At its heart, climate change is not about stranded polar bears on rapidly diminishing ice sheets; it is an issue of human life and well-being that hits the vulnerable the hardest. That was the overarching message of a three-person panel discussion at Marymount University in Arlington Oct. 22.

Entitled “Catholics and Climate Change: Faith, Security and Health Perspectives,” the event was in part a response to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ support of a national carbon pollution standard and call to build solutions to climate change on a foundation of economic and social justice.

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