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Firefighters stand on a Kamloops Fire Rescue truck at a wildfire near Fort St. John, British Columbia, May 14, 2023. Wildfires have always occurred, but experts say the warming climate is increasing their severity. (OSV News photo/Kamloops Fire Rescue handout via Reuters)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Looming on the geopolitical horizon this week is a significant threat to the multinational campaign on climate change that emerged far from Baku, when Donald Trump became president-elect of the United States.
Honduran environmental activist and lay Catholic leader Juan Antonio López was killed Sept. 14, 2024. (Video screen grab)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Juan López was gunned down as he was leaving Mass by a still unidentified assassin, becoming the latest casualty among defenders of creation and Indigenous and human rights in Honduras.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Christine Lenahan
This year’s Met Gala (mostly) failed to push fashion boundaries—or imagine a more environmentally conscious future.
The sun rises above an array of rooftop solar panels,
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Daniel R. DiLeo
Pope Francis says that responses to climate change “have not been adequate.” This Earth Day, both clergy and laypeople must repent of our sins of omission and work toward decarbonization.
At left: the Marshall Steam Station coal power plant, near Mooresville, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Politics & SocietyOf Many Things
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
In issuing “Laudato Si’,” nine years ago, Pope Francis made climate change a central issue in the church’s social teaching. Are we still paying attention?
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
After the publication of "Laudato Si'," rumors circulated that Pope Francis had personally asked Leonardo Boff for his input on the writing of the encyclical. It marked an ironic turn in the theologian's long career.