Tiny pieces of plastic waste, already found at the top of Mount Everest and the bottom of the ocean, may now have a toehold in the human womb, writes Kathleen Bonnette.
Laudato Si’
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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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Pope Francis wants Catholics to dare to dream of a better way of doing politics
With the much-anticipated release of Pope Francis’s new encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” on Oct. 4, Catholic Christians would do well to revisit his critique of false realism and false nostalgia, and his call for the church to foster a political attitude of faithful and daring dreaming.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Interview: Assisi archbishop on the pope’s new encyclical and devotion to St. Francis
Domenico Sorrentino speaks to America about Pope Francis’ deep devotion to St. Francis of Assisi. The pope will sign his new encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti,” in Assisi on Saturday, Oct. 3.
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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 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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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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Contemplating creation through the lens of a wildlife camera
Bobcats, bears, foxes, hares, deer, raccoons, birds and the occasional coyote: Each day we capture wildlife on our trail camera, and my twin daughters continually become more entranced by animals.