Environment Ecology Archives

Climate activists protest from Notre Dame Cathedral crane

Jul 9, 2020

Greenpeace activists hung banners from a huge construction crane atop Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Thursday, accusing France and President Emmanuel Macron of not doing enough to fight climate change.

By Associated Press

Pope stresses link between education, ecology for World Environment Day

Jun 6, 2020

“Education listens, or it doesn’t educate,” Pope Francis said. “If you don’t listen, you don’t educate. Education creates culture, or it doesn’t educate. Education teaches us to celebrate, or it doesn’t educate.”

By Inés San Martín

Marking World Environment Day, pope says: Don’t look the other way

Jun 5, 2020

Building a healthier, better world depends on everyone, Pope Francis said in his message marking World Environment Day June 5.

By Carol Glatz

Cardinal calls for sense of urgency as Laudato Si’ turns five

Jun 2, 2020

When a baby cries, parents leave everything and try to stop their baby from crying: Where is that same urgency when it comes to the cries of the earth and the poor? That was the challenge posed by Cardinal Peter Turkson to an online conference on Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’s 2015 ecological encyclical.

By Nick Mayrand

In Brazil, lay missioners see effects of environmental disasters

May 25, 2020

Deep in the Amazon, a perfect storm of environmental issues came to the attention of the world through a series of fires in the rainforest that lasted from August through October.

By Vicki Armour-Hileman

Pandemic’s turmoil an opening to boost protection of creation, bishops say

May 22, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has thrown the world into turmoil, but Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical on care for creation can guide individuals to reassess life’s priorities in response, a trio of prelates agreed during an online roundtable discussion.

By Dennis Sadowski