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Melissa Cedillo joins NCR's Latino Catholics Project
… in Latino voter engagement, immigration advocacy, domestic violence policy and prison divestment work as well as writing and communications. "We are excited that Melissa will be …
EarthBeat Weekly: Record-breaking heat helps make climate change feel 'real'
… week for EarthBeat, as the National Catholic Reporter Publishing Co. announced that it was divesting of fossil fuel stocks. NCR environment correspondent Brian Roewe reported on the … in renewable energies. Roewe has been reporting for a number of years on the growing divestment movement in the Catholic Church. In some cases, students are pushing their universities to divest. In other cases, religious groups or organizations are making the decision based on faith, …
National Catholic Reporter board divests company from fossil fuels
… investment portfolio from financial holdings in the fossil fuel sector. The decision to divest was approved unanimously by the NCR board of directors during its May 21 meeting, when the … ways to implement the encyclical, including a section on finances that recommends fossil fuel divestment. "It was time for NCR to align itself, as an institution, with the growing number of … Fr. Thomas Berry, as a company, "to be honest, we have not been out front on the question of divestment," Mitchell said. Mitchell said that National Catholic Reporter, as both a news …
Jesuit schools must be environmental justice leaders, dean says
… and numerous Catholic colleges have taken steps to shrink their carbon footprints, divest from fossil fuels and expand education on the environment and Laudato Si' . Tuchman …
NCR, EarthBeat, Global Sisters Report receive 32 Catholic media awards
… environment correspondent Brian Roewe's reporting on the University of Dayton's fossil fuel divestment was recognized with an honorable mention. NCR won first and second place for best … EarthBeat website was recognized with seven awards. In addition to his coverage of fossil fuel divestment, Roewe won first place for his feature about the first Earth Day celebration and third …
EarthBeat Weekly: Faith leaders pressure Biden on pipelines and climate policy
… for his report on Laudato Si' at five years and honorable mention for coverage of Catholic divestment from fossil fuels . Freelancer Claire Schaeffer-Duffy won first place for her story …
Bad day for Big Oil is big climate win for religious shareholder advocates
… of continuing to work with corporations at a time when global campaigns for fossil fuel divestment have moved more than $14 trillion away from coal, oil and gas companies. Daly pointed out that even leading divestment proponents, like Bill McKibben , celebrated the shareholder victories, which she said …
Pope Francis launches program to put Laudato Si' into action throughout church
… Advocating for sustainable development; Following ethical investment guidelines, including divestment from fossil fuels and other industries that harm the planet. The platform includes …
EarthBeat Weekly: Laudato Si' Week envisions fossil fuel-free future
… energy if we are to avert the worst impacts of a climate crisis. Speaking at a webinar about divestment from fossil fuels, an official of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human … Roewe, who's covered the week's events, takes an in-depth look at how Catholic action on divestment has evolved in recent years , particularly in response to increasingly strong directives coming from the Vatican, and at the debate over divestment vs. stockholder engagement. He also reports that the U.S. bishops are reviewing their …
Vatican official: Church divestment from fossil fuels is 'moral imperative'
… for Promoting Integral Human Development urged Catholic institutions around the world to divest from fossil fuels, calling it a moral and theological imperative and a response to Pope … in the video message that began a May 19 Laudato Si' Week webinar on the topic of fossil fuel divestment . The event was part of the week's official program, sponsored by the integral human … and other messages that Francis emphasized in the encyclical. Among the recommendations was divesting from fossil fuels and reinvesting in renewable energy infrastructure. The Vatican's …
Inside the campaign to divest the Catholic Church from fossil fuels
… warming. Since 2016, the Global Catholic Climate Movement has championed the fossil fuel divestment movement within the church, and its divest-reinvest campaign has played a key role in declarations from roughly 250 Catholic … fuels. Faith-based organizations, about half of them Catholic, represent 34% of the 1,300-plus divesting groups. Still, with tens of thousands of Catholic organizations and institutions around …