Brian Roewe

Burning Question: The Season of Creation is a monthlong prayerful observance that calls the planet's 2.2 billion Christians to pray and care for God's creation. It is becoming more prominent, and Catholic involvement is growing. It's not just about prayer, though.

The state of the climate was spotlighted Aug. 19 at the Democratic National Convention, when speakers said the convergence of climate change, jobs and justice was key. Thursday, accepting the party's nomination, Joe Biden listed climate change among "a perfect storm" of "four historic crises" facing America at once.

The first Catholic Energies project was in Virginia, in the Richmond Diocese. Of the 22 solar installations in all the program expects to have completed by the end of the year, 10 are in the Old Dominion.

A new campaign, called "Amazoniza-te," or "Amazonize yourself," seeks to raise awareness of the many ways that COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, endangers communities and forests in the globally critical biome.

The U.S. bishops' domestic anti-poverty program approved a $500,000 national grant to assist low-income people in the Southeast "to overcome the impacts and address the root causes of climate change." 

Faith leaders criticized final rules issued this week from the Trump administration to limit federal environmental reviews, arguing that they ignore "bedrock" purposes of environmental protection and will limit input from the communities most affected by major infrastructure and energy projects.

In June 2014, the University of Dayton ventured into fairly uncharted territory for a Catholic college, much less any U.S. academic institution. Now the university has been completely divested from fossil fuels for more than three years.

Catholic leaders in the Amazon formed a new church body that will head up implementing the proposals put forward last year at the Vatican's special synod on the Amazon.

Alumni and current students of the University of Notre Dame's Catholic education program are calling for reforms to better equip future teachers to understand and address issues of race, power and privilege in the classroom.

Heads of nine African American studies programs at Catholic universities are calling their institutions to "conversion" to take meaningful actions to address systemic racism and more fully support people of color on their campuses.

Robert Bullard is no stranger to how racism pollutes everyday life in America. The professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Houston's Texas Southern University has watched closely as America again confronts its long record on racism. His decades of study make it clear that racism goes deeper than policing — it plays out in housing, food access, development and the environments where we live.

Sixteen U.S. congregations of Dominican Sisters have pooled more than $46 million to establish a new investment funds initiative aimed at financing solutions to address climate change.

EarthBeat Weekly: The cry of "I can't breathe" should never be heard again, whether because of racist actions or unhealthy air, water and land, religious leaders say.

With one tweet, President Donald Trump introduced Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to a wider audience Wednesday night and returned the controversial Italian prelate into the fray of American politics.

Some chanted. Some dialogued. Still others formed a counterprotest, skeptical of the march as just a gesture and not a step toward the sweeping reforms to address systemic racism in America.

Burning Question: The Amazon synod raised "ecological sin" within the church. But what does it even mean?

Catholics across the world have embraced and acted on environmental encyclical Laudato Si'. But the consensus among Catholic ecological leaders is those responses have been not nearly as widespread as Francis sought.

At the beginning of Laudato Si' Week, 42 faith institutions committed to divest their finances from fossil fuels, and called for post-pandemic economic recovery to shift the world toward a low-carbon future.

With its 'Laudato Si' Action Platform,' the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development is proposing that Catholic communities across the world work toward "total sustainability" in the coming decade.

Festivities to mark the five-year anniversary of Pope Francis' landmark encyclical on the environment begin this weekend. The theme is "everything is connected," and more than 100 Catholic organizations worldwide have signed on as partners.