Ellen Teague is a London-based freelance Catholic journalist who writes and campaigns on Justice, Peace and Ecology issues. She has contributed to The Tablet, particularly Church in the World, for two decades.

She is a member of the Justice, Peace and Ecology team of the Columban Missionary Society in Britain and edits their newsletter, Vocation for Justice. She also writes regularly for Messenger of St. Anthony International Edition, Redemptorist Publications and Independent Catholic News, collaborating closely with organisations involved in the National Justice and Peace Network of England and Wales (NJPN). She is a popular speaker at diocesan days in England on the 2015 papal encyclical, Laudato Si’ – On Care for our Common Home.

Interest in environmental justice and Creation Theology was sparked while she worked as a volunteer teacher in Nigeria in the 1980s, and witnessing the link between climate change, desertification and poverty. She then worked for CAFOD for eight years, as their campaign coordinator on the ‘Renewing the Earth’ campaign and wrote regularly on development issues. She has produced several study programmes for Christian groups, including, ‘Paint the Church Green’, ‘Our Earth, Our Home – Green assemblies for primary schools’, ‘Between the Flood and the Rainbow – Climate Change and the Church’s Social Teaching’ and the Columban study programme on Laudato Si’. She is an organiser of the annual Columban Schools Journalism Competition. Ellen is also an assessor for the Livesimply Parish Award in England and Wales and provides news stories about award winners.