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 ...
In 2015, someone gave me a copy of Laudato Si' and it changed my life. I was a junior at a public college, majoring in physics and religious studies, and I was the only Christian I knew who cared ...
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 ...
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 ...
Two new perspectives recently opened up for me in dialogue with bishops and theologians. The first is the sad fact that “Laudato Si’” and its implementation has stalled in the church. The second is ...
With global temperatures crashing through the 1.5C limit agreed at COP21 in Paris 10 years ago, and on the eve of another likely-to-disappoint COP in Belém, Brazil, I took a 45-minute train ride south ...
I had been wanting to write this post for a long time but hadn’t done so out of fear of being controversial. However, lately I have come to the realization that the only one whom I should please, and ...
Pope Francis said Wednesday he will release a follow-up environmental document to the 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’ on Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Speaking at the end of his general ...
MANILA, Philippines — It is revealing—and perhaps poetically fitting—that Pope Francis passed away just two months shy of the 10th anniversary of “Laudato Si,” his landmark 2015 encyclical that ...
The Vatican is placing its flagship sustainability push, the Laudato Si' Action Platform, front and center during Laudato Si' Week 2022, with the hope that a week highlighting the multiyear initiative ...
SYLVANIA, Ohio (WTVG) - A new solar energy project is coming to Sylvania. The Sisters of St. Francis of Sylvania, Ohio, are teaming up with Elevated Energy to create the $5 million project. 13 Action ...
First, there was a workplace accident that occurred a few months ago: a worker, while working on the Vatican construction site of the grandiose Borgo Laudato Sì project, in the extraterritorial area ...