Environment

Water projects, respect for women create sustainability in India's tribal villages

Sep 5, 2019

Nearly 10,000 people living in eight villages in northwestern India have found new meaning in their lives after the intervention of the Missionary Sisters, Servants of the Holy Spirit in 2012. Through water projects, micro-loans, farming diversity and other means, the nuns not only checked migration to cities but also fought several social evils that subjugated women, such as child marriage.

Q & A with Sr. Marva Hoeckelman, observer for the National Weather Service

by Georgia Perry

Aug 6, 2019

As a volunteer observer for the U.S. National Weather Service, Benedictine Sr. Marva Hoeckelman records temperatures each day at South Dakota's Mother of God Monastery. The work is simple but profound for Hoeckelman, who also writes nature poetry.

Evolution is our fundamental reality

by Ilia Delio

Jul 15, 2019

We are living in the midst of several major crises, including the environment and the institutional church. Does academic theology play a role? Well, yes. As co-creators, we can begin to better integrate theology and science.

Reflections on the burning cathedral

by Joan Brown

Jul 3, 2019

Our Earth is burning. Our sacred "Sister Mother Earth who sustains and governs us" is on fire. We see the sacred spires of trees in the Amazon falling to fire, the baptismal fonts of rivers and lakes languishing in drought and pollution, the daily eucharistic altars of family tables in Honduras, Salvador and Guatemala empty of food for children, and we stand before the death beds of species becoming extinct as we act as hospice-midwives.

Water projects, respect for women create sustainability in India's tribal villages

Q & A with Sr. Marva Hoeckelman, observer for the National Weather Service

Evolution is our fundamental reality

Reflections on the burning cathedral

Theology needs radical revisioning

How do you teach a 'teaching document'? Arizona high school shows how

'The religion of this people is their land,' say Sr. Dorothy Stang's successors

The legacy of Sr. Dorothy Stang

Pentecost and the language of spring

A healthy planet is the right to life

Q & A with Sr. Sheila Kinsey, advocating for Earth through Sowing Hope for the Planet

UISG leaders call for broader environmental action, clear stance on church abuse at triennial meeting

Nature my chapel, poems my psalms

Our common home in Honduras

Q & A with Sr. Jean Bellini, side by side with landless people in the heart of the Amazon region

It's all there for birds of Home Depot

Women and Earth are 'on receiving end of patriarchy' when it comes to profit

Q & A with Sr. Teresa Dagdag, caring for one Earth community

Where science warnings fail, can moral force push us out of climate inertia?

Farmers benefit from organic farming initiated by sisters

Priest contests charges related to efforts to help Amazon's landless

Convicted mastermind of Sr. Dorothy Stang's murder ordered back to prison

Pipeline struggle reveals value of community to religious congregation

Panama: Catholic sister considers dam a violation of indigenous people's right to religion

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