Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’

THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE: TO WHOM DO WE LISTEN?

Dec 30, 2009

The following article is written by Fr. Kevin Dance, CP who is the Director of Passionists International at the United Nations. Below is a Cap and Trade video by “The Story of Stuff” Project which Fr. Kevin suggest is informative regarding the Cap and Trade issue. The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen broke up on ... Read more

Catholics, Climate Change and Copenhagen

Dec 11, 2009

Currently the national leaders, along with business and NGOs, are gathering in Copenhagen to move ahead on the issue of climate change (global warming) and to develop a new international agreement around this issue. It is hoped that this post-Kyoto agreement will both reduce CO2 emissions and commit to fund a global institution that will ... Read more

Passionist and Climate Change

Mar 12, 2009

It was Thomas Berry who first spoke of “The Passion of the Earth”.  Climate change is becoming the fiercest example of the suffering implied in that term.  Berry noted that the spirituality of the “memoria passionis” first expanded its range by seeing the sufferings of the poor and disenfranchised as sharing in the archetypal sufferings of ... Read more