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May 1, 2013

kolyab — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:54:00 +0000

March 20, 2012

kolyab — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:36:22 +0000

Pope Francis Embraces Care for Creation/Care for the Poor

kolyab — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:34:17 +0000

From his election on March 13th through his inauguration mass on March 19th, Pope Benedict, in gestures, symbols and words, made it clear that his leadership of the Roman Catholic Church will have a clear focus on the poor and on a greater mindfulness of the gift of God’s Creation. For an analysis of this first week, please read Fr. Drew Christiansen’s blog in America magazine.

US Bishops Urge Congress to Act on Climate Change

kolyab — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:03:00 +0000

As chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton is urging the US Congress’s Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change to make a commitment to address this urgent global challenge confronting the human family and to ensure that needed climate legislation both cares for creation and protects “the least of these.” Read the entire letter here.

February 20, 2013

kolyab — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:04:03 +0000

Pope Benedict: we are “one humanity moulded with God’s one earth.”

January 23, 2013

kolyab — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:51:32 +0000

Climate Change Back in Public Debate

December 13, 2012

kolyab — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 03:28:04 +0000

Coalition Annual Report 2012

October 24, 2012

kolyab — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:43:32 +0000

Debates: Poor People and Planet Lose

October 3, 2012

kolyab — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:22:05 +0000

Happy Feast of Saint Francis

Feast of St. Francis: Nationwide Film Screening on Forced Climate Migrants

kolyab — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:49:56 +0000

In conjunction with the Feast of St. Francis, the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change is pleased to sponsor a nation-wide screening of the Academy Award-nominated film Sun Come Up (view trailer) depicting some of the world’s first forced climate migrants, inhabitants of the Carteret Islands just north of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. The film and accompanying materials demonstrate the important role that the Catholic Diocese of Bougainville has played in resettling some of these refugees and provides a concrete example of responding to Pope Benedict XVI’s, 2010 World Day of Peace Message: Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change . . . Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of ‘environmental refugees’…?
Learn more and download a flier about this project.