World leaders are running out of time and must address the challenges of climate change before it’s too late, Pope Francis said.
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Four ways your parish can fight climate change (on a budget)
If entire nations are falling short at combatting climate change, what can local communities and small churches hope to contribute? Well, a lot.
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‘Our ecological crisis is fundamentally a moral one’: Catholic Climate Covenant’s new executive director hopes to inspire care for creation
In his tenure as new executive director of the Catholic Climate Covenant, Jose Aguto looks to inspire other Catholics to enact climate action to be better stewards of the earth and its most vulnerable people.
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Podcast: Pope Francis is calling for action on climate change. Will the U.S. bishops listen?
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell unpack Pope Francis’ message to the leaders at COP26 and how the pope understands his role in the climate movement.
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Pope Francis’ COP26 message: ‘There is no time to waste’ on climate change
“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?
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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.