via Vatican News: Pope Francis marked the Day on Friday with a message to the Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, José Graziano da Silva. “Water is an essential asset for the equilibrium of ecosystems and human survival, and it must be managed and cared for so that it is not polluted… Read More Pope: Access to Water is a Fundamental Human Right
via CNS: Unborn children would face greater health risks if the Environmental Protection Agency moves to rescind a rule regulating hazardous air pollutants emitted by power plants, said the chairmen of two U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committees. The bishops argued in a March 22 statement that the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, or MATS,… Read More US Bishops: Trump’s EPA Rule Reversal Threatens the Unborn, Pregnant Women, and More
Pope Francis: “We cannot change the world alone, but together we can spread the joy of the Gospel by staying close to those most in need.”
Dozens of Christian ethicists, including Millennial writers Marcus Mescher and Dan DiLeo, have signed a new statement on “Christian Ethics and the Ecological Emergency.” The statement begins: Human activity is now driving a complex, dynamic process of environmental destabilisation across the whole of God’s Earth, at a scale and pace unprecedented in human history. This… Read More New Statement on Christian Ethics and the Ecological Emergency
Pope Francis: “Today we think of people with #DownSyndrome. May they be welcomed, appreciated, and never discarded, right from their mother’s womb.”
Pope Francis: “There are a few who have too much, and too many who have little….Many do not have food to eat and live adrift while a few drown in excess. This perverse current of inequality is disastrous for humanity’s future.”
via the Vatican: When we speak of development we must always ask: Development of what? Development for whom? For too long the conventional idea of development has been almost entirely limited to economic growth. Indicators of national development have been based on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) indices. This has led the modern economic system down… Read More Pope Francis on Development that Responds to the Cry of the Earth and Poor
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