A Kentucky priest finds hope amid enveloping global environmental crisis

By: James Bruggers, Inside Climate News

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: April 10, 2026

Words: 2,944

Last Updated: 5 hours, 44 minutes ago

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This story is republished from Inside Climate News.

LOUISVILLE — Father Joe Mitchell, a Passionist priest, returned home here in 2004 to create a nonprofit center that focuses on what he saw as two major disconnects.

One is a gap between people and God. The other is between people and the natural world.

Educated at Bellarmine University, a private, Catholic liberal arts college in Louisville, as well as at the Catholic Theological Union in …

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