As world leaders gather in Belém, Brazil, for the COP30 climate summit, faith leaders call out the "tragic, sinful gap between the call to care for creation and the failure of governments to act."
As the Season of Creation draws to a close, I find myself pausing to notice how it invites us to renew our love and care for our world. This season also has been a time to return to a beloved poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
For decades, the Sisters of St. Joseph refused to lease land to gas companies. Now they have no choice. A new West Virginia law allows fracking against a landowner's wishes if enough neighbors agree to fracking on their land.
As climate change resilience programs struggle for funding, Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Sr. Yvonne Nwila worries that the poor in Zambia will suffer more from climate-change-induced food insecurity.
In southeastern Nigeria, better known for its sprawling markets than for environmental activism, Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of Christ, are quietly leading a grassroots movement.
Moved by the Holy Spirit, Maria Treviño uses a grassroots approach with the archdioceses of San Antonio, Austin and El Paso, Texas, to embrace the Laudato Si Action Platform.
Activists are fighting a copper mine planned for a site sacred to Apache people. "Religious freedom for Christians looks one way right now, and religious freedom for Native Americans another," said a Loretto Community co-member.
St. Benedict writes, "Let those who receive the clothing not complain about its color or coarseness, but accept what is given them." That's a hard teaching in a world like ours, where we're told to consume constantly.
