Maryknoll applauds EPA regulation of carbon emissions
Maryknoll applauds the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its June 2, 2014 announcement to regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants.
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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
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Maggie Fogarty and her family lived as Maryknoll lay missioners in Bolivia.
Pentecost
Sr. Teresa Dagdag, MM recently finished her term as executive co-secretary of the Commission on Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) for the Union of Superiors General in Rome. She continues to work as a JPIC promoter in Rome.
Protect communities from destructive mining practices
In countries where Maryknollers serve such as Peru, the Philippines, and Kenya, to oppose destructive mining practices becomes an issue of life and death. Communities not only face death threats with impunity, but they also never see the economic benefits of the projects.
Fifth Sunday of Easter
This week’s scripture reflection was prepared by Kathy Seib Vargas, who served as a lay missioner in Mexico.
China: Trade growth affects environment
China has seen a huge increase in industrialization and growth in exports since joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001.
Korea: Options for peace
Why is there an Asia Pivot and why did President Obama declare the U.S. a Pacific power?
Reject and protect: Stop the Keystone XL pipeline
On April 22, an alliance of pipeline fighters — ranchers, farmers, tribal communities, and their friends — called the Cowboy Indian Alliance will ride into Washington, D.C. for the next, and perhaps final, chapter in the fight against Keystone XL.
UN: Family farming in the future
The following article by Dave Kane appeared in the March-April 2014 NewsNotes.
Keystone XL: Challenges to pipeline
John Simurdiak, a student at St. Norbert’s College who is an intern with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns this semester, prepared the following article for the March-April 2014 NewsNotes.
Philippines: Calm amidst the storm
The following piece was written by Fred Goddard, former coordinator of the Maryknoll Affiliates, and published in the March-April 2014 NewsNotes.
Fourth Sunday of Lent
Fr. Ray Finch has served as a missioner in the Andean regions of Latin America for many years, most recently in Bolivia.
Third Sunday of Lent
Sr. Helen Graham, MM is a theologian who lives and works in the Philippines.
Second Sunday of Lent
Marj Humphrey is a former Maryknoll lay missioner who served in Kenya for many years.
World Water Day 2014
March 22 is World Water Day.
Last chance to contact State Dept about Keystone XL
350.org provides this letter and link to send your comment to the State Department on the environmental impact of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
Caring for creation in a changing climate
A symposium at the Washington National Cathedral and St. Alban’s Parish Sattlerlee Hall To register, email Carol Janus: environment@cathedralcongregation.org Free admission. Pre-register by February 18 to receive a complimentary box lunch. In 2012 and 2013 millions of people were forced from their homes by floods, storms, and other weather-related disasters. Millions more were affected by…