Dear Editor: You were right to highlight the upcoming encyclical by Pope Francis on ecology. Patricia Kenney (Readers’ Forum, May 23) notes that “The Vatican has been a leader in the movement to respect the environment.”
Laudato si’: Pope Francis’s Encyclical on the Environment
Water Theme Will Run Through Encyclical
Of all the injustices Pope Francis could address in the June 18 encyclical on ecology and climate, lack of access to clean water is emblematic.
Allowing a True Debate
Dear Editor: For years, Catholics in our diocese have endured insults from other Catholics who insist that, by questioning their gospel of government dependency programs and the undermining of real economic opportunity for the poor means, we do not care about the poor and that we need to be lectured on being as compassionate as […]
Christians and the Ecology
Dear Editor: Margaret Riconda (May 9) is being less than honest in associating fracking operations with low-level earthquakes in Oklahoma. Geologist Matthew Hornback, who has studied the condition for 30 years, testifying just this month before Congress, said, “We’re not talking at all about fracking, In fact, it’s disconcerting, frankly, that people keep using that term in the press.”
The Vatican and Ecology
Dear Editor: It was good to see the front-page coverage (May 9) given to Pope Francis’ eagerly awaited ecology encyclical and to the role Catholic groups are playing in the attempt to protect the environment from climate change and other kinds of degradation; I remember the excellent coverage given to the part religious groups played in the Climate March in New York City last September.
Awaiting Ecology Encyclical
Anticipation is building for Pope Francis’ upcoming statement on the environment.
Environmental Priorities
Dear Editor: The past month’s onslaught of I’m-a-Republican-so-I-despise-environmentalism letters have been as embarrassing to Catholic morality as they are ironic that these people use the term “conservative.” Recent ones have used logic so twisted that Keystone development is a solution to save “society’s soul” and cure our “love of greed, lust and power”.
Pope: It’s Time to Get Serious on Environment
Pope Francis does not pretend to have a technical solution to climate change, but he does feel a responsibility to remind Christians of their obligation to safeguard creation.
Religion and Environment
Dear Editor: It seems more political than common sense to oppose the Keystone Pipeline. Sorry to say this in a Catholic publication, but Dennis Sadowski’s (March 7) writing promotes opposition and at the same time lauds Obama. Nothing was brought out that possibly Obama is only concerned about his and his party’s political control of […]
Religion and Environment
Dear Editor: Just a thought… The Catholic environmentalists (“Catholic Leaders Oppose Keystone Pipeline” March 7) owe it to themselves and to us to delve further into the Keystone XL pipeline controversy.