Environmentalism

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.