A new restaurant is set to open that serves up fresh local ingredients in an Italian feast inspired by Pope Leo XIV’s Chicago ...
Terrence Thompson's work gives him an up-close view of the impact of climate change and other environmental factors on public health around the world. Becoming a Laudato Si' Animator has helped him ...
The Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development debuted the Laudato Si' Action Platform at a press conference May 25. The website, pictured here, will serve as a hub for Catholic groups ...
Last week the Vatican celebrated “Laudato Si Week” to coincide with the worldwide observance of the centennial of the birth of St. John Paul the Great. This week, for the fifth anniversary of Pope ...
(RNS) — Meeting near the Ugandan capital of Kampala, Catholic environmentalists in Africa marked the 10th anniversary this week (July 23-25) of the publication of Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ encyclical ...
Pope Francis’s encyclical “Laudato Si,” (Praise Be) is displayed prior to the start of a press conference at the Vatican on Thursday, June 18, 2015. Pope Francis called for a bold cultural revolution ...
Editor's note: This story is part of "Growing a Green Church," an ongoing series focused on churches' efforts to steward their buildings and land effectively in the contest of a changing climate. This ...
This year, we mark the 10th anniversary of one of Pope Francis’ most widely read works, “Laudato Si’, On Care for Our Common Home.” Some call the encyclical one of the most profound contributions to ...
When I got wind in the fall of 2014 of a papal encyclical being written on global climate change in anticipation of the Paris Climate Conference the following year, I prayed that Pope Francis would ...
Pope Francis' Laudato Si' offers a contemporary vision of the whole world being wrapped up in, and expressive of, God's unmerited, ongoing offer of love. Paul Melley offers his own musical compostion ...
COMMENTARY: If ‘everything is connected,’ we cannot uphold the Holy Father’s teaching on respecting the integrity of creation while rejecting the givenness of our sexually-differentiated bodies. Pope ...