Brian Roewe

Heads of nine African American studies programs at Catholic universities are calling their institutions to "conversion" to take meaningful actions to address systemic racism and more fully support people of color on their campuses.

Robert Bullard is no stranger to how racism pollutes everyday life in America. The professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Houston's Texas Southern University has watched closely as America again confronts its long record on racism. His decades of study make it clear that racism goes deeper than policing — it plays out in housing, food access, development and the environments where we live.

Sixteen U.S. congregations of Dominican Sisters have pooled more than $46 million to establish a new investment funds initiative aimed at financing solutions to address climate change.

EarthBeat Weekly: The cry of "I can't breathe" should never be heard again, whether because of racist actions or unhealthy air, water and land, religious leaders say.

With one tweet, President Donald Trump introduced Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to a wider audience Wednesday night and returned the controversial Italian prelate into the fray of American politics.

Some chanted. Some dialogued. Still others formed a counterprotest, skeptical of the march as just a gesture and not a step toward the sweeping reforms to address systemic racism in America.

Burning Question: The Amazon synod raised "ecological sin" within the church. But what does it even mean?

Catholics across the world have embraced and acted on environmental encyclical Laudato Si'. But the consensus among Catholic ecological leaders is those responses have been not nearly as widespread as Francis sought.

At the beginning of Laudato Si' Week, 42 faith institutions committed to divest their finances from fossil fuels, and called for post-pandemic economic recovery to shift the world toward a low-carbon future.

With its 'Laudato Si' Action Platform,' the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development is proposing that Catholic communities across the world work toward "total sustainability" in the coming decade.

Festivities to mark the five-year anniversary of Pope Francis' landmark encyclical on the environment begin this weekend. The theme is "everything is connected," and more than 100 Catholic organizations worldwide have signed on as partners.

Carol Raymond's mask helps prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. But it doesn't block her from listening, a skill critical in spiritual care, especially now.

Impacts of the virus on the country's youngest generations have come clearer into view, from dealing with feelings of loneliness and restlessness while social distancing, to facing long-term economic effects.

An oil drilling facility in a south-central Los Angeles neighborhood is on the verge of being permanently shut down, representing a long-sought victory for residents but one with virtually no assistance from the local archdiocese, which owns and leases the land.

EarthBeat Weekly: Concerns about spreading the coronavirus has led restaurants and grocery stores to turn to disposable items over reusable alternatives.

People across the world logged onto their computers to follow along with livestreams and join virtual meetings to take part in the annual Earth Day, dedicated to protecting our common planetary home.

An estimated 20 million Americans took part in the first Earth Day in 1970. Scattered among them were many Catholics and people of faith, and EarthBeat hears some of their stories, 50 years later.

Parishes and Catholic organizations have been among the hundreds of thousands of small businesses and nonprofits that have rushed to the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program.

The Chicago Archdiocese made clear that its guidelines did not pertain to emergency baptism: They did not supersede church law that permits any person to conduct the rite "in cases of urgent necessity, when only those things required for the validity of the sacrament must be observed."

Catholic groups urge governments to still put forward new emissions targets required this year under the Paris Agreement.