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 ...

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 ...

Digging into Laudato Si': As you read the encyclical's introduction, consider how St. Francis lived his life and the inspiration Pope Francis draws from him. Enter your email address and select any of ...

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 ...

Festivities to mark the five-year anniversary of Pope Francis' landmark encyclical on the environment begin this weekend. The theme is "everything is connected," and more than 100 Catholic ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Center for Sustainability and Division of Mission and Ministry are proud to present a Sustainability Action Plan that takes us through 2030, inspired by the Pope's encyclical Laudato Si’. It will ...