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Excerpts from Pope Francis encyclical on the environment
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Pope Francis on Thursday issued a major encyclical on the environment, called "Laudato Si (Praise Be), On the Care of Our Common Home". Here are some key excerpts from the official English version: ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS CAUSES "In recent decades this warming has been accompanied by a constant rise in the sea level and, it would appear, by an increase of extreme weather events, even if a scientifically determinable cause cannot be assigned to each particular phenomenon. Humanity is called...
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Pope Francis Uses Encyclical Deliver Moral Message On Climate Change
2015-06-18 23:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: The words from Pope Francis today are urgent and direct. He released his much-anticipated encyclical on the environment and climate change. Francis says our common home is sick, burdened and laid waste, and he's calling for an active response to a global crisis. The pope is directing this encyclical not just to Catholics, but as he puts it, to every person living on this planet. To talk more about Pope Francis's message, we called on John Carr. He directs Georgetown University's...
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Papal Encyclical Affirms Vocational Approach to Agriculture, Says Director of Catholic Rural Life
2015-06-18 22:41:22| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2015 Contacts: Andrew Jerome, NFU, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org Jonathan Leidl, Catholic Rural Life, 651-895-4439 jonathan@catholicrurallife.org WASHINGTON (June 18, 2015) Pope Francis’ widely-anticipated teaching document on environmental concerns, Laudato Si’, was published today, with big implications for farming and food production. “This encyclical underscores how farming isn’t solely an economic endeavor,” said Jim Ennis,
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Pope Francis Calls For Urgent Action On Climate Change In Encyclical
2015-06-18 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Pope Francis has delivered a scathing indictment of the global economy. In his long-awaited encyclical on the environment, officially released today, he blames consumerism for the degradation of the planet. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli says the document is both a call for immediate action to stop global warming and a cry for justice for the poor. SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE: Taking his cue from his namesake, Saint Francis, the pope refers poetically to the planet as, our sister, Mother...
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Ideology Subsumes Empiricism in Pope's Climate Encyclical
2015-06-18 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Religion and science are at best strange bedfellows, as the Catholic Church has found since the time of its unfortunate experience with Galileo. So it is significant that Pope Francis, who has shown great appetite for departing from some of the harsh rhetoric and methods of his predecessors, is issuing an encyclical on the environment at a time when the world's leaders are once again considering a global approach to dealing with climate change. Whenever religious figures enter into a debate on...
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