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Pope says global leaders must take care of environment, remember poor

August 26, 2009
By Bryon Cones
Catholic News Service

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI urged world leaders to address global environmental issues “with generous courage” and reminded them that the world’s resources are to be shared by all, including poorer countries.

The pope, speaking Aug. 26 at the summer papal residence outside Rome, addressed his...

Biofuel production 'exacerbating' climate change, says Christian Aid

August 17, 2009
By Jennifer Gold
Christian Today

Western governments are pouring billions of dollars into the production of biofuels with dubious benefits for the climate, warns Christian Aid.

In a new report out today, the aid agency said that the massive subsidies and quotas set by governments to finance biofuels had proved “disastrous”.

Eco-Islam

July 31, 2009
Living on Earth
Distributed by Public Radio International

Green is the color of the conservation movement, and the traditional color of Islam. At a recent conference in Istanbul, Islamic scholars from all over the Muslim world gathered under an especially green banner to talk about climate change. Mahmoud Akef (MAHMOOD AKEEF) organized the conference, and...

Pope cites Teilhardian vision of the cosmos as a 'living host'

July 28, 2009

Anglican and Roman Catholic leaders say the market is lacking morals

July 12, 2009
Larry B. Stammer
LA Times

In the midst of a global recession, religious leaders are looking beyond the recent regulatory fixes and bailouts aimed at repairing an ailing financial system.

They are questioning the underlying assumptions of a market economy that they say has lost its moral bearings.

Last week, Pope Benedict XVI issued an encyclical,...

Catholicism as Antidote to Turbo-Capitalism

July 12, 2009
Carter Dougherty
New York Times

MUNICH — The collapse of Communism in the East two decades ago did not provide much of an opening for the Catholic Church to influence economic policy, but perhaps the near-collapse of Western capitalism will. Two German authors — one named Marx, the other his patron in Rome — are certainly hoping so.

New sins, new virtues

July 9, 2009
The Economist

As the world heats up and economic dislocation ravages the poor, religious leaders offer up their diagnoses and prescriptions

GLOBALISATION, technology and growth are in themselves neither positive or negative; they are whatever humanity makes of them. Summed up like that, the central message of a keenly awaited papal pronouncement on the social...

Pope proposes new financial order guided by ethics

July 7, 2009
By Nicole Winfield
Associated Press Writer

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics and the search for the common good, denouncing the profit-at-all-cost mentality blamed for bringing about the global financial meltdown.

In the third encyclical of his pontificate, Benedict pressed for reform of the...

How Confucianism could curb global warming

June 26, 2009
The Christian Science Monitor
By James Miller

How Confucianism could curb global warming

Now here’s a curveball to secular Western policy experts: China’s intellectuals are openly debating the role of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism in promoting the Communist Party’s vision of a harmonious society and ecologically sustainable economic development.

Thomas Berry (November 9, 1914 - June 1, 2009)

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