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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV pets a horse during the inauguration of the Borgo Laudato Si project in Castel Gandolfo Sept. 5, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) ROME – Pope Leo XIV inaugurated a new Vatican environmental ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seven years ago on June 18, Pope Francis inspired the world with his sweeping encyclical, “Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home.” The passionate encyclical focuses on the environment and our human ...

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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 ...