Category: Environment
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Listen to the cry of creation: Leo
Today, we are invited to listen attentively to the cry of creation,” Pope Leo wrote in a message to a Scouts and Guides jamboree at Jambville, France. “This urgency is imposed on all humankind, to whom God has entrusted his work.”
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NT uranium ban remains
The decision made by Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) Government to deny the renewal of a mining lease for the Jabiluka uranium deposit beneath Kakadu National Park has been described as “historic.”
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Enquiry: The challenge of drought
Fr Filippo Perin, 52, is a missionary in Ethiopia’s Gambella region on the border with South Sudan, Vatican News reports. A beautiful land where, however, there is no water; the people are starving and the climate is unbearable.
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Building a fraternal and caring economy
In Sicily, Paola Gurrieri, together with her brothers, heads La Mediterranea, a leader in the cultivation of chrysanthemums, Cecilia Seppia from Vatican News reports.
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Save our suffering planet: Pope Francis’ appeal
In one of the most powerful and hard-hitting documents of his pontificate, Pope Francis has challenged humanity to address the “indubitable impact of climate change” on “our suffering planet” that he fears will devastate the lives of people around the world, and particularly the poorest.
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Video: Laudate Deum
Following on from his 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’, Pope Francis published a new apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum, on 3 October 2023.
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Webinar: Laudato Deum
Our next ACI webinar on Tuesday 10 October 2023 will focus on Pope Francis’ newly announced apostolic exhortation, Laudato Deum, which is due to be published on 4 October.
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Young people are the change we need: Pope Francis
Young people embody the change that we all need, Pope Francis writes in the preface to an book by Gaël Giraud and Carlo Petrini entitled “The taste to change. The ecological transition as the path to happiness”
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Webinar: Cathonomics: Creating a more just economy
Irish-born American economist, Tony Annett, will present the next ACI webinar on Saturday 13 April addressing the theme “Cathonomics: How Catholic tradition can create a more just economy,” the title of his recent book.
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Stubborn man does not “see” climate change: Pope
Leaders have moral responsibility when making decisions, Francis says