Environmentalism

Indigenous coalition continues challenge to mining project on religious liberty grounds

Kate Scanlon · April 24, 2026

An Indigenous coalition filed an updated lawsuit in federal district court in Phoenix on April 22, their latest attempt to block a land transfer including their sacred site at Oak Flat, Arizona, and protect the site from destruction by a copper mining giant.

Cultivating a return to the land

Catholic Land Movement gaining momentum

Quinton Amundson · April 24, 2026

The captivation of homesteading has waxed and waned throughout the centuries. Today, land-based living is experiencing a revival as it’s deemed a way to reorient away from the various ills of modernity.

In Angola, Catholic Church steps in to give a voice to mining-affected communities

Josephine Peterson · April 21, 2026

As the Catholic Church’s global leadership increasingly looks to Africa as a wellspring of vitality and growth, communities across the continent are pressing it to take a clearer stand on one of their most urgent concerns: the human and environmental cost of mining.

Pope Leo donates $100K to CRS clean water project in El Salvador

Gina Christian, Marietha Góngora V. and Maria-Pia Negro Chin · April 20, 2026

Pope Leo XIV has donated $100,000 to provide access to clean water in El Salvador, supporting a program launched by the papal nuncio to that nation and by Catholic Relief Services, the official humanitarian and development agency of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The Mustard Seed

Renewing our gratitude for Creation’s bounty

Glen Argan · September 25, 2025

Ten years after Pope Francis’ landmark statement Laudato Si’ and 10 years after the Paris Climate Agreement that followed in the encyclical’s wake, the quest for net zero carbon emissions appears to have ground to a halt.

From a report on “climate migration”

Catholic Register Staff · August 28, 2025

Excerpt from a report on “climate migration” written by Lainie Nichols and published by Citizens for Public Justice on Aug. 21, 2025

Climate change conversion ignored

Luke Stocking · August 13, 2025

Essentially the churches in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean have raised their voice ahead of COP30, the UN Climate Conference to take place in Belem, Brazil this November. We should listen.

Nun among five arrested in Toronto climate protest

Luke Mandato · May 21, 2025

Five faith activists, including a Catholic nun, were arrested today and charged with trespassing for an early morning protest at a downtown Toronto bank.

Environmentalists the ‘new missionaries’

Activists really ‘eco-colonialists,’ Indigenous say

Anna Farrow · February 1, 2025

Three Indigenous natural resource professionals say activist environmentalists are paternalistic when they claim to speak for Indigenous groups and oftentimes hold priorities at odds with the best interests of those communities.