This statement was issued by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30). It was written by Archbishop Borys Gudziak, head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in America, along with Bishop A. Elias Zaidan and Catholic Relief Services President and CEO Sean Callahan. The St. Mary of Egypt Social Justice Fellowship reads this through a distinctly Ukrainian Catholic experience—shaped by generations of environmental destruction under...

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one...

The willingness to give up one’s life to protect one’s family takes great hope: there’s something better awaiting all of us.