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EarthBeat Weekly: Sobering climate report points to need for wealthy countries to scale back lifestyles
… for Religion News Service, Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese noted that Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home" reflects the climate science outlined with increasing urgency …
Addressing the US housing crisis must be a top priority for churches
… example of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of ecology, whose words Pope Francis cited in " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home ." Despite the need for more housing, there are passionate and …
Care for Creation Laudato Si' Workshop
… are joining the fight for climate and environmental justice. August 17th’s “Care for Creation Laudato Si” workshop is an opportunity for grassroots faith leaders to connect their own experiences to …
Environmental leaders: UN climate change report can spur prayerful action
… creation to them as we've done before," Misleh said. Key to the church's response will be the Laudato Si' Action Platform, introduced in May by Pope Francis . It is designed to carry out a global …
The climate apocalypse is real, and it is coming
… are gone, fish species will go extinct. As Pope Francis has taught us in his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si' , this will take both individual and systemic conversion because it will require sacrifice on …
Earth's climate outlook grim but not hopeless, faith leaders say
… an emailed comment that the IPCC report reflected what Pope Francis wrote in his encyclical " Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home ," which said, "Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with …
Climate change evidence 'unequivocal,' some impacts irreversible, report says
… grim and disturbing findings of the ... report only reinforce the message of Pope Francis' Laudato Si' — we must do everything we can, and now, to protect and defend Our Common Home," Bishop John …
COVID-19, global warming and diminishing Catholic guilt
… that will benefit our grandchildren in future decades. Pope Francis, in his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si' , called the world to individual and systemic conversion to prevent the disaster that is …
EarthBeat Weekly: Fires, floods, foot-dragging make climate action more urgent
… increasingly adopt clean energy. Birol made the remarks at a virtual gathering of the Laudato Si' Movement — which, as Roewe also reports, is the new name adopted by the group …
Book recounts successful campaign to ban metal mining in El Salvador
… mining company was rooted in part in the teachings of Pope Francis, including the encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home ." Meanwhile, the Institute for Policy Studies and others …