Bishop J. Mark Spalding has visited the affected pastors and churches in Nashville and offered prayers of support for all those suffering from the trauma of the disaster.
Environment
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Fear and uncertainty haunt Mexico’s monarch butterfly reserve after activists’ murder
A shadow hangs over El Rosario where each year millions of monarch butterflies alight on the reserve’s fir trees. Two local protectors of Mexico’s monarch preserve have been killed, and so far, no one can say what happened to them.
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After student protest, Creighton University endorses plan to begin divestment from fossil fuels
Last November, 85.8 percent of voting students—2,438 in total—supported a nonbinding referendum that urged university trustees to sell off the then-10.6 percent of the university endowment that was invested in fossil fuel corporations by 2025.
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After ‘Laudato Si’,’ Catholic Climate Project seeks to foster prayerful climate action
The project is poised to utilize the energy of young Catholics, many of whom are deeply concerned about the threats that climate change poses to the planet and, by extension, to human dignity.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
We’re all tied to the Amazon through globalization. Can the synod help us listen to its cry?
The apostolic exhortation “Querida Amazonia,” conveys the suffering of the Amazon and its people in stark terms, writes Vincent J. Miller. We must not be distracted from its message.
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Five Takeaways from ‘Querida Amazonia’
The document will delight some and disappoint others.
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How should Catholics respond to fears of a climate change apocalypse?
These days, we frequently read headlines and wonder if it is already too late.
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Bishops express sorrow, support after U.S. firefighters die in Australia
The three Americans were among eight firefighters and 31 people total who have died in the wildfires since September.
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Ireland is fine with fracking—as long as it happens in Pennsylvania
Ireland will violate the concept of the common good if it meets its energy needs through the contamination of water on the other side of the Atlantic, writes Ciara Murphy of the Jesuit Center for Faith and Justice.
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Inclusion of ‘ecological sin’ in catechism prompts debate
Ecological sin was discussed at length during Synod of Bishops for the Amazon in October