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A Climate-Conscious Lent: 'Climate apartheid' or 'welcome the stranger'?
… summons to solidarity and a preferential option for the poorest of our brothers and sisters. ( Laudato Si' , 158) The majority of people living on our planet profess to be believers. This should spur …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: India chokes on its air
… commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against ourselves and a sin against God.' ( Laudato Si' , 8) Pope Benedict … urged us to realize that creation is harmed 'where we ourselves have the …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Healthy food for people and the planet
… few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction. (Laudato Si', 204) [There] is a minority [that] believes it has the right to consume in a way which can …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Record numbers of species face extinction
… glory to God by their very existence, nor convey their message to us. We have no such right. ( Laudato Si' , 33) You visit the earth and cause it to overflow; You greatly enrich it; The stream of God …
Pope Francis is the guardian angel of the faithful's ambivalence
… and passion enabled him to write a sophisticated clarion call to the climate crisis, " Laudato Si' , on Care for our Common Home." How could an informed, astute mind such as his not at …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Turning down the heat in cities
… but also as a result of urban chaos, poor transportation, and visual pollution and noise. ( Laudato Si' , 44) More precious still is the service we offer to another kind of beauty: people's quality …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: World's freshwater supplies are shrinking
… to human survival and, as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights. ( Laudato Si' , 30) Water supplies used to be relatively constant, but now in many places demand exceeds …
EarthBeat Weekly: Three women leading in defense of the environment
… dialogue, Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich said the adoption of Pope Francis' encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home" has been hindered in part because some Catholics and other …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Rising sea levels threaten millions
… dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity. ( Laudato Si' , 23) The majority of people living on our planet profess to be believers. This should spur …
Cupich: Libertarian ideology hinders Laudato Si' adoption in the church
… people from delving into the message of Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical on the environment, " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home." "The command in Genesis to go and make fruitful and multiply …
Why a Catholic journalist is urging the church to engage Black Lives Matter
… papal documents and bishops statements on issues like racism. In her book, she underscores " Laudato si'," the second encyclical of Pope Francis, where he highlighted the risk of "rampant …