How a Young Activist Is Helping Pope Francis Battle Climate Change

[Lee Cruz]

Molly, the women who is the subject of this report has an office at Quinnipiac Marina, right here in our neighborhood. Although COVID-19 is keeping her and her team away from the office a lot of the work on this project over the past few years was done from Fair Haven. Please read, share and enjoy the earth-saving work done by this young women. She is literally helping to save the planet by helping the Roman Catholic Church manage lands its owns.

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In the summer of 2016, Molly Burhans, a twenty-six-year-old cartographer and environmentalist from Connecticut, spoke at a Catholic conference in Nairobi, and she took advantage of her modest travel stipend to book her return trip through Rome. When she arrived, she got a room in the cheapest youth hostel she could find, and began sending e-mails to Vatican officials, asking if they’d be willing to meet with her. She wanted to discuss a project she’d been working on for months: documenting the global landholdings of the Catholic Church. To her surprise, she received an appointment in the office of the Secretariat of State.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/08/how-a-young-activist-...