Catholic Climate Covenant

Our Founder and Executive Director Dan Misleh says that Catholic Climate Covenant has big, big plans for 2025. To help us continue the critical work of mobilizing the U.S. Catholic community for climate action in the year ahead, please consider making a year-end gift. You can read more and give today to sow hope tomorrow here: https://lnkd.in/gf_TRQhM #EcoCatholic

All of us at Catholic Climate Covenant wish you a joyous and peaceful Christmas! May the hope of Christ’s birth fill your heart with faith and love. #EcoCatholic

Merry Christmas from Catholic Climate Covenant! Our Founder and Executive Director, Dan Misleh, thanks you for your support and commitment to caring for creation. Watch the video message here: https://lnkd.in/gFKvpb6S #EcoCatholic

The Chair of our Board of Directors, Scott Hurd, writes: "Without a doubt, 2025 will offer Catholic Climate Covenant a renewed opportunity to celebrate the gift of God’s creation and renew its efforts to protect it." As 2024 draws to a close, consider making a gift to support the important work that the coming years will require. You can give today for a just tomorrow - read more here: https://lnkd.in/gEvxwrVz #EcoCatholic

ICYMI, you can still watch the Green Saints for a Green Generation Online “Book Salon” that we co-hosted with Ignatian Solidarity Network and Laudato Si' Movement-North America last week! Learn from the editor and three chapter authors of “Green Saints for a Green Generation”, a book written by young Catholic women (scientists, sisters, theologians) on “saints”—canonized and not—who connect their faith to concern for our common home. You can watch it here: https://lnkd.in/gi6XCZip #EcoCatholic

It's not too late to check out our compilation of ecological and social-justice oriented #Advent resources! What can you do this advent season to keep creation in mind? Click around for ideas, inspiration, prayers, and activities from our partners: https://lnkd.in/gHA55-Rs #EcoCatholic

We are pleased to announce the recipients of our second round of Victory Noll Sisters small grants! This time, we sought to award a $20,000 grant to help a diocese or Catholic organization with a net zero emissions or decarbonization project. We were so impressed with this year’s applicants that we’ve decided to award TWO applicants with a $20,000 grant each. Congratulations to the Waukesha County Creation Care Network, a team of parishes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the joint team of the Archdiocese of Omaha and Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend! We are excited to follow the important work of both winners in advancing climate action and net zero emissions in their parishes and dioceses. Read more about both projects in our press release here: https://lnkd.in/dFDasqbx #EcoCatholic

Emma Heienickle, a young Catholic, climate scientist, and Common Home Corps leader says, “Because God is present in every living thing, we need to take care of all things that God knows. We need to learn to live simply and to bring more youth and young adults into the fold of Catholic Climate Covenant.” To support young adults like Emma — and to engage young people in the Church’s response to climate change as they pave the world of tomorrow — please consider making a gift this month to support our work! Read more about Emma and give today to influence tomorrow: https://lnkd.in/gHAXrRsm #EcoCatholic

Katie Z., our Communications Manager, reflects on the spirit of Christmas and leaning into a renewed commitment to care for the earth. Read more and receive your monthly dose of creation care news in our December Newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/gMnhQxzq #EcoCatholic

Inside Climate News recently featured our Founder and Executive Director, Dan Misleh, in an article on climate advocates who are leaning on spirituality amid political uncertainty and climate crisis. Dan says, “We need to stop looking at the screens, stop listening to podcasts, turn off the TV and sit in silence and search our hearts for what’s the right thing to do, and how we are to conduct ourselves in this short time we have on Earth. So the walks I take in nature, the work that we do at Catholic Climate Covenant, it’s all part of the heartwork. If we listen to our hearts, our hearts will tell us that we need to take care of God’s creation. We need our hearts to tell us that we need to be concerned about future generations. I’m a fairly new grandfather, and I fear for my granddaughter’s future because of what we’re doing to the planet. That’s heartwork.” Read more from Inside Climate News here: https://lnkd.in/eaBebnsZ and consider supporting the heartwork that we do at Catholic Climate Covenant this #GivingTuesday here: https://lnkd.in/gqhsZX9z We need you, and creation needs you. #EcoCatholic