Cardinal Cláudio Hummes Archives

Church leaders from U.S., Amazon ask governments to protect rainforest

Apr 17, 2021

Less than a week before the U.S.-sponsored Leaders Summit on Climate, environmental and religious leaders said they are worried about talks on how to preserve the region and are asking government officials from the U.S. and the Amazon to look at kindly at the rainforest and its peoples.

By Lise Alves

Peru’s rising star tapped to lead Pan-Amazon ecclesial network

Oct 16, 2020

Earlier this week it was announced that Cardinal Pedro Barreto, who was among the chief architects of last year’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, would be taking charge of the Catholic Church’s leading entity dedicated to protecting the Pan-Amazonian region.

By Elise Ann Allen

‘We will live and die with you,’ cardinal tells virtual Amazon assembly

Jul 26, 2020

Church leaders sent a strong message of support to an unprecedented virtual assembly of more than 3,000 indigenous leaders, small farmers, environmental campaigners and women from the nine countries of the Amazon region seriously affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Mary Durran

Catholic leaders warn of humanitarian, environmental tragedy in Amazon

May 19, 2020

Catholic leaders warn that as the coronavirus pandemic spreads into the Amazon basin, the region may face a “humanitarian and environmental tragedy.”

By Barbara Fraser

Amazon governors, meeting after synod, support ‘green economy’

Oct 29, 2019

Governors from eight Amazonian states in Brazil and Peru meeting at the Vatican agreed that the Amazon is threatened and called for a “green economy” that would allow people to generate income without destroying the forest.

By Barbara Fraser

Amazon bishops pledge poverty, spurning plastics and taking the bus

Oct 20, 2019

Facing what signatories call an “avalanche of consumerism,” 40 bishops pledged Sunday to assume a “happily sober lifestyle, simple and in solidarity with those who have little or nothing; to reduce the production of garbage and the use of plastics, favoring the production and commercialization of agro-ecological products; and using public transport whenever possible.”

By Inés San Martín

In synod debate over married priests, is the Rhine flowing into the Amazon?

Oct 18, 2019

One might say that just as the Rhine flowed into the Tiber at Vatican II, in the words of the title to Ralph Wiltgen’s controversial history, so today the Rhine is also flowing into the Amazon.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Could the Amazon synod be Cardinal Marc Ouellet’s last hurrah?

Oct 10, 2019

Though he probably wouldn’t have chosen it as his battleground, in effect the debate over married priests at the 2019 Amazon synod could be Ouellet’s last hurrah, his final opportunity in a meaningful setting to make the case for tradition in a time of runaway change.

By John L. Allen Jr.