Catholic Climate Covenant

May 16, 2012

kolyab — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:24:57 +0000

Alaska Bishop Highlights Dramatic Climate Changes

May 9, 2012

kolyab — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:51:38 +0000

St. Francis Pledge at Three Years

May 2, 2012

kolyab — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:43:21 +0000

New Resources on Climate Change & Environment

April 25, 2012

kolyab — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:55:05 +0000

New Catholic/Methodist Statement on Environment & Eucharist

Powerful U.S. Bishops/United Methodist Church Statement Marks Earth Day

kolyab — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:05 +0000

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the United Methodist Church (UMC) marked Earth Day 2012 with the release a joint statement on the Eucharist and the environment. The statement, Heaven and Earth are Full of Your Glory, affirms that both Methodists and Catholics believe their celebration of the Eucharist helps them to see God’s glory in all of creation and therefore leads to greater care for the environment.
Read entire statement here.

April 18, 2012

kolyab — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:19:59 +0000

Bishops’ Energy Policy Offers Guidance

Timeless USCCB Energy Policy Statement Offers Guidance for Today

kolyab — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:45:01 +0000

Did you know that 31 years ago this month, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Social Development and World Peace (now called the Committee for Justice Peace and Human Development) issued a statement on energy? In the midst of the energy crisis or that time, the bishops of that committee approved what continues to be a very prophetic and highly relevant statement on a variety of issues concerning the extraction, production, use of fossil fuel energy and the hope for renewable sources of energy. In an era of climate change and current ongoing debates about our energy choices, we highly recommend that you read this document and apply its teaching to these debates. To read the document online, click here.

April 11, 2012

kolyab — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:14:34 +0000

Pope’s Easter Message: Creation– God and Creatures together

March 28, 2012

kolyab — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:04:25 +0000

Bishops Around the World Urge Greater Care for Creation

Facing Climate Change Seriously

kolyab — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:38:42 +0000

In response to the on-going moral and ethical challenges of climate change, both America Magazine and Commonweal Magazine featured climate change as the cover story in their respective current issues. In Climate for Change: What the Church Can Do About Global Warming, Xavier theology professor Elizabeth Groppe considers the moral dimensions of climate change and how the Catholic Church can serve as a catalyst for change which more fully cares for God’s Creation and the poor. As Groppe says, Our imperiled planet needs the distinctive paschal witness that the Catholic community can offer. In Commonweal‘s article, “Global Suicide Pact:” Why Don’t We Take Climate Change Seriously? , Creighton theology professor Richard W. Miller maintains that [w]e have a moral responsibility to join together in our communities—universities, hospitals, parishes, dioceses—and communicate to our elected leaders (and to businesses that fund opposition to climate legislation) that we do not intend to be complicit, through silence, in the mass death of human populations and the mass extinction of species.