to help the church use that land for good.
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Pope Francis on BBC Radio: We need ‘a genuine moment of conversion’ on climate change
Radio listeners in the United Kingdom started the day with an unexpected voice this morning when they were greeted by Pope Francis in an exclusive message for the BBC.
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Pope Francis and Joe Biden could inspire action on climate change as COP26 begins
“Having the most powerful political leader in the world and the greatest moral voice of our time talking together about climate change is extremely powerful.”
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Latin Mass, women priests, celibacy? Climate change will make all the church’s arguments pointless
Nothing will change the church more profoundly than the color green ceasing to be ordinary.
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Why the COP26 climate conference matters for Catholics
An honest conversation on climate change, the upcoming COP26 meeting and what Catholics can do to respond to Pope Francis’ calls for ecological conversion.
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Podcast: The Vatican hosted 40 religious leaders to call for climate action. Can they make a difference?
With the COP26 conference focused on advancing the goals of the Paris Agreement, Colleen and Gerry ask, can this interreligious document play a similar role to “Laudato Si,” changing the hearts and minds of political leaders from around the world?
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Pope Francis will not attend climate summit in Glasgow after all
Pope Francis will not be going to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, as he had hoped.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis and 40 faith leaders call for urgent action to combat climate change: ‘Future generations will never forgive us’
In an unprecedented response to the “grave threat” facing all peoples worldwide from climate change, Pope Francis and some 40 faith leaders have joined in an appeal for urgent action.