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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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LA archbishop warns about the importance of ‘human ecology’
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- June 9, 2017
A week after President Trump announced his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris agreement, the Archbishop of Los Angeles has written a column about the importance of ‘the human ecology’ and the dangers of today’s “throw away culture.”
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A Catholic Response to Climate Skeptics: Create a Culture of Encounter
- Commentary
- June 5, 2017
Those of us who are worried about climate change should do a better job of genuinely encountering those who think differently. In engaging them we should listen first and answer their arguments seriously. Name-calling and label-slapping is not only antithetical to genuine encounter, it undermines our ability to be heard.
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Safeguarding creation is religious obligation, Vatican officials say
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- June 2, 2017
“Our vocation to be guardians of God’s handiwork is not optional,” wrote head officials of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in a letter to Muslims for the end of Ramadan. The letter was published one day after President Trump announced his intention to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
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Catholic leaders “disappointed” by Trump’s withdrawal from Paris Agreement
- Church in the US, Global Church
- June 1, 2017
Catholic leaders, including the U.S. bishops’ conference and Catholic Relief Services, have issued statements criticizing President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The Paris Agreement “represents the important awareness that, faced with issues as complex as climate change, individual and/or national action is not enough; instead it is necessary to implement a responsible collective response truly intended to work together in building our common home,” Pope Francis wrote to the 22nd session of the UN convention on climate change in 2016.
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