Catholicism & the Environment

Article

The Next Step

'Laudato si’' develops a notion of solidarity within and between generations, not only with fellow human beings but with the whole earth and all its creatures.

By Anthony Annett

July 7, 2015

Article

Climate of Folly

Why are Catholic politicians backing Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Accord?

By Anthony Annett

June 2, 2017

Feature

Witness to Climate Change

"I am drawn to the precarious places that mark the shifting boundaries between nature and the effects of our not-so-natural disasters"

By Carolyn Monastra

March 11, 2017

Article

Climate Change: Responding to Minimizers

Requesting arguments against the climate change deniers

By Peter Steinfels

November 29, 2015

Environment

Climate Change

Article

'Everything Is Connected'

For Francis, climate change is part of a larger ecological crisis—that itself is part of a larger ethical failure involving how we treat the poor and the unborn.

By The Editors

June 29, 2015

Article

Bishops of the World Unite on Climate Change

The world’s bishops are for the first time fully united behind an extremely ambitious climate agenda—and that includes the US bishops.

By Anthony Annett

October 26, 2015

Environment

Article

Educational Video on Laudato si'

By Anthony Annett

September 1, 2015

Environment

Pope Francis

Article

All Hands on Deck

The National Climate Assessment report makes clear that the emission of carbon is causing climate change; this is not a hypothesis, but a scientific fact

By The Editors

May 13, 2014

Article

Why Climate Change is Not a Prudential Judgment

By David Cloutier

June 10, 2015

Environment

Article

Paul Ryan, Laudato Si', and the Paris Climate Accord

Paul Ryan and Pope Francis disagree on how climate change will impact the poor.

By Paul Moses

October 5, 2016

Article

Polemics around climate change issue are Catholic polemics as well

Does the Earth Have Rights?

By Robin Darling Young

April 30, 2015

Article

At Our Mercy

We have failed utterly to protect our planet and those who share it with us; for Christians, this constitutes a profound break with God

By Elizabeth A. Johnson

January 23, 2014

Article

The environment has long been a poor stepchild within Christian theology, and the Catholic Church is no exception

They're Getting Warmer

By Eduardo M. Peñalver

April 3, 2008

Domestic Affairs

Short Take

Article

Regeneration

The concepts of ecological sustainability are not foreign to Congolese, who have a deep conviction that the land belongs first and foremost to their ancestors

By Mary Frohlich

November 7, 2011

Environment

The Last Word

Article

Hispanics Lead U.S. Catholics on Climate Change

Nearly 90 percent of Latinos in a recent study cited a “moral duty” to preserve the planet for children and to respect ancestors’ legacy of care for the earth.

By Katie Rose Quandt

March 11, 2015

Article

The Jewish and Christian traditions put before us a world view in which humanity is not against nature but a part of it

The Sacrament of Creation: Toward an Environmental Theology

By Rev. Michael J. Himes and Rev. Kenneth R. Himes, O.F.M

January 26, 1990

Environment

U.S. Catholicism

Secularism and Modernity

Domestic Affairs

Theology

Article

Bread, Butter & Climate Change

The environmental movement gets criticized for neglecting social and economic injustice. But California is seeking to align climate and economic policy-making.

By Luke Mayville

December 23, 2015