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A closer look at the pope's environmental message - Colleen Carroll Campbell

After months of focusing on the potential cost overruns and possible crowd shortfalls of World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia, journalists covering the event last week suddenly started praising Pope Benedict XVI's charms and rapport with the young.  New  Email This Article

A Word About Sparrows: Evangelizing the Animal Rights Movement - HELEN M. VALOIS

Like all errors, the animal rights movement contains elements of truth. Like the feminists who represent themselves as opposed to rape, unequal wages, and (until recently) sexual harassment in the workplace, the animal rights activists lead with issues we can all agree on.  Email This Article

Catholicism and the Natural World - THOMAS STORCK

Few Catholics seem aware that there is an authoritative Catholic teaching regarding our proper attitude and conduct toward the environment. In this, as in so many other areas, it seems that the Devil sponsors two opposite errors, two competing outlooks, both of which are wrong.  Email This Article

Christian Stewardship What God Expects from Us - Philip C.L. Gray

What is Christian stewardship? How can I be a faithful steward of God's gifts?  Email This Article

Cornwall Declaration - Acton Institute

As concerns about the environment have grown in recent decades, the moral necessity of ecological stewardship has become increasingly clear. At the same time, however, certain misconceptions about nature and science, coupled with erroneous theological and anthropological positions, impede the advancement of a sound environmental ethic.  Email This Article

Eating our Friends - Roger Scruton

The consensus among the monotheistic religions has been that animals exist for our purposes and that we are entitled to use them, domesticate them and eat them, subject only to God's inscrutable dietary laws.  Email This Article

From Environment to Environmentalism - REV. JOSEPH M. DE TORRE

A danger comes when a natural moral concern for the environment, as God's entrustment to man, turns into a cult or worship of the environment itself—an environmentalism.  Email This Article

Girl Fish, Boy Fish, ‘It’ Fish - Donald DeMarco

I have a friend in Quebec who wrote to Canada’s top environmental guru, David Suzuki, asking him to consider how the “moral environment” impacts on the “material environment,” a point that is missing from Suzuki’s voluminous statements about the environment.  Email This Article

Global Warming and Pagan Emptiness - Cardinal George Pell

In the debate over the theory of global warming, Cardinal George Pell of Sydney is a decided skeptic.  Email This Article

Hug the Earth, kill the humans - Barbara Kay

In reaction to the March 29 maritime deaths of four seal hunters, Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society chief, declared the deaths of seals a "greater tragedy."  Email This Article


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