On March 13th, 2023, the world will celebrate 10 years of Pope Francis leading our global Church. Catholic Climate Covenant joins in this worldwide celebration and is honored and grateful to have in Pope Francis a true champion for Creation.
We are often asked what can we do to help slow climate change?
We know the emission of carbon dioxide through the burning of fossil fuels is one of the largest causes of the climate crisis. Global temperatures continue to rise, causing unprecedented droughts, heatwaves and other extreme weather events which in turn threaten the well-being of present and future generations. We must bring these emissions down. Yet today, the Supreme Court chose to limit EPA’s authority to regulate these emissions, rendering less resourced our collective imperative to care for creation and address the climate crisis.
“What can I do?” This is the question we at Catholic Climate Covenant hear most often from supporters – U.S. Catholics worried about climate change.
For more than 90 years, the Washington Retreat House has offered citizens of the capital a respite from the city’s clanging political culture, a few quiet acres set aside for “refreshment for the soul and rest of the body,” in the words of its founder, Mother Lurana White.
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More than two years into this pandemic, is there anything that gives us more relief, freedom, comfort and hope universally than going outside into nature? For people of faith, it almost always connects us to God.
Once upon a time, Kaeley Einheuser would have been the last person to approach a beehive.
But then St. Joseph’s Academy in St. Augustine, Florida, where Einheuser is a senior, hosted a local beekeeper during Earth Week last year.
After learning about the big role tiny bees play as pollinators in the Earth’s ecosystem, she became an ardent, um, bee-liever.
Recently I stood pondering Laudato Si’ and the daily choices we must make to care for our common home in the middle of a grocery aisle – or a few aisles actually.
I was attending a small gathering of friends and agreed to bring the beverages. My immediate thought was to go to the nearby grocery store and quickly buy something. But there were a vast number of options, and most were packaged in different sizes of plastic – liter bottles, quart bottles, individual bottles ... etc… so I moved on from the plastic aisle.
Today in Rome, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development launched the much awaited enrollment phase of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform.
A scientific paper published in JAMA Network Open, part of the Journal of the American Medical Association, provides clear evidence that the exacerbation of air pollution and heat levels caused by climate change can have severely adverse effects on the unborn, specifically tied to premature births, underweight babies, and stillborn babies.