“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.
The quiet, urgent work of Catholic Rural Life plows ahead
New study resources released for ‘Minnesota, Our Common Home’
The Minnesota Catholic Conference, the public policy voice of the Catholic Church in Minnesota, recently unveiled two new resources for its educational text “Minnesota, Our Common Home” — the “Study Guide Version” and “Ecological Examen.”
Ghana’s faith-based community learns how to recycle hazardous e-waste
With the growing amount of waste generated around the world, the development agency of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference, organized a workshop for faith-based organizations to help employees learn how to safely and effectively dispose of e-waste.
Austrian bishops become third conference to divest from fossil fuels
The Austrian bishops’ conference is the most recent Catholic institution to say it will divest from fossil fuels.
Forty Catholic institutions plan to divest from fossil fuels
As the monthlong “Season of Creation” ended, forty Catholic institutions, including the Belgian bishops’ conference and a leading church social welfare agency in South Africa, have decided to divest from fossil fuel companies citing the call of Pope Francis in his 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.”
Integral ecology: Care for creation means caring for the poor
Catholic social teaching has developed over the past century as new problems — human, social, economic and environmental — come clearer into focus and call out for a faith-based response.
Virginia Catholics join the zero waste movement to promote green living
Through the growing zero waste movement, Jane Crosby a graduate from Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, has made an effort to live a more practical and environmentally friendly life, as well as, reawakened her Catholic faith.
Finding the benefits of pope’s advice in the community garden
When the Vatican released in 2015 the pope’s encyclical on the environment, the now famous “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” I set out to find a way to heed its call.