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
On October 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis released Laudate Deum, a follow-up to his landmark encyclical Laudato Si’. Here are some points in Laudate Deum that stood out to us.
Pope Francis wrote in his recent apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum about his concerns for the climate and hopes for action at the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai in December.
Church and community leaders in Latin America met in Panama to strengthen their efforts to protect communities from exploitative extractive industries.
In advance of the 2023 UN Conference on climate change
Click here to sign the faith letter to world leaders asking for a robust Loss and Damage Fund. One great injustice of the climate crisis is the fact that poor…
Key points from the follow-up to Laudato Si’
Today, on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis released Laudate Deum (Latin for “Praise God”), an eagerly anticipated follow-up to his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’.
Key points from the follow-up to Laudato Si’
The second MISA Newsletter features stories of favorable court rulings, over 60 arrests, and political machinations
Midway to 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals of 2015 are woefully behind schedule.
The Season of Creation is a time in which Christians around the world join in prayer and action for our common home.
Indigenous peoples join presidents of Amazon nations in pledge to protect the rainforest.
A voice from the Caribbean island of Barbados offers a plan to save the broken global financial system.
The first climate change lawsuit to go to trial is now the first climate change lawsuit victory.
The thirty-seven Tanzanian bishops object to the government’s business dealings with the United Arab Emirates.
First-hand insights into the current events in both Ngorongoro and Loliondo, as well as other areas facing land dispossession by the government of Tanzania.
The document, signed by the 37 bishops of Tanzania, rebukes the government’s undemocratic deals with the United Arab Emirates for not considering the resulting harm to the people. In particular, it mentions the Maasai communities of Loliondo, “whose cultural and social rights have been violated.”
The United Nations is calling on world leaders to take real steps to lead us off fossil fuels to protect people and the planet. On September 20th in New York,…
