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
Amid the violence surrounding President Duterte’s “war on drugs,” Maryknoll Sister Marvie L. Misolas continues to work in the Philippines with the Maryknoll Sisters’ Environment and Climate Change ministry. The following article was written by Sister Marvie on recent developments to securing a healthy environment in which human rights can flourish in the Philippines.
We invite you to join the World Day of Prayer for Creation and the Season of Creation.
Chad Ribordy and his family are returned Maryknoll Lay Missioners who lived and worked in Brazil.
Tell your Congressional Representatives to support funding for the Green Climate Fund for 2017.
The following is an update on the investigation into the murder of Berta Cáceres in Honduras on March 3.
Africa Faith & Justice Network (AFJN), Africa-Europe Faith and Justice Network (AEFJN), Caritas Nigeria, and Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) issued the following joint statement.
The following article examines the impact of the encyclical Laudato Si’ one year since its publication.
To all Mainers, please call Senator Collins before 2.pm today!
Father Leo Shea has served as a missioner in several locations, most recently in Jamaica.
What: Screening of The Same Heart, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Len Morris and economist Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research When: Wednesday, June 15, 6:30-8:30 pm Where: Office of Friends of the Earth–U.S., 1101 15th St, NW, 11th Floor, Washington, D.C. (corner of 15th and L, near McPherson Square…
One year ago, on June 18th 2015, Pope Francis released his historic encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for our Common Home. Laudato Si’ Week is a major international celebration to reflect on the Laudato Si’ message and take action to bring it to life. Join an event or participate in a webinar during the online Laudato Si’…
A Day of Prayer and Action for People & Planet June 12, 2016 Sacred Earth, Sacred Trust is a worldwide, multi-faith day of prayer & action for the planet and a call for world leaders to commit to a 1.5 degree limit on global temperature rise. Six months after world leaders reached the Paris Agreement,…
Maryknoll Father Steve Judd spent many years as a missioner in Peru and Bolivia.
Please join the Religious Working Group on Extractive Industries for an hour-long webinar on the human rights impacts of fracking and related infrastructure such as pipelines, storage facilities and power plants at 3 p.m. Eastern Time Monday, June 6th. This is an exciting time to be exploring these issues as thousands of people prepare…
Civil society is taking new and creative action to move governments to follow through on their commitments made in the Paris climate agreement and to do more to address the urgent need to address climate change.
The following article about Philippine church leaders launching the global call to “break free from coal” in Quezon province, dubbed as the “coal capital” of the Philippines’ island of Luzon, was published in the Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN) on April 12.
The following article examines the evidence supporting Pope Francis’ startling warning in Laudato Si’: “the warming caused by huge consumption on the part of some rich countries has repercussions on the poorest areas of the world, especially Africa, where a rise in temperature, together with drought, has proved devastating for farming.”
Maryknoll Sister Ann Braudis writes about the aspects of the encyclical of Pope Francis that are in harmony with evolutionary consciousness.
