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  Church groups draft Laudato Si’ implementation strategies

  Sep 14, 2019

  Church groups met in Manila to come up with “concrete ecological actions” that will address what they described as a “climate emergency.”

  
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  Declare food and nutrition emergency, say Bishops

  Sep 14, 2019

  Catholic Bishops in Argentina are calling on the government to declare a food and nutrition emergency in response to heightened inflation and rising poverty rates.

  
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  Season of Creation spotlights threats to biodiversity

  Sep 06, 2019

  Wildfires rage in the Amazon rainforest and other parts of the globe. Up to one million species face extinction, in large part due to human activities

  
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  Pope Francis on Amazon: That forest lung is vital for our planet

  Aug 30, 2019

  Pope Francis prays that Amazon fires might be contained as possible.

  
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  Brazilian Jesuit sees burning Amazon as ‘apocalyptic, Dantesque’

  Aug 30, 2019

  The impacts of the burns fall on the entire Amazonian community of life: the vegetation, the animals, and all the people who inhabit this vast territory.

  
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  Bishops of Latin America: If the Amazon suffers, the world suffers

  Aug 27, 2019

  The Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean (CELAM) express their deep concern for destructive fires burning the world’s forests.

  
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  Does Church Teaching Change?

  Aug 23, 2019

  Despite the severe measures taken by the Holy See against exegetes and Church historians accused of being Modernists, a relatively small but well-trained number of Catholic scholars in the early decades of the twentieth century continued to apply historical modes of research and analysis to ecclesiastical texts and to problems in Church practice.

  
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  Does Church Teaching Change?

  Aug 16, 2019

  In Italy by the middle of the fifteenth century, new critical methods for dealing with historical texts had developed.

  
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  Iraqi Archbishop reflects on Christian community five years after ISIS takeover

  Aug 16, 2019

  Five years on from the conquering of Christian communities in Iraq by the so-called Islamic State, Christians in the country remain at the “point of extinction,” Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil said.

  
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  Does Church Teaching Change?

  Aug 09, 2019

  Although the documents of the early councils of the Church recognised that bad customs and bad teaching had to be uprooted, which is a form of change, they most characteristically betray a sense of continuity with previous Christian teaching and practice.