On June 18, Pope Francis issued a world-wide encyclical on ecology, environmental destruction, and climate change. The highly anticipated document, intended to spur reflection and action among the ...

Explore Laudato Si', Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment, with this complimentary guide from Jesuit Fr. Tom Reese. To access the guide, sign up for the EarthBeat Weekly e-newsletter.

In 2015, two of the landmark documents of our time were institutionalized: the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’. They represent two different ...

Its full title is "Dilexit Nos - Encyclical Letter on the Human and Divine Love ... 2013), co-written with Benedict XVI; ...

Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos When, in the final chapter of his much-discussed encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis calls for an ecological education, this might seem to be an afterthought ...

Through this multi-year strategic action plan, each group will continue to define and implement unique paths inspired by the Pope’s goals outlined in his groundbreaking 2015 environmental encyclical ...

It is his fourth encyclical, the best-known of which to date is the 2015 “Laudato Si,” or “Praised Be,” which cast care for ...

In the encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis calls us to attend to this dynamic—the destabilization and instrumentalization of our natural world and oppression of those most vulnerable, within a ...

I admit, I have been unable to finish reading the big papal encyclical on the environment and climate change. So if the tone or argument changes radically part-way through, forgive me for getting ...