Pax Christi International participated in Taproot Earth’s Jubilee Convening on Global Climate Reparations in Rome from 2–7 March 2025.
Believing that Pope Francis’ leadership on climate justice, debt abolition, care for creation, and the rights of migrants – and his call for the Jubilee – opened a door to advance global climate reparations within the Church, Taproot Earth gathered visionary leadership from multi-racial frontline communities around the world with leaders from Catholic organisations, including many who have participated in Pax Christi International’s Catholic Nonviolence Initiative (CNI), to articulate with respect a call to the Catholic Church for climate reparations as part of Taproot Earth’s Global Climate Reparations Initiative.
Taproot Earth is committed to addressing the root causes of the climate crisis by emphasising solidarity, abundance and love – by embracing solutions rooted in community and justice, restoring power to people, community to community and region to region, repairing generational harms of environmental racism through collective governance to protect what is sacred and to help marginalised and frontline communities thrive.
Marie Dennis, former CNI director said, “It was an honour to participate in such a creative and thoughtful process that explored with honesty the historical violence perpetrated by the Church, including through the Doctrine of Discovery, and, at the same time, recognised the visionary leadership of Pope Francis and the deep commitment of many Catholic communities, organisations and individuals to racial and climate justice. I am grateful to have been included. To center nonviolence in Church teaching and practice would be a significant step toward the deep transformation envisioned by Taproot Earth and so desperately needed in our hurting world.”
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