Tag: environment
Greta Thunberg’s urgent message did not get the response it deserved:...
Unless you were sleeping last month, you probably caught at least a glimpse of the newsmaking 16-year-old Swede, Greta Thunberg, on her U.S. tour....
Kentucky students learn sustainability helps protect God’s creation
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Sustainability is a lesson that even the leader of a green-minded school admits she is learning.
Students at St. Agnes School in...
South America’s Amazon: culturally diverse, globally important
LIMA, Peru — When Pope Francis came face to face with more than 2,000 Amazonian indigenous people in Peru in January 2018, he told...
Caritas reps from Latin America look for ways to build on...
Catholic representatives from Latin America and the Caribbean, defining work for the next four years, looked for ways to build on the foundations of...
State of Earth tomorrow depends on action today, pope tells activists
VATICAN CITY — While everyone has a role and responsibility to help safeguard the planet, all governments must uphold commitments agreed upon in the...
Cardinal Turkson urges Catholics to ‘feel pain of the planet, the...
Catholic News Service
MIAMI — Pope Francis’ right-hand man on the environment and climate change issues urged Catholics attending an academic conference here to let...
Catholic activists, pope say more work needed after U.N. climate change...
PARIS — German Msgr. Josef Sayer prayed over a crowd of environmental activists at Saint-Merri Catholic Church, where they had joined for Mass after...
In Nairobi, pope hopes Paris Climate Conference achieves global agreement
Catholic News Service
NAIROBI, Kenya — The international community is facing a stark and serious choice, “either to improve or to destroy the environment,” Pope...
If people love God, they must care for what he has...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The lead consultant on “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment, said that although it’s a document of nearly 40,000...
God will judge people on care for the poor and the...
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — The powerful of the earth will face God’s judgment and will be asked to account for how they cared...