Reversing any effort that reduces greenhouse gas pollution endangers the planet and puts the world’s most vulnerable people at risk, the advocates said.
Laudato Si’
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Trump’s “care” for the environment is the opposite of Catholic social teaching.
President Donald J. Trump’s executive order to repeal key policies meant to curb global warming is a direct contradiction of Catholic social teaching on caring for the environment.
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Pope Francis: Top Ten Moments
It’s the four year anniversary of Pope Francis’ election to the papacy and we bring you Francis’ Top Ten moments of the past four years.
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Vatican workshop: Focus on profit and fossil fuels is a bigger threat to the earth than population growth
Solutions should focus more on correcting unjust systems and selfish behaviors than population control.
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Pope Francis: Protecting the planet is an ethical, moral obligation
Pope Francis praised the 100 countries that joined the Paris climate agreement but emphasized that implementing it must involve multidisciplinary cooperation and special measures of solidarity with the poor.
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As Mass Extinction Threatens, Are Catholics Listening to ‘Laudato Si’’?
Researchers say deforestation, pollution, overfishing and the illegal wildlife trade, together with climate change, “are pushing species populations to the edge.”
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Another great extinction and is anyone listening to ‘Laudato Si’’?
Deforestation, pollution, overfishing and the illegal wildlife trade, together with climate change, “are pushing species populations to the edge.”
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October surprise: could Pope Francis win the Nobel Peace Prize?
This is the third year that the pope has been considered a strong contender for the prize, though he remains a long shot.
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If the environmental encyclical didn’t change your heart or mind, maybe poetry can.
Like Pope Francis, Oliver’s poetry invites readers to let the distractions of our modern, constant motion, hyper-stimulated world fall away from time to time, to enter into that quiet place of contemplation and gratitude that waits in the world all around us.
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Top Ten Takeaways from ‘Laudato Si’’
Pope Francis’ revolutionary new encyclical calls for a “broad cultural revolution” to confront the environmental crisis. “Laudato Si” is also quite lengthy.