Politics

A new national survey found that young people place the greatest responsibility on the government to address climate change. One in three say they will support candidates who share their climate views.

On Sept.10, Catholic Bishop Leonard Ndjadi Ndjate, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, said the treaty was an ethical imperative that served the best interest of humanity.

The lawsuit, filed on the same day as a similar lawsuit by environmental groups, follows a two-year investigation into what the California attorney general has called the petrochemical industry’s "decades-long deception campaign" over the sustainability of plastics and the feasibility of plastics recycling.

Conservative Catholics who support the demise of the Chevron deference cite agency overreach and religious freedom. But some Catholics say the SCOTUS ruling undermines the common good and Catholic social teaching.
 

A coalition of Western Apache people, along with other Native American and non-Indigenous supporters, under the banner of the non-profit Apache Stronghold, asked the U.S. Supreme Court Sept. 11 to protect their sacred site at Oak Flat, Arizona, from destruction by a copper mining giant after a federal appeals court rejected their request.
 

Visiting the Oceania region where Pope Francis will head next week, the United Nations secretary-general called for international action, and financing, to bolster Pacific island nations facing rising seas and other impacts of climate change.

One of the meeting's top priorities was to explain how faith communities can better use federal funds for clean energy initiatives. 

By strategically using both radical forms of civil disobedience and more mainstream public actions, such as lobbying and state-sanctioned demonstrations, activists can grab the public’s attention while making less aggressive tactics seem much more acceptable.