Catholic Climate Covenant founder Dan Misleh named interim director following resignation of Jose Aguto as executive director
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Katie Zakrzewski, 501-618-0234 katie@catholicclimatecovenant.org Friday, April 12, 2024 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The board of directors for Catholic Climate Covenant named Dan Misleh as the interim director of the Covenant, following Jose Aguto’s resignation as executive director March 28. Aguto announced his decision to step down to the Covenant board of directors […]
The values that guide us, and wrapping up the year with a new look and feel
This was a very busy year for growth and planning for us at Catholic Climate Covenant! We started with strategic planning in the Spring, where we settled on a new logo and tagline to define our U.S. Catholic work for creation: “Together for Our Common Home.” We felt that best described how it will take […]
Magnificat high school seeks to make its campus sacred ground
Like the women who founded their school, the Sisters of the Humility of Mary, Magnificat High School in Rocky River, Ohio sees every inch of their campus as an opportunity to glorify God and his Creation. So when they trained their sights on a small grassy knoll between their tennis courts, a beehive and a […]
How one Catholic college is growing ‘students with roots’
As Holy Cross College students arrived on campus in Notre Dame, Indiana, they were greeted by Laudato Si’-inspired messages shared by the Common Home Student Group, one of many ways the organization hopes to ignite spiritual and ecological conversions. Shawn T. Storer, the group’s faculty advisor and a Holy Cross theology professor, said student organizers […]
COP28 webinar asks Christians to connect their head, heart and hands
While global leaders gather for COP28, the UN-led climate summit, people of faith have important roles to play in their own communities, climate scientist and Christian activist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe said during a webinar co-hosted by Catholic Climate Covenant and the Laudato Si’ Movement. “Climate action does not begin at COP,” Hayhoe said during the […]