Brian Roewe

If it's summer, it probably means gas prices are on the rise along with the temperatures. And how consumers respond can have consequences for government action on climate change.

The "Laudato Si' and the U.S. Catholic Church" conference, being held virtually July 13-15, aims to raise ambition and action within the U.S. church in responding to Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment.

The NCR Publishing Company has separated its multimillion-dollar investment portfolio from financial holdings in the fossil fuel sector. New board guidelines also encourage investments in renewable energy.

In the face of global environmental threats, Jesuit colleges must provide education aimed at creating a more sustainable world, Nancy Tuchman of Loyola Chicago's School of Environmental Sustainability told a recent conference.

The June 15 virtual gathering marked the 25th anniversary of a program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that has sought to foster engagement among scientists and people of faith.

Bishops urge leaders to support a sustainable recovery from the pandemic, ensure fair access to vaccines and move quickly to halt biodiversity loss and meet Paris Agreement goals.

The "100 Leaders for 100% Clean Energy" event was the start of an escalated push by environmental groups to press Congress to support Biden's ambitious infrastructure plan and a clean electricity standard.

Japanese automaker Nissan presented the Vatican with its all-electric Leaf sedan at a ceremony on June 5, World Environment Day. The gift aimed to help the Vatican in its goal to gradually replace its fleet of service vehicles with electric alternatives.

Hundreds of people and Catholic organizations are part of a broad, worldwide consultation with the Vatican to offer feedback and fine-tune the Laudato Si' Action Platform before its full launch in October.

'The current environmental situation calls us to act with urgency,' Pope Francis says at the start of the U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

Catholic and other shareholder activists see one of Big Oil's worst days as a big victory and sign of a potential sea change in their decadeslong push for fossil fuel companies to address their central contribution to climate change.

The Vatican's long-awaited program for putting Pope Francis' ecological encyclical into action throughout the church debuted May 25, with the pope inviting all Catholics on a journey "to create the future we want."

A newly launched network hopes to channel prayer to heal the planet in the face of rising global temperatures and declining biodiversity, and inspire people of faith to work to reverse both problems.

An official in the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development urged Catholic institutions around the world to divest from fossil fuels, calling it a moral and theological imperative.

The U.S. bishops' conference is reviewing its socially responsible investment guidelines, a process that could result in the first update since 2003. The current document offers little direction on fossil fuels.

The Global Catholic Climate Movement champions fossil fuel divestment within the church, and its campaign has played a key role in making Catholic institutions among the most numerous in the divestment movement.

An online conference May 15 by the nonpartisan Citizens Climate Lobby, which has pushed for years for Congress to put a price on carbon, was aimed at Catholics, whose principles mesh with the lobby's values, organizers said.

The 2021 Laudato Si' Week events will celebrate the church's progress on the landmark 2015 encyclical and inspire deeper engagement around conservation, sustainability and changing the current trajectory of global warming.

Sen. Raphael Warnock believes that President Biden's $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan is just the project to both build a clean energy economy and also repair national rifts along the way.

Nearly 90% of students voting in a referendum at Marquette University want the Jesuit school to divest its $693 million endowment from stocks in the fossil fuel industry.