St. Charles Borromeo Life & Justice Ministry

09/03/2025

01/03/2025

Environmental Inequality in Cancer Alley and Across America

Cancer Alley is the epitome of environmental inequality, but it doesn’t stand alone. Read more to see how communities are resisting environmental inequality.

12/09/2024

https://laudatosimovement.org/vigil-2025/
Usher in a change of heart with a 10-hour vigil to mark the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’. You’re welcome to join for the entire day or for any hour that moves you. Join on 25 January

08/29/2024

The Season of Creation is a time to renew our relationship with our Creator and all creation through celebration, conversion, and commitment together. During the Season of Creation, we join our sisters and brothers in the ecumenical family in prayer and action for our common home.
Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I proclaimed 1 September as a day of prayer for creation for the Orthodox in 1989. In fact, the Orthodox church year starts on that day with a commemoration of how God created the world.
The World Council of Churches was instrumental in making the special time a season, extending the celebration from 1 September until 4 October.
Following the leadership of Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I and the WCC, Christians worldwide have embraced the season as part of their annual calendar. Pope Francis made the Roman Catholic Church’s warm welcoming of the season official in 2015.
In recent years, statements from religious leaders around the world have also encouraged the faithful to take time to care for creation during the month-long celebration.
The season starts 1 September, the Day of Prayer for Creation, and ends 4 October, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology beloved by many Christian denominations.
Throughout the month-long celebration, the world’s 2.2 billion Christians come together to care for our common home.
https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/resources/season-of-creation-2024/

08/29/2024

https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/stories/when-prayer-is-not-enough/

The following blog is reposted from Marianist Encounters.

08/13/2024

The wait is over! Our 2024 Feast of St. Francis program is now available!

This year’s program is designed to assist you, your family, parish, school, diocese, religious community, or other Catholic institution celebrate the Feast of St. Francis, become instruments of God’s peace, and commit to climate actions as a way to avoid climate despair and sow climate hope.

Download this important resource here: https://catholicclimatecovenant.salsalabs.org/feastofstfrancis2024downloadform/index.html

08/04/2024

Do you remember August 2, 2018?

We do!

Six years ago today, Pope Francis ushered in the historic revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s teaching on the death penalty, officially declaring that the death penalty is “inadmissible” in all cases.

This revision was a source of momentum, for the Church and for us as we work for the abolition of capital punishment.

We’ve come a long way since then. But there’s still work to be done.

We look forward in hope to all that we will achieve in next six years.

07/30/2024

Pope Francis Prayer for Month of August

By the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostolate of Prayer): https://www.popesprayer.va To see other videos and content about the Pope’s prayer intentions,...

07/23/2024

https://catholicclimatecovenant.salsalabs.org/teilhardonlineconversationpromo1-a?

Dear Friends, We invite you to watch the two-hour PBS documentary, Teilhard: Visionary Scientist, and then join us for an August 13th online conversation (7:00-8:00 p.m. ET) with distinguished Teilhard de Chardin expert, Sr. Kathleen Duffy, SSJ. Sr. Kathleen will lead us in exploring the life and th...

07/21/2024

https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CCTLibraryCST26ClimateChange.pdf
Catholic Social Teaching and Climate Change

07/14/2024

https://justiceforimmigrants.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/NMW-Toolkit.pdf
2024 National Migration Week: September 23-29