Any ambitious program to address climate change raises a red flag of top-down government, writes Christopher Rice, but the Green New Deal can be implemented with support for local decision-making.

Ever since the introduction of Pope Francis' encyclical, Laudato Si', five years ago, more and more dioceses are heeding his message about caring for the environment.

Earth Day was created in 1970 by Democratic Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin.

Last November, 85.8 percent of voting students—2,438 in total—supported a nonbinding referendum that urged university trustees to sell off the then-10.6 percent of the university endowment that was invested in fossil fuel corporations by 2025.

The project is poised to utilize the energy of young Catholics, many of whom are deeply concerned about the threats that climate change poses to the planet and, by extension, to human dignity.

In Australia, priests are joining in the effort to combat the devasting bushfires that have swept the country.