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Home: Current Issues: Environment Current Issues: EnvironmentArticles:A closer look at the pope's environmental message - Colleen Carroll CampbellAfter months of focusing on the potential cost overruns and possible crowd shortfalls of World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia, journalists covering the event last week suddenly started praising Pope Benedict XVI's charms and rapport with the young. Read more... 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. Read more... Another Green Revolution - Bjorn LomborgGenetically modified food offers hope for the world’s malnourished. Read more... 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. Read more... 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? Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... Fickle Gods of Global Warming - Rex MurphyI believe there's a God, and while it is legendarily difficult to pronounce on such questions, I believe he lives in Texas or Fort McMurray. It's one or the other. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 01-Jun-2009 - 15:55:31
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