Climate change Archives

Director: Guilt and forgiveness at heart of ‘The Two Popes’

Dec 13, 2019

Although superficially, “The Two Popes” is about an imagined conversation between Pope Benedict XVI and then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio – today Pope Francis – for the director of the film it is all about guilt, forgiveness and dialogue.

By Inés San Martín

Pope vents frustration over lack of political will to implement ‘Laudato Si’

Dec 6, 2019

Four years after publishing his provocative encyclical ‘Laudato Si’, Pope Francis has criticized its implementation, saying in two separate messages published this week that the global resolutions the document hoped to influence are failing, largely due a lack of commitment from the parties involved.

By Elise Harris

At Madrid climate talks, Catholics work to provide ‘moral perspective’

Dec 5, 2019

Catholic campaigners at U.N. climate talks welcomed support from Pope Francis and vowed to bring a “firm moral perspective” to intergovernmental negotiations.

By Jonathan Luxmoore

Pope demands action for failing fight against climate change

Dec 4, 2019

Despite growing recognition of climate change as a legitimate and looming threat, current commitments to mitigate its effects and alter human behavior fall short of those needed to resolve the crisis in time, Pope Francis said.

By Paige Hanley

Success in protecting ozone layer offers lessons for future, pope says

Nov 7, 2019

Decades of fruitful international cooperation on protecting the earth’s ozone layer serve as an important lesson for guiding collaboration needed today, Pope Francis said.

By Carol Glatz

Climate change forcing Pacific islanders from homes, cardinal says

Oct 24, 2019

When Cardinal John Ribat of Papua New Guinea was young, he and his neighbors noticed that their well water tasted of salt. Crops also failed as the soil became salty.

By Barbara Fraser