Environment Ecology Archives - Page 2 of 3

Indian Jesuit says habits of the heart needed to help environment
- Global Church
- June 10, 2017
A priest in India has urged people to launch a ‘Movement of Catholics’ to save the environment, joining the larger civil society action movement, and making elected representatives accountable for the formulation and implementation of ecological policies. Father Frazer Mascarenhas S.J. said this is also “our religious duty,” adding “this is the call of Pope Francis.”
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Politics, culture or theology? Why evangelicals back Trump on global warming
- Commentary, Religion News Service
- June 9, 2017
The Catholic Church and mainline Protestant denominations have been some of the loudest voices in calling for action to protect the environment. Why, then, did many Evangelical Christians support Donald Trump’s move to leave the Paris Climate Agreement? New research indicates that on environmental issues, at least, conservative Christian theology may be the driving force behind the sharply divergent views of evangelicals.
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Oil pipelines are in step with the church’s integral ecology
- Church in the US, Commentary
- March 31, 2017
Although oil pipelines have gotten a lot of bad press, are they really that bad for the environment? A careful reading of ‘Laudato Si’’ – the ecological encyclical written by Pope Francis – shows that pipelines might actually be the most responsible way to transport petroleum.
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Catholics, indigenous ask commission to protect land rights

Forced to leave their lands and endangered by the pollution in the air and water, secluded indigenous people in the Amazon fear for their survival. Catholic leaders are calling for governments to protect their territorial rights and the environment.

Greed, selfishness corrupt beauty of God’s creation, pope says

“When carried away by selfishness, human beings end up ruining even the most beautiful things that have been entrusted to them,” Pope Francis said February 22 at his weekly general audience. Creation is not “a possession we can exploit as we please and for which we do not have to answer to anyone.”

Pope Francis adds ‘secular Jewish feminist’ Naomi Klein to climate team

Church

July 1, 2015

ROME — If proof were needed that politics really does make odd bedfellows, the sight of progressive Canadian activist Naomi Klein on a Vatican platform with the pope’s personal spokesman on Wednesday, joining forces in the push for stronger environmental protection, probably provides it. “This is an alliance on a