climate change

Irish Church development org denounces climate change disasters kill 14 times more women than men

Irish Church development org denounces climate change disasters kill 14 times more women than men

'Querida Amazonia' - Polish Bishops' President thanks Pope for 'loud cry of Church for rights of poor'

‘Querida Amazonia’: Polish Bishops’ President thanks Pope for “loud cry of Church for rights of poor”

'Green deal' for Europe

Catholic aid org CIDSE calls on EU “to make ‘Green Deal’ work” for partner countries, climate, biodiversity

German Catholics to fast this Lent to save planet from climate change

German Catholics to fast this Lent to save planet from climate change

The Datteln 4 coal power plant

Catholic theologians sue police for being detained in protest over new German coal plant Datteln 4

EU Bishops of COMECE urge Brussels to 'policy coherence'

EU Bishops of COMECE urge Brussels to “policy coherence” on trade, development, climate, human rights

Pope's post-synodal apostolic exhortation 'Querida Amazonía'

Catholic aid org CIDSE welcomes Amazon exhortation: “A poetic call to undertake radical changes”

'Querida Amazonía', the Pope's post-Amazon Synod exhortation

‘Querida Amazonía’: 7 of the Pope’s most powerful political statements, beyond the Church debates

Environmental protection 'intrinsic part of Christian faith'

Environmental protection “intrinsic part of Christian faith”, Churches insist in Brussels

Cardinal Peter Turkson, in Davos

Vatican cardinal’s impassioned plea to Davos: “The Earth and the poor are crying”

Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

Orthodox head denounces in Davos: “We are abusing the Earth in an irresponsible and godless manner”

A church and green space in the Netherlands

Dutch parishes go green to counter Catholic demographic decline

Pope Francis January 9 in his 'State of the World' address

Pope denounces world’s “very weak” response to climate change “a source of grave concern”

The Polish priest with his solar panel cross

Polish priest installs “beautiful, economic and ecological” solar panel cross on church

Anti-climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg

Irish Primate defends “prophet” Greta as Polish bishops redouble attacks

Jedraszewski and Thunberg

Polish archbishop blasts Greta Thunberg as Antichrist

Swedish anti-climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg

Former Vatican spokesman: “Greta is an icon”

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J.

Cardinal Hollerich denounces political inaction on Med refugee crisis due to “fear of right-wing parties”

Pope Francis December 20 with UN Secretary General António Guterres

Pope, UN Secretary General plead “not to look the other way” on violence, poverty, climate

Lignite Power Plant Weisweiler in the Rhineland, Germany

Catholic climate change activists protest German diocese’s enabling of lignite mining

Climate change

Catholics denounce “depressing and indefensible” COP climate summit results

Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of the Holy Father Francis, “Querida Amazonia” (Vatican News)

Pope’s Amazon Synod document in danger due to senior cardinals’ resistance to give up priestly celibacy

Climate activist Greta Thunberg

Vatican cardinal praises Greta Thunberg’s “coherence with Church’s teaching”

New EU Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen

Bishops welcome EU ‘Green Deal’, push Brussels harder for “real ecological conversion”

Slash and burn agriculture in the Amazon

Cardinal warns from Assisi: “Never before have the Amazon peoples and their territory been so seriously threatened”

Pope Francis meets with Jesuits in Thailand

Pope “shocked” by anti-immigration narratives in Europe, warns “populism is gaining strength”

Pope Francis in the Wednesday General Audience

Francis demands of COP25 “honesty, responsibility and courage” in climate fight

Vatican Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin

Vatican cardinal pleads with COP25 for “practical measures” on “urgent” climate crisis

Climate change crisis

Ahead of UN summit, Amazon Synod cardinals warn governments inaction on climate a “crime”

An indigenous woman at the Amazon Synod

Feminist theologian blames Church misogyny for Amazon Synod’s lack of impact on climate change