Stories

Read blog entries from Catholic Climate Covenant below.

A West Virginia parish cleans up a ‘resurrected river’

In the Book of Genesis, God’s spirit moves over the waters. Recently, the Creation Care Team at Blessed Sacrament Church in South Charleston, West Virginia decided to move our own spirits — and bodies — over a local waterway in the hopes of cleaning it up.

We’re In This Together

Of the many things I learned from our Ecospirituality Nights series, I think this was the first – that I am not alone.

Washington Retreat House in nation’s capital goes green for guests

For more than 90 years, the Washington Retreat House has offered citizens of the capital a respite from the city’s clanging political culture, a few quiet acres set aside for “refreshment for the soul and rest of the body,” in the words of its founder, Mother Lurana White.

In California, two young Catholics at the forefront of climate and environmental conversations and activism

In fall of 2021, the California Conference of Catholic Bishops made the exciting decision to participate in the Laudato Si’ Action Platform, sending a clear message about the importance of creation care that surely came as cause for celebration for the many Catholics across the state who have long been working to protect our common home and its most vulnerable members.