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
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined over a hundred international, national, regional, state and local faith groups in calling on members of congress to pass the FOREST Act of 2023, which would prevent the importation of goods produced by illegal deforestation practices.
Sr. Helen Graham, MM, considers the responsibilities we have shirked towards the earth.
Maryknoll Affiliate Marilyn Kott considers the comunal nature of our faith and spirituality.
Climate change can be reversed if we work together.
On Tuesday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight – the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been – for the second year in a row.
The 2023 Lenten Reflection Guide: Caring for Creation from the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns contains reflections, questions, prayers, fasts, and actions based on each week’s Gospel reading and the experience of Maryknoll missioners who have lived and worked with marginalized communities around the world.
Download the 14-page guide produced by the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns.
A UN conference aimed at creating an International Legally Binding Instrument for plastic waste reduction was hampered by divergent views on how to reach the destination.
Nearly every nation in the world has agreed to transition away from fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.
A first-hand account of what happened at COP28 and what comes next, from three representatives of Catholic organizations who were in Dubai for the UN Climate Conference.
Webinar on Dec. 20 at 10AM ET.
A first-hand account of what happened at the UN Climate Conference COP28 in Dubai by Lisa Sullivan, Senior Program Officer for Integral Ecology at the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns.
The following is a message from Lisa Sullivan, reporting from Dubai at the midpoint of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP 28.
James H. Kroeger, MM, shares an exposition of Pope Francis’ latest apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum, originally written for the World Mission magazine in Manila (Comboni Missionaries) 2023.
The 2023 report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that there are only six years left to make swift and dramatic action to avoid cataclysm
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, in coordination with seven other Catholic groups, delivered a letter to President Biden, Treasury Secretary Yellen, and Secretary of State Blinken bearing signatures from over a thousand Catholics, requesting that debt forgiveness and restructuring be part of COP28 climate agenda.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined Public Citizen, the AFL-CIO, Sierra Club, and 200+ Organizations to urge Biden to Terminate Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Provisions in Existing U.S. Trade and Investment Agreements. ISDS is used by corporations to litigate against government over local environmental laws.
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Peg Vamosy “what are the gifts and talents that each of us is given to administer to the best of our abilities?”
