Justice

It took just four days between the creation and the revocation of the settlement named for a U.S.-born nun intended to give 73 rural families deeds to public land in Brazil's Amazon region.

Notes from the Field - Preparing for Earth Day and leaning into this year's theme, "Invest in Our Planet," I hear a call beckoning us, beckoning me, to live more sustainably.

From A Nun's Life podcasts - Sister Maxine talks with two Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose in Fremont, California, about their community's creative use of land it owns in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

In Malawi, dependence on firewood and charcoal as sources of income and for energy needs has led people in the world's fifth poorest country to chop down vast portions of the forest. To reduce deforestation, Carmelite Missionary Sisters are teaching women skills that will not further damage the forests. 

Catholic sisters and organizations are working on a just transition to a sustainable planet through actions to fight climate change and to move workers away from jobs that contribute to greenhouse-gas emissions say the transition is moral, practical and imperative.

Is the Patagonia region considered a zone to be sacrificed — to mining? For decades, there have been fires in the Argentine Patagonian Andean Mountains, in our beautiful native forests that have such wonderful biodiversity.

The Daughters of the Redeemer use produce grown on their 15 acres outside Chilanga, Zambia, to feed young students and vulnerable families, and have taken training in organic farming to villages in the area.

Instead of selling off 25 acres of prime urban real estate, the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in New Orleans went ahead with a visionary architect's plan to manage stormwater.