Rather than rely on the unstable electric grid in Puerto Rico, Nuestra Señora del Carmen Parish opted for solar, with hopes of serving as a climate resilience hub to prepare for future storms.
With Malawi and other southern African countries still reeling nearly 10 months after Cyclone Freddy, Catholic sisters gathered to learn advocacy skills to lobby on the neglected survivors' behalf.
"Vita gave Mercy a new way of mission due to our present age profile," said a Sister of Mercy who is on Vita's board. She calls the Green Impact Fund "visionary" because of its circular model and focus on communities.
An agriculture project helps postulants in a Zimbabwean community grow in all aspects of life: exercise, discipline, planning, follow-through and respect for the Earth and its gifts.
In recent decades congregations began moving investments into companies and funds that make a positive impact on the world. Now, some are even using their money to change the investing landscape itself.
Horizons - The backbone of India is its farmers. What greater mission and evangelization can sisters have other than strengthening and supporting the backbone of society?
Thanks to a recent donation from the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice will expand its lobbying portfolio on Capitol Hill to include climate advocacy.
The Catholic Church is the largest private landowner in the world. Its decision-makers can model a true ethic of repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery through acts of land return, rematriation and land reparations.
The Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace are taking on Citigroup in a shareholder resolution after the global bank provided billions of dollars to a major oil company with a lengthy track record of spills.