Pope Francis wrote the first environmental encyclical letter in the history of the Catholic Church. As he was writing it, so many of us who were, and still are, concerned about the sickening state of ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of ...

The new Mass, Pro Custodia Creationis (For the Care of Creation), was initially ordered by Pope Francis, who made the ...

Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass "for the care of creation" after the Vatican announced that a new ...

The Mass, along with other steps, show Pope Leo XIV and the Roman Catholic Church building on the environmental commitment of ...

"The women problem" in Laudato Si' is nothing new. The failure to centralize, regard and learn from women and their experiences abounds in Catholic theology and ecclesial realities. In the next ...

Laudato Si’ Environmental activists carry a banner as they march towards a Roman Catholic Church to coincide with Pope Francis’s encyclical on climate change in June 2015 in Manila, Philippines.

In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis connected the dots between growth, consumption, poverty and climate breakdown.

If “Laudato Si’” leans heavily on critique, it is because it attempts to provoke conscience, not offer a climate policy white paper. Its goal is conversion, not consensus.

“Laudato Si’, praise be you my Lord for Brother Sun,“ said Sister Nancy Linenkugel, Congregational Minister of the Sisters of St. Francis of Sylvania, OH.

The green legacy of Pope Francis is encapsulated in his encyclical Laudato Si’. It is a beacon that upended centuries of Catholic church teaching by framing a dialogue for all of humanity. It ...

His 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’, which described man-made global warming as a threat to life on Earth and called for reducing carbon emissions, significantly developed Catholic teaching on the ...