Brian Roewe

Kansas City

Environment Correspondent at National Catholic Reporter

Environment correspondent for @NCRonline, on the EarthBeat (@EarthBeatNCR). Perpetually wary of ringwraiths, ready for baseball. We went Blues.

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Articles

In Kentucky coal country, Laudato Si' call takes shape in parish environmental plans

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Brian Roewe

13 hours agoKids' breakfast cereals have been getting more unhealthy, study findsBreakfast cereal is often appealing for being easy, kid friendly — and sweet. But a recent study found that children's breakfast cereals have been …15 hours agoStudy shows employees assigned more complex projects early in their work history had better career outcomesEmployees' early work experiences in an organization can significantly affect their socialization.
'A pope in muddy boots': Viral photos of Leo XIV reveal a history of pastoral care

2 weeks ago | ncronline.org | Brian Roewe

The photo shows a man wearing a simple, short-sleeved white shirt and gray pants with a bishop’s cross around his neck standing in floodwaters up to the shins of his black rubber boots. A somber look rests on his face as he scans a village inundated with high brown water. In another photo, his head hangs low as he walks with two men and a woman down a street turned canal.
Federal court pauses transfer of Oak Flat sacred site to mining company

3 weeks ago | ncronline.org | Brian Roewe

A federal judge in Phoenix paused a land transfer of 2,400 acres — including the centuries-old Western Apache sacred site, Oak Flat — to a foreign mining company while the U.S. Supreme Court considers a separate appeal on religious protection grounds.
Before he was pope, Leo XIV said it's time for action on climate change

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Brian Roewe

The world is still getting to know Pope Leo XIV, and that includes where he stands on environmental issues like climate change. Even with few details, environmentalists both within and outside the Catholic Church seem optimistic based on what they have learned so far about Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, the Augustinian friar and first successor to St. Peter from the United States.
Choice of 'Leo' as new pope's name is likely no surprise for some

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Catherine M. Odell |Heidi Schlumpf |Brian Fraga |Brian Roewe

Pope Leo XIV, the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, waves to the crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican after his election as pope May 8, 2025. The new pope was born in Chicago. (CNS/Vatican Media) Although the choice of the name "Leo" may have taken the world by surprise as the American-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost chose his papal name on May 8, church historians familiar with the cardinal's career and the needs of the church were probably not surprised.
White smoke, Black pope? Genealogist says Leo XIV has Louisiana African roots

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Nathaniel Tinner |Heidi Schlumpf |Brian Fraga |Brian Roewe

The Catholic Church has a new leader, with the Augustinian Cardinal Robert Prevost elected as Pope Leo XIV, his chosen name as bishop of Rome. He is the first North American pope and, according to a prominent genealogist, a pope with African-Creole ancestry. The understated candidate triumphed on the second day of voting in a count kept under permanent Vatican seal.
HABEMUS PAPAM: Leo XIV is 1st American pope chosen to lead Catholic Church

1 month ago | globalsistersreport.org | Heidi Schlumpf |Christopher White |Brian Roewe

Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar, is the first American pope in the history of the Roman Catholic church. The former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, who headed the influential Vatican Dicastery for Bishops, walked out onto the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to the cheers of thousands of people gathering for the announcement at 7:15 p.m. Rome time today (May 8).
These cardinals will likely consider the climate when casting votes for the next pope

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Brian Roewe |Soli Salgado

Since the first Earth Day in 1970 and the birth of the modern environment movement, nearly every pope has turned attention toward matters of ecology — whether pollution, biodiversity loss, deforestation or climate change. Pope Paul VI warned humanity's exploitation of Earth's resources "risks provoking a veritable ecological catastrophe."Pope John Paul II stated "the ecological crisis is a moral issue" and warned of the long-term harms of burning fossil fuels.
How Pope Francis holds powerful sway over the 2025 cardinal electors

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Natalia Imperatori-Lee |Michael Sean Winters |Brian Roewe |Heidi Schlumpf

When the 133 cardinal electors enter the Sistine Chapel Wednesday (May 7) to select the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, the influence of Pope Francis will be inside with them — not just in the eight in 10 he named as cardinals, but also in their support for central themes of his 12-year papacy.
Ban on altar girls upsets nuns in Sri Lanka

1 month ago | globalsistersreport.org | Thomas Scaria |Brian Roewe

She said they still sit with the altar boys throughout the Mass and never feel discriminated against. Emidia Benedict, another female Mass reader, told GSR that she loves serving the church as a reader or altar servant. Benedict, dressed in a Mass reader's long-sleeved dress similar to the cassock with pictures of the Eucharist, said everyone has a right and duty to serve the altar in various roles.