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Catholic bishops answer Biden executive orders with flood of press releases
The American Catholic bishops have responded to the extraordinary number of executive orders from President Joe Biden with an extraordinary number of press releases of their own. The press releases are noteworthy not only in their number but also in their positive tone. The day Biden was inaugurated as president, he was greeted by what even some bishops saw as a very negative statement from Los…
Your thoughts on Catholic complicity in Capitol attack
… Donald Trump in this past election. The hate and violence perpetrated by this cultish leader flooded our living rooms and our lives in shocking realities. While some of the marauders upheld …
'There is no vaccine for climate change,' U.N. environment chief says
… into actual resilience against climate change impacts ranging from wildfires, droughts and floods to sea-level rise. Fewer than five out of 100 adaptation projects have yielded any …
CRS official opposes Trump's action to seek foreign spending cuts
… the world. "We've got throughout East Africa a locust infestation. Drought in some places and floods in others. Plus there's endemic climate change-induced problems and the COVID pandemic. So …
How should Christ-believers counter insurrectionist cults?
… Christine Schenk … Of all the shocking images that flooded our screens on Jan. 6, I am most outraged by a flag bearing the name of Jesus carried by …
Stopping the last tar sands pipeline will take all of us
… and bridges. But we're getting a climate bomb pipeline instead. Enbridge would like to start flooding the north country with oil, as quick as it can. The Red Lake and White Earth tribes and …
Creighton University to divest fully from fossil fuels within 10 years
… and limiting the threats that accompany rising temperatures, such as increased droughts, flooding and destructive storms. Emily Burke, a senior at Creighton and one of the leaders in its …
Extreme heat, wildfires, storms marked advance of climate change in 2020
… 50 miles inland, Aug. 27 with 135-mph winds and torrential rains that caused widespread flooding. Much of the diocese's infrastructure sustained serious damage, as dozens of churches, … storm of the year on the planet, left 25 people dead and thousands of people displaced by flooding and wide-scale destruction of homes and farms. It was the second super typhoon of the …
Christmas comes in Honduras amid post-hurricane devastation
… weather events: droughts and wildfires on one hand, storms and hurricanes with accompanying floods on the other. In early November, Hurricane Eta made landfall in Honduras and dropped … Iota followed Eta's path, pouring water for days on already saturated lands and causing flood damage to housing, infrastructure and crops. Housing in the north, center and west of the country was flooded for up to three weeks in places like Pimienta, pictured above. Flash floods came at 2 …
2020: A year like no other
… Taylor and other victims of police violence, and of the fellow citizens of all colors who flooded the streets to demand that Black Lives Matter. Sadly, it was also a year in which …
Advent is a time of both waiting and action on climate change
… due to burning fossil fuels that could "jeopardize food supplies" and "trigger catastrophic flooding." It looked like the wait was over, too, for international action: 194 countries signed …
Five years after Paris, the ecological alarm is ringing loud and clear
… was just one more threat to the hundreds of millions of people hanging by a thread because of floods, invasion of locusts, droughts and tropical cyclones. We should dedicate all the media …