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How climate-change doubters lost papal fight
2015-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Pope Francis was about to take a major step backing the science behind human-driven global warming, and Philippe de Larminat was determined to change his mind. A French doubter who authored a book arguing that solar activity -- not greenhouse gases -- was driving global warming, de Larminat sought a spot at a climate summit in April sponsored by the Vaticans Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Nobel laureates would be there. So would U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, U.S. economist Jeffrey Sachs...
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Papal Encyclical Affirms Vocational Approach to Agriculture, Says Director of Catholic Rural Life
2015-06-18 22:41:22| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2015 Contacts: Andrew Jerome, NFU, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org Jonathan Leidl, Catholic Rural Life, 651-895-4439 jonathan@catholicrurallife.org WASHINGTON (June 18, 2015) Pope Francis’ widely-anticipated teaching document on environmental concerns, Laudato Si’, was published today, with big implications for farming and food production. “This encyclical underscores how farming isn’t solely an economic endeavor,” said Jim Ennis,
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On planet in distress, a papal call to action
2015-06-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Pope Francis has written the first papal encyclical focused solely on the environment, attempting to reframe care of the earth as a moral and spiritual concern, and not just a matter of politics, science and economics. In the document, Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home, he argues that the environment is in crisis cities to oceans, forests to farmland. He emphasizes that the poor are most affected by damage from what he describes as economic systems that favor the wealthy, and political...
U.S. Ag Leaders to Explore Papal Encyclicals Connection to Farming at International Symposium
2015-06-17 20:16:42| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 17, 2015 Contacts: Andrew Jerome, NFU, 202.314.3106 ajerome@nfudc.org Jonathan Liedl, Catholic Rural Life, 651.895.4439 jonathan@catholicrurallife.org The event, which will be held in Milan from June 27-28, is part of a larger project on how faith traditions can inform solutions to modern agricultural challenges. MILAN, ItalyWhat does Pope Francis have to do
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Political fallout predicted from papal letter climate change
2015-03-09 04:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Trib: Alfred Cipriani considers Pope Francis the right pope for the right time but believes his much-anticipated papal letter on the environment will stray into an area better left to others. My problem with him talking about the environment is I don't think he has the whole story, said Cipriani, 64, of Greensburg, who attends St. Bartholomew's Catholic Church in the village of Crabtree. I don't think it will have any impact on the people in the pews. Pope Francis, who plans to release a letter...
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