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Few echo Popes environment plea in Sunday sermons

2015-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: On the first Sunday after Pope Francis issued a landmark document on the environment, Roman Catholics attending Mass in Kenya, France, Mexico, Peru and the United States said they were thankful that he was using his pulpit to address climate change, pollution and global inequality. But few priests or bishops other than in parts of Latin America used their own pulpits on Sunday to pass on the popes message, according to parish visits, interviews with Catholic leaders and reports from Catholics...

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For Faithful, Social Justice Goals Demand Action on Environment

2015-06-20 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: For an earnest young Christian named Ben Lowe, revelation came on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in Africa. A relentless warming of the lake was reducing the catch of fish, the people were going hungry and he had learned of scientific evidence that climate change was to blame. For the Rev. Brian Sauder, who grew up attending a small Anabaptist church in rural Illinois, the moment came in a college classroom. Studying the fallout from environmental degradation, he learned of poor people who had...

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Championing environment, Francis takes aim global capitalism

2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: The encyclical on the environment that Pope Francis released on Thursday is as much an indictment of the global economic order as it is an argument for the world to confront climate change. It offers blistering criticism of 21st-century capitalism, expressing skepticism about market forces, criticizing consumerism and cautioning about the costs of growth. But where Francis environmental and economic agendas meet, he leaves something of a paradox, and ammunition potentially for both sides in the...

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Excerpts from Pope Francis encyclical on the environment

2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Pope Francis on Thursday issued a major encyclical on the environment, called "Laudato Si (Praise Be), On the Care of Our Common Home". Here are some key excerpts from the official English version: ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS CAUSES "In recent decades this warming has been accompanied by a constant rise in the sea level and, it would appear, by an increase of extreme weather events, even if a scientifically determinable cause cannot be assigned to each particular phenomenon. Humanity is called...

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