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The microplastics discovered in human placentas were much smaller, invisible to the naked eye, but they are part of a rapidly worsening pollution crisis. (iStock/pcess609)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Microplastics are toxic to fetal development—a reminder that the environment is a pro-life issue, too.
Kathleen Bonnette January 21, 2021
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.
Pope Francis speaks in a recorded message for the TED event, "Countdown," in this still frame from a video released by the Vatican Oct. 10, 2020. The pope joined the global virtual event in support of solutions to climate change. (CNS photo/Vatican Press Office)
Politics & SocietyNews
Pope Francis says Earth can’t be ‘squeezed like an orange’
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources October 11, 2020
The predominant global economic system is "unsustainable," particularly in its impact on the environment, Pope Francis said.
Smoke rises from Duke Energy's Marshall Steam Station in Sherrills Ford, N.C., Nov. 29, 2018. Governments have an unprecedented "moral duty" to take urgent action to combat climate change, Catholic development agencies said before the U.N. Climate Change Summit in 2019. (CNS photo/Chris Keane, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyPodcasts
Voting Catholic: Is environmental justice on the ballot?
Erika Rasmussen October 08, 2020
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?
FaithFaith and Reason
Pope Francis wants Catholics to dare to dream of a better way of doing politics
David Albertson, Jason Blakely October 01, 2020
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.
Pope Francis greets religious as he leaves the hermitage and cell of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, in this Oct. 4, 2013, file photo. The pope plans to visit Assisi on Oct. 3 to celebrate a private Mass and sign his new encyclical on human fraternity. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Interview: Assisi archbishop on the pope’s new encyclical and devotion to St. Francis
Gerard O’Connell October 01, 2020
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.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.
Jackie McVicar September 25, 2020
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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