Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
John Mundell considers it “an incredible honor” that he was recently chosen as the director of the worldwide effort to put Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home” into action.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News
Landmark legislation to address climate change, reduce prescription drug costs and establish a minimum tax on large corporations once thought dead but was suddenly passed by the Senate is being hailed by Catholic advocates.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Among the many environmental issues Pope Francis is concerned about, the one that “has shocked me the most,” he once said, is the way resources are increasingly being consumed faster than they can be regenerated.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
In his message for the World Day of Prayer for Creation, the pope said the current climate crisis is a call for men and women, especially Christians, to “repent and modify our lifestyles and destructive systems.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
The Jesuits at the Vatican Observatory were wowed like most people by the beauty of the photos from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, but the director said they also are excited by the scientific information the telescope will reveal.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
The care of the environment and the fight against climate change is not a lofty goal for humanity but a moral imperative, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
The Vatican is now a formal party to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and has declared it intends also to formally join the 2015 Paris Agreement.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
After Pope Francis led the recitation of the “Regina Coeli” prayer with visitors in St. Peter’s Square May 22, the pope invited everyone to take part in “Laudato Si’ Week,” which runs May 22-29.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News
Catholic leadership should not neglect climate change in favor of social issues including abortion, a Georgetown University panel concluded April 27 in an online discussion about how to apply Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.”
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Environment, Feature, Local News, News
Baltimore-area schools are doing their best, though, to transform the landscapes and practices on campuses to find ways to embrace Pope Francis’ leadership for a seven-year journey toward “Integral Ecology” that he announced in his encyclical letter “Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home.”
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Environment, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview
With Earth Day coming up in April, “Catholic Review Radio” takes a look at the Catholic movement to address climate change, which didn’t start with Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’ – On Care for Our Common Home.”
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Environment, Feature, Local News, News
The Maryland Catholic Conference hosted a virtual town hall Feb. 15 to discuss the responsibility of Catholics in the Archdiocese of Baltimore to care for creation in Maryland.
