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 ...

Immaculate Conception Church installed more than 400 rooftop solar panels on several buildings of its campus in Hampton, Va., in 2019. The project was one of several the parish has undertaken in ...

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 ...

When Pope Francis released his encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’,” in 2015, Muslims, Hindus and other faith leaders joined Christians in dialogues in response to the pontiff’s powerful call ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Climate change activists faced trial at the Vatican on Wednesday (May 24) on vandalism charges for gluing themselves to the statue of “Laocoön and His Sons” in the Vatican Museums ...

COMMENTARY: It is essential that this exhortation, which is a different kind of papal document, be read together with the Holy Father’s 2015 encyclical. The environmental exhortation by Pope Francis ...

St. Francis Xavier Church in Moundsville, W.Va., hosted a workshop Aug. 30, 2022, ahead of the Season of Creation to explain the principles of the Catholic Church’s teaching on the environment. Shown ...