Environmental Justice Program

The Environmental Justice Program (EJP) seeks to educate and motivate Catholics to a deeper reverence and respect for God's creation, and to encourage Catholics to address environmental problems, particularly as they affect poor and vulnerable people. EJP acts as a resource for Catholic dioceses and state Catholic conferences, and through them Catholic parishes.

The program's distinctively Catholic foundation lies in Pope John Paul II’s 1990 World Day of Peace message and the U.S. Catholic bishops’ statement, Renewing the Earth, issued in 1991.

What's New

Call for Papers: A Catholic Consultation on Environmental Justice and Climate Change - Please help us share this Call for Papers with your contacts at local colleges and universities in your diocese and encourage scholars to submit a paper proposal by March 31, 2012.

First Fridays for Food Security - Food Insecurity and Climate Change
Join our Facebook Event!

Good Sense, Good Air: While we live we are responsible to the Lord
Keynote Address by Bishop Stephen E. Blaire, November 7, 2011

Comments on EPA Proposed Regulations on Mercury and Air Toxics Standards

Celebrate the Feast of St. Francis with these New Resources

Friending Planet Earth: Helping Youth Understand Solidarity and Sustainability in Light of Climate Change

Sustainability and Catholic Higher Education: A Toolkit for Mission Integration

St. Francis Care for Creation Award

Major Initiatives

• Climate Change Justice and Health Initiative
  
• Children's Health and the Environment Initiative

Related Campaigns/Partners

• Catholic Coalition on Climate Change. . .
• Catholic Climate Covenant. . .
  (Take the St. Francis Pledge to Care for Creation and the Poor. . . )
• Catholics Confront Global Poverty
  (Global Climate Change and our Catholic Response)