Urgent Call for Climate Action and Post-Growth Economy
Leaders of Catholic development agencies respond to IPCC report.
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Environmental Justice
Climate change is at the center of the environmental challenges facing the global community. Maryknoll missioners around the world witness firsthand the devastating impacts of the changing climate, most egregiously on those who have contributed least to climate change, communities that are poor, powerless, and pushed to the margins by society.
We educate for environmental justice by first clarifying and deepening our own comprehension of these insights: that every creature has the right to be; the right to its habitat; and the right to make its own contribution to all of life. We believe that the global failure to protect our Common Home has become, in reality, a simultaneous assault on the poor and a form of environmental racism.
Maryknoll Leadership Statement on Pope Francis’ encyclical “On Care for Our Common Home“
MARYKNOLL REFLECTIONS ON LAUDATO SI: Ecological conversion: Called to hope, spurred to action
POLICY BRIEF: Climate Change and Care for Creation
WEBINAR: Climate Change and the 2020 Elections
ARTICLE: Maryknoll Missioners Take Climate Action
SPECIAL PROGRAM: Integral Ecology Program
NEWSLETTER: Encounters Where Faith, Economy, Ecology Meet
Join the Season of Creation
September 1 begins the month-long “Season of Creation” in Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, and Anglican churches worldwide. From September 1 to October 4 – the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi – let us pray for guidance, examine our lifestyles and the way they impact the environment, and act boldly to care for Creation. Listen to Pope Francis invite us to…
Join the Season of Creation, Sept 1 – Oct 4
Pray with us, make personal commitments, and take action.
Fossil fuel divestment: Learning from others
This article is the third and final in a series designed to educate Catholic organizations about ways to participate in the fastest growing divestment campaign in human history – the fossil fuel divestment movement.
Speak out about EPA’s proposed pollution rules
Write a letter to the editor of your local paper.
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Judy Coode, former communications director for the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns and current project coordinator for the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, a project of Pax Christi International, reflects on the daily spiritual act of breaking bread and sharing a meal.
Peru: Org. founded by Maryknoll Sr. Patricia Ryan wins human rights award
Congratulations to Maryknoll Sr. Patricia Ryan and Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente (DHUMA), on being named the 2018 recipients of the Letelier-Moffitt International Human Rights Award.
Latin America: Call for ecological conversion
The following article was published by Development and Peace Caritas Canada on May 10, 2018 and entitled “Latin American bishops make urgent call for an ecological conversion in new pastoral exhortation.”
Fossil fuel divestment: Ways to go about it
This is the second in a series of articles designed to educate Catholic organizations about ways to participate in the fastest growing divestment campaign in human history – the fossil fuel divestment movement.
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Maryknoll Sister Helen Graham, on mission in the Philippines for more than 50 years, reflects on the question “Where is God?” when disaster strikes.
Paris Climate Agreement: Join ‘Catholics Are Still in’ Campaign
Together we can move the U.S. to do it’s part.
Youth Climate March
“Zero Hour is a youth-led movement creating entry points, training, and resources for new young activists and organizers (and adults who support our vision) wanting to take concrete action around climate change. Together, we are a movement of unstoppable youth organizing to protect our rights and access to the natural resources and a clean, safe,…
The case for Catholic fossil fuel divestment
This is the first in a series of articles designed to educate Catholic organizations about ways to participate in the fastest growing divestment campaign in human history – the fossil fuel divestment movement.
Celebrate Earth Day with Prayer and Action
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Scripture Reflection Guides
Come pray, study, and act with us. The guides contain reflections, prayers, questions, testimony from Maryknoll missioners, and suggested actions for each week of Lent and Advent.
Exploring Our Call in Caring for Creation February 2018
A meditation on the eagle and transformation of consciousness.
Catholic institutions divest from fossil fuels
Catholic institutions are divesting from fossil fuel companies and investing in renewable energy as part of their response to the urgent call Pope Francis sounded in Laudato Si’ and in response to the statement by Catholic Bishops from all continents at the Paris climate talks in 2015.
Earth Day
From the Global Catholic Climate Movement: Earth Day is April 22. This year, that falls on a Sunday. We’re raising a united Catholic voice to make the most of this moment. Get in the Loop GCCM is creating a complete resource kit for Earth Day to help your community celebrate, advocate, and educate for creation….