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Pontiff says clean energy is needed as climate change risks destroying humanity

More than 40 Catholic institutions will make largest ever faith-based divestment, on the anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi

Catholic order builds chapel in middle of cornfield in attempt to use religious freedom protections to block Atlantic Sunrise pipeline

Oscar-nominated actor Leonardo DiCaprio meets Pope Francis on Thursday at the Vatican to discuss their shared views on climate change. DiCaprio shows the Pope a book of 15th century artist Hieronymus Bosch’s paintings that...

Catholic leaders are pressurising the government to drop coal by working with activists and even installing solar panels on church roofs

US Catholic organisations have millions invested in oil, coal and gas but so far few dioceses have reviewed their finances in response to Pope Francis’s encyclical on climate change

Activist Naomi Klein, who is in an ‘unlikely alliance’ with Vatican on climate change, says she believes a possible divestment policy is under discussion

Pontiff’s 180-page intervention in climate change debate casts blame for ‘ecological crisis’ on the indifference of the powerful

Pontiff’s 180-page intervention in climate change debate casts blame for ‘ecological crisis’ on the indifference of the powerful

Decision by C of E to sell off investments in tar sands and coal welcomed by campaigners who say religious groups can have a far-reaching impact

Letter from religious groups in Australia and North America says it is 'immoral' to profit from fossil fuels Read the full text of the letter to the PopeReligious groups have urged Pope Francis to back a campaign to encourage...

From Thursday's Daily Telegraph Gosh, won’t it be marvellous if the next pope turns out to be black? And I’m not saying this as a Catholic or one of those earnest Lefty types who yearns for an ethnic minority figure to...

Riazat Butt visits the Benedictine nuns of the Conventus of Our Lady of Consolation, who have left their Victorian abbey in Worcestershire for an environmentally sensitive home in the North York Moors national park

Relocated nuns settle into £4.7m building that features solar panels, a woodchip boiler, rainwater harvesting and a green roofThe colours most commonly associated with nuns are black and white. The women of Stanbrook Abbey...