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Global climate change is also a spiritual crisis
… continue to suffer in a manner unthinkable to citizens of the so-called "First World." In " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home ," Pope Francis identified precisely this global inequality as …
Conference primes US church for bolder responses to Laudato Si', climate change
… the ecological challenges facing the world. More than 2,600 people registered for the virtual "Laudato Si' and the U.S. Catholic Church" conference, the second of three co-organized by Catholic …
Cardinal Cupich: Laudato Si' calls us to economic and spiritual conversion
… Cardinal Blase Cupich … Recovering the spiritual and theological aspect of Laudato Si' … "In God we trust", we proclaim on our U.S. currency; yet do we? To put it …
EarthBeat Weekly: We need a new relationship with the rest of creation — and with our stuff
… too-often-overlooked connections during his keynote address at the opening of a conference on "Laudato Si' and the U.S. Catholic Church" sponsored jointly this week by the Catholic Climate Covenant …
War drives Kenya's Aweer from the forest where they find God
… our shared planet. June 18 marked the sixth anniversary of the publication of the encyclical " Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home ," in which Pope Francis lamented not only the exploitation and …
Cardinal Cupich: To save planet, US must reject 'false idol' of money
… Brian Roewe … A bolder embrace of Laudato Si' in the U.S. requires rejecting individualism, indifference and the "false idol of … of our time," Cupich said. The cardinal's remarks came during the opening event at the second "Laudato Si' and the U.S. Catholic Church" conference co-hosted by the Catholic Climate Covenant …
Dear Douthat, the church's struggles are not primarily left vs. right
… Pope Francis's magisterium as implicitly integralist — particularly the ecological encyclical Laudato Si' , whose admonitions and prescriptions do not feature prominently in populist politics at the …
Unproven technology to block sun's rays raises practical, ethical concerns, experts say
… that Pope Francis had in mind in his critique of the technocratic paradigm in his encyclical " Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," Green said. In that document, the pope sought not to condemn …
EarthBeat Weekly: What prices at the pump mean for climate policy
… He went on to ask what have the U.S. bishops done in the six years since the release of Laudato Si' "to bring the climate crisis to our attention?" Jim Farrell Jr., on the other hand, had this …
Second Catholic climate conference looks to build more momentum among US church
… total sustainability this decade? All these questions will be topics of discussion at the "Laudato Si' and the U.S. Catholic Church" conference being held virtually July 13-15. The conference is …
Catholics in Argentina speak out against mining and other extractive industries
… speech in December 2019, Fernández has repeatedly mentioned Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home" and has employed some of its terms, such as "common home," on …