This Earth Day saw a flowering of action to protect our common home. Apr 30, 2019 | News and Updates, UncategorizedLeaders from around the world hosted events to protect creation. We’d like to share a few of these leaders’ stories in their own words. celebration in Quito From Jackeline in Quito, Ecuador “We prayed together, starting with the verse “consider the lillies of the...
Amazon Martyr: Don Alfredo Apr 29, 2019 | News and UpdatesThis October, the Vatican will gather bishops from around the world to discuss how to protect the Amazon and its people. Sadly, the Amazon is in desperate need of protection. Scores of advocates for justice–many of them devoted to protecting both the land and the...
Applications Open: GCCM Steering Committee Apr 26, 2019 | UncategorizedThe Global Catholic Climate Movement seeks new members to serve on its Steering Committee. GCCM works within the Catholic Church to better care for our common home. Our founding document is Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change and ecology, Laudato Si’. The...
Progress for whom, and other critical questions Pope Francis insists we ask Apr 25, 2019 | BlogProgress for whom, and other critical questions Pope Francis insists we ask line up with points by and data from Jeremy Lent… In Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, published last year, Steven Pinker argues that the human...
Sacred Headwaters: Territories for Life Apr 23, 2019 | BlogIn March, leaders from the two most important Amazonian Indigenous organizations of Ecuador and Peru (CONFENIAE and AIDESEP) were joined by nearly 100 indigenous representatives from the Achuar, Shuar, Wampis, Awajun and Kichwa people in a historic Sacred Headwaters...
