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1Emma L. Kurnat-Thoma, PhD, MS, RN, FAAN, is an Affiliate at Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS), at Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC, and CEO and Founder of Precision Policy Solutions, LLC. She is an NIH-trained scientist with 28 years of experience in government, science, policy, regulatory, education, health system, and clinical nursing settings. Dr. Kurnat-Thoma has 18 years of Catholic lay leader and liturgical ministry experience, was a volunteer in the U.S. Papal Visit 2015 Canonization Mass of Blessed Junipero Serra, and served in the Catholic Church's 2021-2024 Synod at parish, diocesan, and continental levels.
Abstract:
Climate change is the single largest health threat facing the world today. The purpose of the current article is to help nurses of faith more deeply explore a Catholic Christian response to climate change. Christian moral justice teachings from the Catholic Church's extensive social teaching efforts, including the far-reaching papal encyclicals Laudato Si and Laudato Deum by Pope Francis, and now championed by Pope Leo XIV, are explored.
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