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Catholic orders take their lead from the pope and divest from fossil fuels
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: October 31st, 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/16/catholic...
Four Australian Catholic organisations have announced they are completely divesting from coal, oil and gas in what they say is the first joint Catholic divestment anywhere in the world. The move comes as prominent Jewish rabbis, Muslim clerics, Anglican bishops and other religious leaders call on the Australian government to protect the Great Barrier Reef, stop approving coalmines and remove subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, in an open letter published by the Guardian. The divestment announcement ... and letter were coordinated by the multi-faith group the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change, in partnership with the environmental group 350.org. It comes a year after Pope Francis, in his second encyclical, Laudato Si, called on all people not just Catholics to take swift and unified global action to protect the environment and stop global warming. At the time the papal intervention was labelled explosive and the most astonishing and perhaps the most ambitious papal document of the past 100 years. The multi-faith open letter ... reads: So far, the election debates have failed to assign due priority to global warming. Neither of the major parties currently plan to wind back coal and gas mining.
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