Inspired by St. Francis of Assisi and by Pope Francis, 2,000 young adults met online to discuss making the economy more responsive to human dignity and more respectful of creation.
Environment
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Pope Francis says Earth can’t be ‘squeezed like an orange’
The predominant global economic system is “unsustainable,” particularly in its impact on the environment, Pope Francis said.
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Voting Catholic: Is environmental justice on the ballot?
A highly politicized issue that is central to the teaching of Pope Francis. The science and the moral framework are clear. Will American Catholics respond at the voting booth?
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After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.
Over the past two years, 31 people from the municipality of Tocoa, on the lush north shore of Honduras, have faced criminal prosecution as a result of their opposition to an iron ore mining project in the Botaderos Mount “Carlos Escaleras” National Park.
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Who has the ‘greenest’ Catholic diocese in the U.S? Maybe Virginia.
The Diocese of Richmond has responded to the call to care for our common home with a project that will soon generate 1.6 million kilowatt-hours of solar electricity every year.
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Pope Francis: Creation must be protected, not exploited
Human beings must change their relationship with nature and view it not as an “object for unscrupulous use and abuse” but as a gift they are charged by God to care for and protect, Pope Francis said.
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Pope Francis on the ‘ecological conversion’ that led him to ‘Laudato Si’
Between 2007 and the publication of “Laudato Si’” in 2015, Pope Francis “underwent a journey of conversion, of conversion of the ecological problem. Before that I didn’t understand anything.”
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The Amazon faces two crises: Coronavirus and deforestation
Brazil’s ecological offenses have been overshadowed by an arguably graver crisis, according to members of the local church, the government’s disastrous response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Pope Francis: The pandemic has ‘given us a chance to develop new ways of living.’
In his message for the sixth World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Pope Francis also called for “the cancellation of the debt of the most vulnerable countries.”
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Cardinal Czerny: Care of the earth and concern for migrants are connected
The “common thread” among the celebrations, especially in 2020, the cardinal said, “is our common home in which the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor are one cry.”