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Home: Current Issues: Environment Current Issues: EnvironmentArticles:A Word About Sparrows: Evangelizing the Animal Rights Movement - HELEN M. VALOISLike all errors, the animal rights movement contains elements of truth. Like the feminists who represent themselves as opposed to rape, unequal wages, and (until recently) sexual harassment in the workplace, the animal rights activists lead with issues we can all agree on. Email This Article Catholicism and the Natural World - THOMAS STORCKFew Catholics seem aware that there is an authoritative Catholic teaching regarding our proper attitude and conduct toward the environment. In this, as in so many other areas, it seems that the Devil sponsors two opposite errors, two competing outlooks, both of which are wrong. Email This Article Christian Stewardship What God Expects from Us - Philip C.L. GrayWhat is Christian stewardship? How can I be a faithful steward of God's gifts? Email This Article Cornwall Declaration - Acton InstituteAs concerns about the environment have grown in recent decades, the moral necessity of ecological stewardship has become increasingly clear. At the same time, however, certain misconceptions about nature and science, coupled with erroneous theological and anthropological positions, impede the advancement of a sound environmental ethic. Email This Article Eating our Friends - Roger ScrutonThe consensus among the monotheistic religions has been that animals exist for our purposes and that we are entitled to use them, domesticate them and eat them, subject only to God's inscrutable dietary laws. Email This Article From Environment to Environmentalism - REV. JOSEPH M. DE TORREA danger comes when a natural moral concern for the environment, as God's entrustment to man, turns into a cult or worship of the environment itself—an environmentalism. Email This Article Girl Fish, Boy Fish, ‘It’ Fish - Donald DeMarcoI have a friend in Quebec who wrote to Canada’s top environmental guru, David Suzuki, asking him to consider how the “moral environment” impacts on the “material environment,” a point that is missing from Suzuki’s voluminous statements about the environment. Email This Article Global Warming and Pagan Emptiness - Cardinal George PellIn the debate over the theory of global warming, Cardinal George Pell of Sydney is a decided skeptic. Email This Article Hug the Earth, kill the humans - Barbara KayIn reaction to the March 29 maritime deaths of four seal hunters, Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society chief, declared the deaths of seals a "greater tragedy." Email This Article Is environmentalism the new religion? - Joseph BreanIn his new book Apollo’s Arrow, ambitiously subtitled The Science of Prediction and the Future of Everything, Vancouver-based author and mathematician David Orrell set out to explain why the mathematical models scientists use to predict the weather, the climate and the economy are not getting any better, just more refined in their uncertainty. Email This Article Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 13-Jun-2008 - 18:58:52
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