Unborn children would face greater health risks if the Environmental Protection Agency moves to rescind a rule regulating hazardous air pollutants emitted by power plants, said the chairmen of two U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committees.
Bishops say EPA plan to roll back pollution rule would harm the unborn
World health depends on changing way food is made, eaten, say speakers
Speakers at a Vatican conference on sustainable development said the food people choose at the supermarket and cook in their kitchens can make a huge difference in helping address the global problems of hunger, obesity and climate change.
Indonesian archbishop urges Catholics to ditch use of plastic bags
Months after Indonesia’s military was summoned to unclog Jakarta Bay, Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo has joined a chorus of disapproval of the nation’s growing plastic waste problem by calling parishioners to action.
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.
Vatican shuts down fountains as Rome deals with drought
While Rome reels from one of its worst droughts in decades, the Vatican is doing its part to conserve water by shutting down the city-state’s 100 fountains.
Trump’s decision to abandon Paris climate pact called ‘deeply troubling’
President Donald Trump’s June 1 decision “not to honor the U.S. commitment” to the Paris climate agreement “is deeply troubling,” said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace.
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.
‘Greater horizons’: Tending to each other and our common home
The old farmers used to say you should leave a field better than you found it. Sometimes that called for heavy lifting. Other times it just meant picking up a rock as you crossed and placing it at the field’s edge.