Second Sunday of Easter
This week’s reflection is written by Sr. Mary Ann Smith, who spent many years as a missioner in the Philippines.
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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
Shareholder advocacy on climate continues
Shareholder advocacy calling on corporations to be accountable for their GHG emissions and to take steps to address climate change continues.
Slowing climate change by working less
To adequately address the climate crisis, a vast global mobilization is needed to urgently and radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate: Carbon pricing controversy
As the EU seeks ways to reform the Emissions Trading System, and the U.S. considers implementing a similar system, it is important to identify the failures of market-based solutions to climate change.
Climate: Rally to challenge Keystone XL
The following report was written by Sr. Mary Ann Smith, MM, who, with other Maryknoll missioners, Affiliates and staff members from the Global Concerns office, joined a multi-faith contingent organized by Sojourners and Interfaith Power and Light at the February 17 rally on climate change in Washington, D.C., attended by tens of thousands of people.
Water: Life source, not commodity
World Water Day is March 22.
Way of the Cross for economic and ecological justice 2015
Join this year’s Economic and Ecological Way of the Cross as it moves through Washington, D.C. on Good Friday, April 3.
Sign letter to Obama, urging National Climate Summit
The following letter is being circulated by Franciscan Action Network and other U.S. Catholic organizations, urging President Obama to respond to the strong call for positive action on climate change.
Commemorate the life of Sr. Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN
February 12 marks the eighth anniversary of the death of Sr. Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN, in Brazil.
A policy agenda for President Obama’s second term from communities of faith
These policy goals are endorsed by 23 faith-based organizations and have been sent to the White House, USAID and the State Department.
Fourth Sunday of Lent
Sr. Teresa Dagdag works with the Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation Commission of the Union of Superiors General in Rome, Italy.
TODAY: Show solidarity with efforts to halt mining in Honduras
The National Coalition of Environmental Networks in Honduras is calling for urgent solidarity TODAY in order to try to halt the final debate on a mining law that does not incorporate their proposals
Pray-in for the climate
Prayer service in Washington DC for a solution to our climate crisis
A litany for ecological healing
President Obama’s second inauguration will be held on Monday, January 21, the same day that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday is observed. As we continue to witness the negative ecological impact our current economic, political and social systems inflict, the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns shares these excerpts of a litany for ecological healing prepared by Ibrahim Abdil-Mu’id Ramey for a multi-faith sunrise service that was held in April 2012 at the site of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial located at the Potomac River Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.
Climate disruption from D.C to Doha
In the January 2013 issue of Sojourners, Bill McKibben writes about the bizarre weather year those of us in the United States experienced in 2012: In the U.S. alone, 2012 brought a March heat wave which led to fires in Colorado and New Mexico, and a “derecho” storm in June that followed the east coast heat wave, leaving five million people in the mid-Atlantic region without power. July 2012 was the hottest month ever recorded in the U.S.; the Midwest’s corn and soybean crops experienced a devastating drought. The grand finale for the year was the ferocious hurricane Sandy, which slammed the Caribbean, ripped through the Chesapeake Bay area, and tore up New Jersey and New York.
Hurricane Sandy brings reminder of Fukushima
On October 29, Hurricane Sandy, after devastating the Caribbean and mid-Atlantic, wreaked havoc along its path as it swept across the states of New York and New Jersey.
Japan: A visit to Fukushima
Last November, Maryknoll Sisters Janice McLaughlin and Jean Fallon traveled to Japan, where Sr. Jean lived and worked for many decades.
Korea: Lawyer says naval base construction is illegal
The following is based on an article written by law professor Shin Yong-In and published on the website of Save Jeju Now, the campaign to end the construction of a naval base on Jeju Island, South Korea.