Brian Roewe

More than 500 of the state's scientists and religious leaders signed onto the faith and science joint appeal for climate action. Stating they were "motivated by the climate crisis," the two contingents vowed to work together to urge all sectors of civic life to take steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

During the second week of the revived Poor People's Campaign, more than 100 people participated in a Washington rally, demanding early voting, same-day registration and other safeguards to protect democracy against "surgical racism."

The bill, opposed by numerous faith groups, would have attached stricter work requirements to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and slashed funding by as much as $20 billion.

The interfaith prayer service was held as Congress considers a new farm bill that would dramatically scale back funding and access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The search process has begun for the next compliance auditor for the U.S. bishops' clergy sexual abuse policies.

The Catholic Climate Covenant's campaign aligns with the broader "We Are Still In" coalition that formed after Trump's announcement that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

Creation care teams at the parish level and larger scale, eco education groups offer Catholics ways to get started on the difficult yet critical work of reducing waste and changing culture.

Inspired by their reading of Laudato Si', Catholic communities and institutions are increasingly recognizing that reducing waste is a key way to practice their faith. They are leading by example to promote awareness of the throwaway culture.

Part One of a three-part series: Single-use plastics are a symptom of what Pope Francis calls our 'throwaway culture'; parishioners are working to reduce waste at the local level with practical, simple steps.

The mission of the Laudato Si' Project is "to restore people's connection to the natural world." To do that, it focuses on three core themes: education, stewardship and recreation.

A group of priests, religious and laypeople who support abuse survivors, known as Catholic Whistleblowers, sent a letter on Easter to the U.S. bishops' conference asking for seven reforms to the 2002 Dallas Charter and to the Essential Norms policy for handling  sexual abuse allegations.

The string of resignations comes two months after SNAP quietly settled a lawsuit with a former employee who accused the group of a "kickback" scheme where it referred abuse survivors to attorneys in exchange for donations.

Catholic students were among the organizers of more than 800 sibling marches to the national March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C. Senior Tyler White, who helped planned Portland's march, said "I was ignited."

"Bees are essential and important to life as we know it; we just don't know it. So let's learn about it," said Charlie "CharBee" Koenen, a beekeeper/enthusiast who leads lessons on bees at Marquette University.

Cardinal John Ribat has long spoken out about the impacts of climate change on the people of the Pacific islands, considered one of the ground zeros of global climate change, where rising seas have submerged portions of islands and have already led to communities relocating from their homes to nearby islands.

Thousands of students in the U.S. exited their classrooms Wednesday, marking the one-month anniversary of the Feb. 14 massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

A newly hired chief financial officer of a Catholic university outside Miami resigned Tuesday after uproar over her recent appointment to the board of the company that manufactured the weapon used in last month’s mass shooting at a Florida high school.

"The idea of arming teachers seems to raise more concerns than it addresses," said the heads of two committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

As high schoolers lead the push for gun control, among more than 100 bills idling on Capitol Hill are efforts to expand background checks, restrict some guns, and regulate flamethrowers.

About 1,000 Catholic school students took action Wednesday in Ft. Lauderdale, on behalf of the 17 people killed by a gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in nearby Parkland, Florida.