With the E.P.A. under threat, Catholics should remember our responsibility to protect all of the earth’s most vulnerable inhabitants.
Environment
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Court rules that company can take nuns’ land to build natural gas pipeline
“Clearly, the harm alleged by Transco outweighs this harm alleged by the Adorers,” the court opinion read.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
President of Strake Jesuit in Houston: ‘Our care for one another seems limitless.’
No one will be surprised to know that our Jesuit family is responding generously.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Canadian bishops call out their country’s mining companies for destructive practices abroad
The bishops are condemning the exploitation of land and indigenous peoples by Canadian mining companies operating in Latin America and other regions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Netflix’s “Chasing Coral” documents an unseen environmental disaster
A team of scientists set out to film the transition of coral from a brilliantly colored living organism to a decaying corpse.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Does divestment evangelize or enable the fossil-fuel industry?
One option for promoting just business practices is divestment, but investing to gain a seat at the corporate table is also an important advocacy strategy.
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Pipeline protesters cite Catholic Worker movement as inspiration
“We chose to take these actions after seeing the continued desecration of the Earth, which we are to be stewards of,” Ms. Montoya told America.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Al Gore’s Sequel: The climate change movie no one wanted to have to make
The people behind “An Inconvenient Truth” can be forgiven for indulging in a bit of “I told you so” in their follow-up film, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.”
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No coins in the fountain? Vatican closes spigot as Rome drought continues
Meteorologists say spring 2017 was Italy’s third-driest in some 60 years. The drought has put Rome at risk for drastic water rationing, a measure being considered later this week by authorities.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
The Transgression
We all unfold as music. / Our desire appears each morning.