Activists eagerly awaited Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’, which was supposed to confront climate-change skeptics and build momentum toward a binding global agreement at the ...

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.

Dilexit nos is Pope Francis' fourth encyclical, following Lumen fidei (June 29, 2013), co-written with Benedict XVI; Laudato ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Jubilee also coincides with the 10th anniversary of “Laudato si’,” Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical on the environment. The coming together of these events kindles in me a feeling of optimism for ...

Francis used the encyclical — titled “Laudato Si’,” or “Praise Be to You” — to highlight the crisis posed by climate change. He placed most of the blame on fossil fuels and human ...

Communities of faith who will bring about change and resolve to care for the earth are needed to help secure the future, ...

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 ...