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Pope Francis' climate change encyclical expected to make global impact
2015-05-30 23:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Haven Register: Pope Francis much anticipated encyclical about climate change will make a major impact throughout the Roman Catholic Church and beyond, propelled by the severity of the issue and the popes personal popularity, say religious and environmental leaders in Connecticut. According to Mary Evelyn Tucker, who teaches in Yales schools of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Divinity and Law, This is the most important thing that will happen in our lifetime on the environment. Tucker, a Catholic, coordinates...
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Pope Francis to issue decree on faith, climate
2015-05-24 02:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: When the Rev. Gary Padgett plans to speak on the politically charged issue of climate change to a Catholic congregation, he undertakes a delicate process. He said he avoids "talking points," keeps language ambiguous and tries to show how care for what he describes as God's creation is relevant to people's lives and faith. "I am thinking how am I going to craft my message so that it can be heard," said Padgett, the former Ascension parish priest who now heads the St. James and St. Brigid parishes...
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Pope climate change aide urges business favor planet over profit
2015-05-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Pope Francis' top aide on climate change urged businesses on Wednesday not to let the pursuit of profit get in the way of protecting the planet. The remarks came as the Vatican is due to release a papal encyclical, or formal letter, on the issue. Cardinal Peter Turkson, who helped draft the encyclical, said the paper would be presented in the second half of June, two months before the pope is due to address the U.S. Congress and a United Nations meeting on sustainable development. "Our lives...
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The pope gets it right on climate change
2015-05-17 01:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Winston-Salem Journal: Some of corporate Americas biggest climate-change deniers from Exxon-Mobil to the Koch Brothers are dreading a potent storm thats gaining strength and headed right at them. Its the category-5 Hurricane Francis, which threatens to overwhelm their flimsy ideological castles. Rather than extreme weather, this has to do with a human whos become a force of nature: Pope Francis. This summer, he intends to deliver a powerful papal encyclical putting the moral energy of the church solidly behind...
Pope Francis endorses climate action petition to world leaders
2015-05-16 18:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: The Pope has urged Catholics around the world to sign a new faith-inspired petition calling on world leaders to limit global warming to 1.5C, shortly after declaring that there is 'clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act' on climate change. Climate change hits the poorest first and hardest, and will leave an unnecessarily dire legacy for future generations. We Catholics need to step up against climate change and raise a strong voice asking political leaders to take action urgently....
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