Brazil’s Catholic Church has launched the “Life by a Thread” campaign to give visibility to the increased violence against those who defend social and environmental rights.
Brazilian church campaign draws attention to threats against advocates
Commentary: Summer heat and cool air
The desire to cool our air results in about 117 million metric tons of carbon dioxide being released into the air each year, according to the Department of Energy.
Creation is sacred gift deserving respect, care, pope says on Earth Day
Marking the celebration of 50th Earth Day, the pope dedicated his audience talk to urging people to protect the earth and its inhabitants.
Church teaching on sexual identity affirmed in Minnesota school guidelines
Catholic educators have a charge to teach that a person’s sexual identity is a gift from God that cannot change and resist cultural tides toward “gender theory,” according to new guiding principles released by Minnesota’s bishops.
The quiet, urgent work of Catholic Rural Life plows ahead
“Raising children on a dairy farm can be isolating,” said Brenda Rudolph, who contributes to Catholic Rural Life’s blog and belongs to St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish in Bowlus.
Jason Adkins: Integral ecology as antidote to environmentalist pseudo-religion
Understanding and putting into practice Catholic social teaching is vital to address the challenges of creation stewardship without falling into the environmental activism today that often mimics religious apocalypticism.
Praising God for gift of creation leads to respect for it, pope says
In a message sent in early July to participants of an Italian conference on the consequences of deforestation in the Amazon, Pope Francis said the current situation in the South American rainforest “is a sad paradigm of what is happening in many parts of the planet.”
Elise Italiano Ureneck: The world we leave our children
The world in which our children are growing up is one in which common sense and common ground have been sacrificed for all-or-nothing ideological commitments that lack a consistent application of principles.